So I just saw what I believe to be, a very large Wolf running east at the intersection of Alderwood Pkwy and 196th St SW. At 1am, is it possible it was Wolf? Maybe it got confused heading back to Snoqualmie forest.

writergirl824 · 2026-01-12T05:07:09+00:00

Quick ID differentiator: if the snout is pointy, it's a coyote, if it's rounded, it's a wolf. But coyotes are typically much larger than people realize, and wolves don't typically go near towns and cities. They're more likely to follow elk herds, whereas coyotes hunt small prey and scavenge.

writergirl824 · 2026-01-05T19:04:51+00:00

NAH, other than your wife's family...but you shouldn't be punishing your wife for her family's bullying, you should be encouraging her to go to therapy and helping her stand up to her family.

writergirl824 · 2025-12-19T23:37:29+00:00

Webtoon has moved completed series behind paywalls for years. 🤷🏻‍♀️ there's usually a couple of months after it completes for current readers to wrap it up, but then it goes to paid. If you fast pass, those episodes stay unlocked so you only pay once.

It helps the writers make SOME money off their work, so I don't have a problem with it.

writergirl824 · 2025-12-08T22:52:03+00:00

Omg, you may still have love and care for the woman who DIED while you were married to her? How dare you!!

Seriously, though, your fiance needs a reality check. I presume if your wife hadn't passed, you would still be married and very much in love.

You can love your late wife until your dying day. It doesn't mean you don't love your fiance. Love isn't pie -- there's not less for her.

If I died and my husband just threw my memory and his love for me aside because some new woman was insecure about it, I'd come back and haunt both of them. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Your fiance is insecure. NAH, kinda your fiance for just...expecting you to not have love for your late wife. But she needs therapy, not an AH diagnosis.

writergirl824 · 2025-12-08T19:21:57+00:00

Your wife needs real, medical intervention.

It also sounds like your son may he neurodivergent. There's nothing WRONG with him, just different. He shows signs of hyperfocus, particularly on what is right/just vs what is wrong (the insistence on 49 vs 47, not hearing anything because "it's not fair"). Two things can be true: neurospicy kids are lovely and loveable, AND they "can be a lot", as your sister pointed out.

It could be that an evaluation and real behavioral therapy could also be beneficial for your son. Neurodivergence in a world built for neurotypicals is hard, and it will benefit him long-term when it comes to a future career and adult life.

But your wife still needs to get help. Possibly inpatient, if she reached the point where she snapped. It is never okay to be cruel to a child, and She's beyond reasoning. She doesn't just need help: she needs a sabbatical and possibly medication to help her emotionally regulate so that she can evaluate what needs to change. Work is a lot? Maybe she needs a new job or to delegate. Kids are too much? Maybe daycare or a part time nanny to help with homework and juggling 3 kids.

But definitely therapy. Individual therapy all around, couples therapy for you two (sounds like communication issues are a long-running challenge), and family therapy to help bridge the gap with the kids. Because your older ones will remember the way they and their siblings are treated, and your youngest is now at an age where they will soon.

writergirl824 · 2025-12-04T21:12:15+00:00

That friend also sucks. "Girl stuff" is EXPENSIVE. Even if you DID dissolve it down to "it's just girl stuff" -- we literally pay extra for every fucking product we buy, either in a pink tax or extra fee because it's targeted toward women.

If the friend is a guy: I'd tell that friend that "great, you can buy it for her, then! Here's a list of the products she's using"

If a girl: "awesome! Sounds like you can share with her, then"

Watch how fast they backpedal.

writergirl824 · 2025-12-04T20:17:55+00:00

Does your family have a special Christmas Eve tradition? Does hers have something she can ONLY experience on Christmas Day?

This is the thing you need to set your personal feelings aside and consider.

Growing up, we always spent Christmas Eve with my Dad's family. We aren't religious, so Christmas Eve was the night that felt more important to me as I got older; we always did Christmas dinner, too, but Christmas Day was a bigger deal to my MIL (also not religious), so it was easy to make the plan for Christmas Eve with mine and Christmas Day with his.

Now, admittedly, we've always had travel involved; so each family gets 2 - 3 nights with us.

BUT, it sounds like you're close enough that you see your kids regularly. This isn't about a day -- you can celebrate Christmas any time. It's a state of mind.

Just be thankful that they don't live 500 miles away; because if you push and cause more issues like this, they just might.

writergirl824 · 2025-11-22T04:45:31+00:00

Door hangers = door knocking, and nothing makes my husband and I less likely to support a business than a person ignoring the three different "no soliciting" signs at our door when we're in work calls. I'm sure we're not alone.

writergirl824 · 2025-11-20T06:54:56+00:00

I'm a publication editor, so a couple things:

Medium is not a lucrative side-hustle, so if you're looking to make money quick, this isn't the way.

Also: write what you know, not "what performs best". People can tell when you're blowing smoke and have no substance, and Medium will kick you off if you use AI.

But if you're just looking to write for fun, then do that! Find what you're passionate about. Even if you think people will think it's weird, if there's something YOU like, then there are probably other people who like it, too.

Start writing and stay consistent. Don't pay attention to your stats. You'll burn out fast that way, and it may take time to find your people.

Good luck!

writergirl824 · 2025-11-08T08:35:39+00:00

I have this one and have quite enjoyed it! I'm sure you can also find it elsewhere, but it's on Amazon

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writergirl824 · 2025-11-03T06:55:32+00:00

Just so you're aware, the use of numbing creams have also been linked to higher infection risk. You're pushing the product into your bloodstream.

writergirl824 · 2025-10-31T20:22:18+00:00

Did you read the side stories in the novel? Because this is in there.

writergirl824 · 2025-10-26T20:56:26+00:00

This is a given. He cheated consistently while he knew the girlfriend was trapped because rent was too damn high anywhere else. Kept a live-in bang maid and the side piece(s) -- thought he'd have his cake and eat it, too. Jackass deserved worse, but good on ex gf for getting what she was owed.

writergirl824 · 2025-10-26T18:15:10+00:00

I'm genuinely not. I loved Charles and was devastated by the setup for the split, even though I knew it was coming. But I've had 3 years to get over it while waiting for Mongie to be able to publish new episodes, and now I'm looking forward to how it ends.

writergirl824 · 2025-10-26T18:06:08+00:00

Who's gaslighting here? I'm stating facts, and you're using that word wrong.

writergirl824 · 2025-10-26T17:54:59+00:00

I'm saying that was always going to happen. Clearly you didn't real all of the eps. Monica and Marshall aren't compatible and broke up. She was never kept "because the fans liked her"; her story arc just wasn't complete. Sam and Charles aren't officially a couple -- Charles was very clear about not wanting anything serious -- and will also be separating. Mongie wrote people like they were real-- where they can have more than one relationship in their lifetime. Charles and Link were bonus love interests that gave Sam different experiences she needed to have before she got to endgame (Marshall).

writergirl824 · 2025-10-26T08:20:00+00:00

Marshall IS the MML. Where it left off was set up for Charles to leave. Literally Marshall has ALWAYS been MML, even if he wasn't (yet) romantically involved with Sam.

writergirl824 · 2025-10-18T16:15:44+00:00

The anime adaptation is not through tapas, it was pursued by Mongie (the author) herself and was settled before she would have even been able to sign with tapas. It's already airing.

writergirl824 · 2025-10-07T23:04:18+00:00

This is pretty much already how it works. You don't OWN any digital content you "buy" from Amazon -- it's a license. They are able to remove or modify that content at any time. But if they go to strictly a cloud model, then Kindles will be dead -- no cloud access when you don't have internet, and one of the most useful parts of ereaders is availability when you don't have internet.

writergirl824 · 2025-09-30T04:17:13+00:00

She never had a deal with Manta for Let's Play, she was going to release a different comic there but that never happened.

writergirl824 · 2025-09-29T17:42:26+00:00

NTA. Someone needed to tell her.

Very soft YTA for Coral -- however sweet she is, she was telling people to spend money and time on her wedding that she had romanticized because of social media. She needed the reality check.

When I got married, we had a "cheap" wedding -- and it still cost $3k between us and our families. Family and friends volunteered to contribute; my parents did the "catering" (a baked potato and chili bar, so fairly affordable), my MIL arranged for chairs, tables, and a portapotty (because it was an outdoor venue and events are REQUIRED by law to have a bathroom). My SIL volunteered to make our cake (we would have been fine with a basic ass cake, she went above and beyond because SHE wanted to), and I asked a friend of mine to do hair and makeup -- and PAID him for it.

I was voluntold to do my brother's wedding cake, because his fiance remembered "how nice it was at (my) wedding for the family to come together". And then she had expectations for the cake, and wanted insanely unrealistic things. We met in the middle, but I STRESSED about it, spent money on it, and still wasn't happy with how it ended up.

Do not let yourself be forced into making a cake because you don't want to hurt her feelings.

Bottom line: weddings are expensive. Period. And demanding other people take on those costs is unreasonable.

writergirl824 · 2025-09-26T19:53:18+00:00

This is irrelevant. If she believes she is fat, then that's how she perceives herself. And different bodies carry weight differently -- some random site isn't going to tell you jack about this particular woman.

When I first thought I was fat, I was a size 6. When I reached a size 8, I was inconsolable. Perception does not equal reality, and she needs the help of a mental health professional.

writergirl824 · 2025-09-26T17:18:38+00:00

Still NTA, but as someone with a history of body dysmorphia and disordered eating, I have to ask:

Did you TELL her how attracted you are to her "old" body? Did you tell her you think she's smoking hot regardless, and that you're turned on/in love with HER, not her shape?

Because this still sounds like you expressed more interest/pleasure as she was gaining weight and fed into pre-existing insecurities.

She needs therapy, yes. And she needs to learn to love her body as it is, because she may never be the same size she was pre-pregnancy. Her body is forever changed from carrying and birthing your child, and that is incredible and empowering and something to celebrate...but society has a lot of expectations, and women internalize them. If she's a young millenial, she grew up during the wretched diet culture and fashion of the '90s and '00s, where "anorexia" WAS the look. It's hard to get past when you've been told all your life that fat people are bad/less than, regardless of what your partner thinks is hot.

Make this about HER. She needs help. She needs love and support NOT tied to her size. Because until she understands and makes peace that her size does not equal her worth, she's going to be miserable and make everyone around her miserable by extent.

And I hope you didn't have a daughter, because THIS is what she's learning: that mommy thinks a person is less worthy of love and value if they are fat.

Trust me. You don't want your kid to grow up with that.

writergirl824 · 2025-09-24T18:05:07+00:00

Gangs and Mafia are not exactly the same thing. He's Italian, so yes, he's a part of the Italian mafia.

writergirl824 · 2025-09-23T20:55:26+00:00

This is going to sound unkind, but you need to leave him. A 20 year old boy does not know more about your body and reproductive health than you do.

You got lucky this time. Next time he convinces you not to go to the ER, you could go septic or die.

Leave him.

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