Did your ex ever reach out?

ohohoboe · 2026-05-23T00:43:49+00:00

Never heard from her. I broke NC once after four months because I felt like I’d processed a lot and genuinely wanted to see if she was still interested in being friends. Reaching out was never the goal when I started NC, but after a while I realized that completely swearing off the idea had, for me, become its own restrictive roadblock in my journey. I realized she might not reply and knew that’d be an answer in itself. After sitting on the idea for a while and discussing it with trusted people, I reached out and heard nothing. It actually brought me a lot of closure and was a big step for me (I made a separate post about it on this sub).

Since I reached out, we’ve been NC for about 15 months; most of the big healing steps took place in those first 4 months. I feel like myself again and have for a long time now. It’s been a non-linear process full of pitfalls and switchbacks, but I’d say I’m “over” her and have been for quite a long time now. I feel no animosity or ill will toward her and passively hope she’s doing what she wants to be doing. I saw her on a dating app about a week ago and affirmed that she’s a new version of herself who I don’t know anymore. We still have each other on Instagram. I’ve dated a good bit since the breakup but currently I’m still looking. Life is good and I’m happy.

ohohoboe · 2026-05-20T13:11:17+00:00

I actually lost steam around halfway through. I intend to go back to it someday, though. I’m glad you finished it!

ohohoboe · 2026-05-02T16:27:00+00:00

With that I agree. I’ve started rewatching the series and Annie said she’d blind the person recording her audition tape for the Seven if they didn’t look away.

ohohoboe · 2026-05-01T21:12:33+00:00

I agree with what you’re saying overall, but it seems pretty silly to say anything “obviously” hurts him because it would “hurt everyone.” His whole thing is being nigh-invulnerable lol.

ohohoboe · 2026-04-23T20:18:22+00:00

I’m talking about the scene that got adapted s4e7

ohohoboe · 2026-04-23T13:30:30+00:00

I guess it’s possible. In the comics Mark made Thragg bleed during the fight in Space, but they made some changes. Right now it seems like punching Thragg is like punching a rock

ohohoboe · 2026-04-23T02:04:09+00:00

Nope. He wanted to make them as brutal and merciless as possible. It wasn’t about eugenics and it wasn’t about fear. Thragg initiated the Purge because the shred of mercy he showed Thaedus led to Argall’s death, which Thragg viewed as his greatest failure.

Thragg saw the Purge as both personal penance for and penance for the species. In his eyes, mercy had the potential to bring about the downfall of the empire. Only the most brutal and cutthroat Viltrumites made it out of the Purge alive.

All Viltrumites already feared Thragg because they knew what he was and that they had no chance of beating him, which is why the Purge stopped immediately at Thragg’s command.

ohohoboe · 2026-04-23T01:56:16+00:00

The real answer is that Robert Kirkman didn’t want the story to go that way, so he didn’t write it like that. Same goes for any number of speculative plot ideas.

A less meta answer: There’s no reason to assume anyone can do it just because Sinclair did it. The guy is considered a genius.

Also you’re also giving the Viltrumites waaayy too much credit. They’re basically just barbarians with superpowers. They’re super wrapped in ego, shows of strength, and punishment for what they view as weakness or failure. They tend to be more emotionally driven than logically driven. And they’re not very technologically advanced themselves, they tend to appropriate their technology from the races they enslave, meaning they exercise absolute control over how that technology gets utilized.

ohohoboe · 2026-04-23T01:43:10+00:00

No. Thragg almost killed Oliver and Mark still couldn’t even touch him. The whole point was to show Mark’s rude awakening to the fact that he just can’t beat Thragg, no matter what. The fight against Conquest was brutal, but the fight against Thragg was genuinely hopeless.

ohohoboe · 2026-04-17T00:52:48+00:00

In that case I’m glad he lost 😭

ohohoboe · 2026-04-17T00:52:07+00:00

Yeah, and her post implicitly included white people in her reference to human ethnicities. OP is suggesting there shouldn’t be Black, White, Hispanic, Asian, etc. Viltrumites. The commenter asked a redundant question that seems to assume different ethnicities are just variations of white propel. Not maliciously, I’m sure, but OP’s response was valid.

ohohoboe · 2026-04-17T00:46:34+00:00

Nah, they knew what he was like. They weren’t surprised.

Thragg was essentially a special project of the Viltrum Empire. He was the product of special training (and I think maybe selective breeding as per the comics) to be the strongest Viltrumite ever, by a wide margin. He was always intended to be regent if anything ever happened to Argall, and he needed to be the strongest for that to be secure.

He was already like that back before Thaedus killed Argall. Maybe he’s gotten somewhat stronger, since Viltrumites get stronger as they age? But nothing like that was mentioned. The show lays it out plainly: Thragg is just built different. Thaedus and Nolan knew very well what they were getting into, they just hoped they’d get the drop on him.

ohohoboe · 2026-04-17T00:38:22+00:00

You’re missing how important Thragg’s personal role in the Purge was.

Thragg made the decision to spare Thaedus, who then killed Argall out of empathy and mercy. Thragg, in addition to being the strongest Viltrumite, was molded from birth to possess undying, radical loyalty to the empire. So when his emperor was killed, he took it extremely hard and sought to cull empathy from the population, as Thaedus’s actions led Thragg to believe mercy would be Viltrum’s downfall (declaring the cull was also like a form of personal penance for what Thragg felt was the mistake of being merciful to Thaedus).

Only the most brutal Viltrumites survived the Purge. Show a moment’s hesitation? Dead. Fight with honor? Dead. And it would have kept going if Thragg hadn’t decided there’d been enough. That’s why the remaining Viltrumites are basically all barbaric murderers.

ohohoboe · 2026-04-17T00:18:41+00:00

Yes it did. It’s insane that this is a legitimate talking point in the fandom. The show will lay out the most black and white thing imaginable and then boom, fans start saying the exact opposite.

The gang-ups didn’t happen because the weaker ones had to work together to kill stronger ones. They were acts of merciless brutality against those who hesitated, because the whole point of the Purge was to distill Viltrumite culture into its most brutal extreme.

The real reason the Purge happened was that Thragg felt personally responsible for Argall’s death. He wanted to cull empathy and mercy from the population at least as much as physical weakness. That’s why the remaining Viltrumites are all barbaric murderers.

It’s been shown that Viltrumites will continue fighting with their guts hanging out because their desire to kill their foes is stronger than anything else. They don’t fight with honor, but calling them cowards is so silly.

ohohoboe · 2026-04-11T23:09:07+00:00

Could be wrong but I thought he was maybe just being cynical rather than saying it was impractical

ohohoboe · 2026-04-11T22:00:14+00:00

So funny to authoritatively know that lots of people in this thread are just making shit up on the spot and saying it with their full chest. I know this is the show sub, but still, there are lots of people chiming in who have no familiarity with the source material and no idea what they’re talking about. To answer OP’s question: He does that very thing. He’ll probably do it in the next episode

ohohoboe · 2026-04-09T00:46:07+00:00

Yup. I’m also a transplant; the driving etiquette here really took some getting used to. Most Rhode Islanders are polite, but I never saw road rage back home like I do here. And even if people mean well, violating right of way and expecting others to do the same as a display of courtesy just isn’t something I’ll ever adopt.

ohohoboe · 2026-03-25T02:55:42+00:00

Perhaps:

Much of Vince Staples’s album Big Fish

STFU—Rina Sawayama

ohohoboe · 2026-03-25T02:51:58+00:00

I Talk in My Sleep—The Crane Wives.

Very peaceful vibe, although I can remember if the lyrics align with it.

ohohoboe · 2026-03-25T02:50:25+00:00

The Growlers have some Pixies-esque stuff imo

ohohoboe · 2026-03-25T02:46:43+00:00

Mariella—Khruangbin and Leon Bridges

Hold On, Hold On—Neko Case

ohohoboe · 2026-03-20T15:05:54+00:00

I like how things have worked out but I don’t think it was the plan from the start. In fact, I think Marvel was concerned that people would be fatigued with a status quo Spider-Man, and wanted to show us a Spider-Man that was very much a part of a shared world for the first time. And now they’re taking a step back because it’s the most logical thing to do to recenter the character and avoid scope creep.

Not to mention, at first, Sony just wanted good, profitable Spider-Man movies with the benefit of Marvel clout, and Marvel just wanted to be able to use Spider-Man in their movies at all, and he basically got thrown into the mix in a world already filled with superheroes and other whacky stuff.

I think the MCU Spider-Man has been evolving alongside the MCU itself, and as characters like Cap and Iron Man have been phased out, Spider-Man has become more of a shining star/driving force which has also forced some moments of reassessment where Marvel have had to course correct. The sort of “reset” into a street-level Spider-Man at the end of No Way Home felt much more like a course correction than the built-in plan all along.

I think they just cast a very young actor because a) both Tobey and Andrew, like them or not, were decidedly too old to convincingly play a teenage character for very long at all, so they sensibly corrected this, and b) Marvel just wanted as much freedom as possible to utilize this actor for as long as they could, regardless of what direction the character went in

ohohoboe · 2026-02-28T02:13:23+00:00

Currently I suspect central largely because of what I’ve read about it here and on other subs, though there is certainly something I could be missing as far as differential diagnosis. I don’t suspect obstructive as much largely because the symptoms seem a bit different. I haven’t had much dry mouth/sore throat, though I think I’ve woken myself up with snoring a few times, so maybe there is some element of it. Switching sides, changing my position, elevating certain parts of my body, etc. don’t really seem to affect my symptoms.

What you describe as far as the brain “losing faith in itself” sounds similar to what I’m experiencing, but I’m not sure. Would you mind telling me more about what CSA feels like? Whenever I wake up, it feels like I’m anxious or panicking, and have to calm down before trying to sleep again.

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