Easter Outfit Men

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... hair and blue eyes. Her outfit was very appropriate for the... and about in my little Easter egg hunt!" The clown made... blonde hair and a black outfit. A bar of green light... black-haired woman in a magician's outfit. "Zatanna Zatara?" Joker announced. "Oh... neck. The rest of her outfit seemed appropriate for the lavish... journey to find out the men who shot her and get...

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... short, as long as the men wear a tie and jacket ... April, Portugal, Spain and France Easter cruise on QV. A big ... evening - you buy one outfit for that, because that does...

... birthday, not the kind of outfit Vicky was hoping for lol ... in a pitch black ballerina outfit with a stuffed swan head... you're some sort of evil easter bunny?" Missy had to almost... this moment and for the men that were stationed here, still ...

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... Sir Jeralt. "I'll have my men deliver the agreed payment to .... I'm not sure my own men and I could eat all .... A village burns as innocent men and women are cut down. ... in a manner similar to Easter, that both of us would ... dressed up in a bunny outfit. But perfectly practical for combat. ...

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1.Remember way back in October when the Stewart fam bought a million dollar mansion? Remember how at Christmas they said they had no trips at all planned? Do you recall how 6 weeks ago Carlin said to get ready for wall to wall house content? Pepperidge Farm and this sub remember… but the Stew Crew dang sure does not. They have traveled non-stop, the new house is barely mentioned and their current home is just a stop over for laundry and repacking. Izzy, the doodle dog is MIA, perhaps sharing a kennel with the other missing family sidekick… Travis Clark. Carlin and Evan can’t hang out with the Clarks because it is bad for business, so instead they high tail it to Augusta to brown nose their way into the Southern Belle Blogger Bunch. When they touch down at Sophie and Tyler Watts’ corner of the world, it is easy to see where Carlin is getting her “Old South” aesthetic that has suddenly replaced her boho waif vibe. Anyway, surprise, surprise this group of numbnuts has scored tickets to the practice round of the Masters Golf tourney. If you don’t know, it’s a storied event that has deep roots in all the terrible things you think of when you think of Georgia. It’s also known for how exclusive it… was. Augusta National decided to let in influencers this year and now the pimento cheese and the fabled gnome are pedestrian at best. The 5 couples have to split their tickets so the guys go for their photo op and then trade out with the girls. None of this content goes viral and Carlin would much rather just turn the camera on her baby’s feet and let the views rack up. She is never without her camera these days, and everything is content. Layla isn’t pulling in the numbers she once did, even when they film her coated in lipgloss, throwing faces for the masses. Navy Kate is almost exclusively paying the bills at this point. Well, along with breastfeeding, which Carlin has turned into pure fetish content. They are slowly moving away from long form filming, and the vlogs that used to come weekly are now more like every ten days to 2 weeks. They know it’s more work for less pay and there’s more to examine… more chances for the mask to fall. Carlin turns 28 to much fan fair from everyone in her family that she doles out left over PR packages to, and they all make it back home just in time to pack for their next adventure that requires passports for the kids. First grade and Kindergarten sure look differently when you have 2 mortgages to pay… and being a baby in charge of car payments means you better not learn to crawl too soon. 2.If you predicted that Travis Clark would return from his 78 day social media exile on the same day that the Lord and Savior arose from the dead… then you obviously have…. 2 working brain cells. Good gracious these folks are predictable. After 2 months of random Travis body parts, he’s back and he is… shirtless. Dammit. Just when the management company seems to have gotten Lawson Bates to keep a shirt on, here comes Travis Clark, all loved up on Katie with his bare chest and big nips shining. Put that mess away, sir. Katie is on a permanent beach trip, staying in an AirBnB so she can exploit her children in new scenery that hasn’t been sullied by her husband and his mistress. What she didn’t expect was the home’s owner to show up in her comments and Doxx her while offering her a free stay. Who knows how long the Clarks will frolick on the beach before real life comes knocking. Is Travis in school in Orlando? Is he the new apprentice with Webster Heating & Air? Will they return to YouTube? Nobody knows. What we do know is that Katie continues her scorned momma glow up… she’s posing in bathing suits, giving crotch shots with fruit and wearing more eye makeup than RuPaul on the runway. The lawyer is long gone, and has apparently been replaced by a fundie therapist who shows up on Zoom to encourage Katie to smile even if it hurts and to be available whenever and however Travis wants. While these 2 fight their way out of their self created mess, Haley’s Disney Princess reels have a combined 60 million views. It’s obvious who is paying for this lifestyle. Haley sells the God app, shows up in her mom’s razor ads, sleep powder ads and models clothes for a Florida boutique. Katie drops some information about her miscarriage over a necklace link, and it’s clear she wants everyone to know the correct timeline. She says she miscarried in January and the baby was due in August… you do the math. They also take pictures at a new Florida church. I believe part of their running away is because of the church. Travis was in a leadership position at Clear Springs Baptist and that has to be shot all to hell now. If they have to move every time Travis gets angsty, the Clarks will have lived in all 50 states in the first ten years of this doomed pairing. 3.Josie Balka finally broke out of her beige 3 bedroom prison. Alas, it was only to head to a local park to set up for Kelton’s brother’s engagement. Yet another pair of half baked, too young fundies with hormones in over drive headed to an altar. Anyway, Josie filmed the whole thing and seemed giddy with excitement to be doing something besides stirring coffee, changing diapers and pretending to read her Bible. Too soon it was over and she had to head back up the gravel drive to that white painted brick hellscape to shill $50 wipes, Khloe Kardashian athletic wear and post everything with the word “slow” in front of it. She’s all about romanticizing “slow” mornings, “slow” evenings, “slow” breakfasts and “slowing” down. Speaking of slow…. Kelton Balka continues his march to male influencer. Now he’s jumped on to Josie’s fancy baby bottle partnership and he’s doing the voice over work. Supposedly this is so Josie can “sleep in”, but she’s up and going before he’s finished feeding the baby. Something else odd is happening in Balka world… Willow and Hazel seem to be mostly in skirts/dresses these days. At the park, on their bikes, going for walks… the girls are in dresses. It’s no coincidence that Erin always comments on Josie’s content. No matter how much she tries to make us believe that it was her idea to let go of the dolled up sex kitten look and get back to her freckled face basics…. I’m not buying it. Ole KTron and those wooly worms squatting on his forehead rule the roost. He has benched Josie in favor of his own center stage dreams. Alyssa Webster showed up to give us a March wrap up and can you believe that it looked exactly like the January and February recap? They celebrated 2 birthdays with a trip to the coffee shop, a grocery store cake at the kitchen table and those deranged dates with Lurch. There’s no mention of Katie, even though Katie has posted numerous times with Alyssa. Rhett is still wearing the sad hat. Truly a fundie debacle not discussed enough. Those hats toppled the Webster empire and when Alyssa realized no one was giving her money for a dumb hat and that she had been scammed by an online MLM… that’s when she took her leave from social media. Of course the Webster kids are all decked out in matching outfits for Easter. Alyssa forces them to all sit in the dirt under a tree and plaster on that fake smile so she can get her shots. It seems cruel that Allie is 11 and forced to wear the exact same get up that 5 year old Maci has on. Speaking of Allie, her birthday came and went and her mom chose to shout out a fellow cult friend instead of her oldest daughter. I’m sure we will see her awkward date with daddy in the April recap. Hopefully Allie gets her very own trip to the coffee shop. Ellie Bates, meanwhile, has been babysitting up a storm. She’s practically living with Zach and Whit and shows off Josie’s kids and Trace’s kids. The biggest shocker was her posing with Warden’s latest new girlfriend on Easter Sunday. The family is really going hard on promoting this new squeaky clean Warden image… even pretending to like this recent girlfriend. 5.Zach Bates took a “work trip” to California way back in January, and now is when his management company decided he should drop his content. Could it be that Whitney is near delivery? He doesn’t tell us what brand sent him to California, but he shows the management company, shouts them out as the best in the business and then proceeds to absolutely troll the hell out of Lawson by eating at every restaurant in a 4 mile radius of Tiffy’s home. I always knew Zach wanted to be the fundie Guy Fieri and this trip proves it. While he huffs and puffs from one restaurant to the next, Lawson is SCREAMING in his comments “hey, I know that place…. Hey, that’s around the corner from where we stay…. Hey, I should have been with you”. Lawson, you missed the boat. You could have been showcasing California landmarks instead of pretending to be a cowboy and taking pictures of yourself. In any case, back at home, Zach continues to drop reels of the same old food over and over… wanna watch him burn a hot dog? Make a roast? A steak? Chicken salad? There’s about 8 reels for each of the 5 things he knows how to make. Over in his Bates Kitchen, things haven’t changed. He’s still screwing up the recipe, leaving things out and forgetting steps while slinging food all over the kitchen, licking his fingers and talking with his mouth full. He and Whitney both exploit their kids every chance they get… like when they go to Costco where they happily show that they spent $860. Jadon and Lilly are the youngest/cutest/most easy to exploit so they show up the most. Whitney continues to push the same old tired links for powders, teeth whiteners and deodorant and no matter how much Zach wants to be the star…. Folks are tuning in for the kids and Whitney. In that order. 6.Trace and Lydia continue their march to mediocrity. I honestly don’t know what is going on with these 2 but something seems… off. Trace never seems to be around when Lydia is making content, and when he does pop in, he just says the same things over and over. Lydia is constantly at the gym. She sits in the car to tell us that while she was pregnant, Trace decided to start working out and getting fit. She points out that he did this exactly when she couldn’t….and that now that she is working out, he isn’t. That seems to be a running theme. They are on different pages. We don’t see any Easter content beyond pictures at Gil’s church in front of the flowered cross. Their weekly vlogs are just a few minutes long because all of the editing is Lydia’s job. Of course, this gives her an excuse to sit in random coffee shops during the week while Aunt Ellie plays with the kids. Maybe Trace is working a secret job somewhere… bag boy at the local Kroger, perhaps? They do update their followers with big news… they aren’t moving. Shocking, isn’t it? As interest rates soar and their content gets minimal views, they’ve made the decision to stay right where they are. Of course to hear them tell it, it’s because they love where they are and Lydia is scared of building. Interesting… she isn’t scared of one more set of stackable storage bins, is she? They don’t say that staying in their tiny house means no more kids because Trace knows Warden can come over and whip up a triple decker crib, no problem. The highlight of their latest vlog is Ryker’s styrofoam plane getting stuck on yet another roof and Trace yells at Lydia while she attempts to knock it down. They go on a bike ride where she schleps the picnic basket, blanket and the baby and he films them as she leaves him in the dust. Lydia is scratching around looking for reasons to brag on Trace and she decides on…. Making her coffee. Trace stumbles through the recipe for the amazing coffee he makes Lydia while admitting that it isn’t usually sweet enough and then she jumps in to give the exact recipe and steps. You know, for the coffee that TRACE makes. Mmmmhmmm. Lydia turns 28 and that gives them reason to film a fake surprise get away to luxurious, exclusive Myrtle Beach. While in Dirty Myrtle they make lots of couples content and one would hope this vacation doesn’t lead to Trace fulfilling that promise of giving KJ grandbaby number 41. 7.Erin and Chad Paine have whipped enough beef fat to afford a little vacation to Jekyll Island…or maybe it’s the love offerings that paid for the trip. In any case… they went somewhere, and Addee is with them. I guess they couldn’t hitch their wagons to Tori and Bobby’s vacay this year what with the new Smith kid making his debut. For Easter, Erin forced all of the kids to stand around her keyboard and maul a hymn. Even Callie had to join in, and you realize that she could be Erin’s daughter….actually, KJ would be just fine with that. Speaking of Kelly, she helps Erin do a little marketing by filming herself using Erin’s skincare in some hovel of a bathroom that must be the big house. All of the siblings are being forced to coat themselves in Erin’s grease so Chad doesn’t have to get a real job. Erin returns to YouTube to purr about her perfect life and give advice to all of us less thans. She tells us she never raises her voice, keeps the spark alive by looking into Chad’s eyes and holding his hand and says the secret to being perfect is to read your Bible. She recites her lines like a good little Gothardist and flounces off to pretend educate her children in the Florida sun. 8.Michael and Brandon celebrate Easter with the foster boys. She shows off their Easter outfits and they are the same thing being worn by 85 year old men. Fundies do love to dress a baby up like a little old man. It’s been a while since Michael has said the exact same thing over and over on social media, so while they are on a short road trip, she puts out a question and answer box so people can harass her about adoption, conception and her family. The only thing new - Michael mentions the birth parents of the foster children. She says they are “getting the help they need”. She is planning the baby’s first birthday party, and also plans to make more blankets for her shop. She says if adoption was an option, they would adopt…. But it obviously isn’t an option now because she twice mentions the birth parents who are obviously still in the picture. 9.Lawson and Tiffy have decided to milk a solid month of content out of this one bedroom condo they purchased in San Diego. They haven’t been to the place in almost 4 months and Tiffy calls it a “longer term rental” so how much time could they possibly spend there? Lawson prances around while Warden and JebJud do all of the work and Tiffy seems to think it’s a flex that her home was remodeled by a 22 year old and his 16 year old helper. God help the renters. In real time, they seem to be all alone for Easter in Nashville. Her parents aren’t around, we don’t see Callie and they don’t travel to the big house. They must be lost without their keepers. Tiffy films Will running around half dressed a lot and they have to cut a knot out of Teddy’s long hair. Guess he spends a lot of time flat on his back. Of course Lawson Ai’s himself into another background so he can wail and warble that same old hymn for an Easter post. Also… he’s back at the pregnancy baiting. Theodore is 4 months old. It’s enough already. 10.Bits and Bytes…Kelly Joe doesn’t mention Allie’s 11th birthday making it a clean sweep of all 5 of Alyssa’s kids getting nothing from Granny on IG… In other Kelly news, she appears to babysit for Josie. It’s unheard of for KJ to keep her grandkids without a sister there to do the heavy lifting, Kelton must have had to payoff a credit card or something… Alyssa attempts to get Disney’s attention by tagging them and asking for a free cruise on Katie’s post…Erin’s daughter Everly turns 8 and her personality is “likes animals”…Zade asks Carlin to DRAW his family’s names for him. Heavy subtitles are needed and the reel doesn’t come close to matching Navy’s views… Gil completed the roof on the big house and KJ complimented him by telling everyone how it was rotted, leaking and how badly needed it was. Have a great week friends! Summer days are back in my part of the world, 90 and sunshine all week! submitted by /u/dixcgirl10 to r/BatesSnark [link] [comments]

1.Remember way back in October when the Stewart fam bought a million dollar mansion? Remember how at Christmas they said they had no trips at all planned? Do you recall how 6 weeks ago Carlin said to get ready for wall to wall house content? Pepperidge Farm and this sub remember… but the Stew Crew dang sure does not. They have traveled non-stop, the new house is barely mentioned and their current home is just a stop over for laundry and repacking. Izzy, the doodle dog is MIA, perhaps sharing a kennel with the other missing family sidekick… Travis Clark. Carlin and Evan can’t hang out with the Clarks because it is bad for business, so instead they high tail it to Augusta to brown nose their way into the Southern Belle Blogger Bunch. When they touch down at Sophie and Tyler Watts’ corner of the world, it is easy to see where Carlin is getting her “Old South” aesthetic that has suddenly replaced her boho waif vibe. Anyway, surprise, surprise this group of numbnuts has scored tickets to the practice round of the Masters Golf tourney. If you don’t know, it’s a storied event that has deep roots in all the terrible things you think of when you think of Georgia. It’s also known for how exclusive it… was. Augusta National decided to let in influencers this year and now the pimento cheese and the fabled gnome are pedestrian at best. The 5 couples have to split their tickets so the guys go for their photo op and then trade out with the girls. None of this content goes viral and Carlin would much rather just turn the camera on her baby’s feet and let the views rack up. She is never without her camera these days, and everything is content. Layla isn’t pulling in the numbers she once did, even when they film her coated in lipgloss, throwing faces for the masses. Navy Kate is almost exclusively paying the bills at this point. Well, along with breastfeeding, which Carlin has turned into pure fetish content. They are slowly moving away from long form filming, and the vlogs that used to come weekly are now more like every ten days to 2 weeks. They know it’s more work for less pay and there’s more to examine… more chances for the mask to fall. Carlin turns 28 to much fan fair from everyone in her family that she doles out left over PR packages to, and they all make it back home just in time to pack for their next adventure that requires passports for the kids. First grade and Kindergarten sure look differently when you have 2 mortgages to pay… and being a baby in charge of car payments means you better not learn to crawl too soon. 2.If you predicted that Travis Clark would return from his 78 day social media exile on the same day that the Lord and Savior arose from the dead… then you obviously have…. 2 working brain cells. Good gracious these folks are predictable. After 2 months of random Travis body parts, he’s back and he is… shirtless. Dammit. Just when the management company seems to have gotten Lawson Bates to keep a shirt on, here comes Travis Clark, all loved up on Katie with his bare chest and big nips shining. Put that mess away, sir. Katie is on a permanent beach trip, staying in an AirBnB so she can exploit her children in new scenery that hasn’t been sullied by her husband and his mistress. What she didn’t expect was the home’s owner to show up in her comments and Doxx her while offering her a free stay. Who knows how long the Clarks will frolick on the beach before real life comes knocking. Is Travis in school in Orlando? Is he the new apprentice with Webster Heating & Air? Will they return to YouTube? Nobody knows. What we do know is that Katie continues her scorned momma glow up… she’s posing in bathing suits, giving crotch shots with fruit and wearing more eye makeup than RuPaul on the runway. The lawyer is long gone, and has apparently been replaced by a fundie therapist who shows up on Zoom to encourage Katie to smile even if it hurts and to be available whenever and however Travis wants. While these 2 fight their way out of their self created mess, Haley’s Disney Princess reels have a combined 60 million views. It’s obvious who is paying for this lifestyle. Haley sells the God app, shows up in her mom’s razor ads, sleep powder ads and models clothes for a Florida boutique. Katie drops some information about her miscarriage over a necklace link, and it’s clear she wants everyone to know the correct timeline. She says she miscarried in January and the baby was due in August… you do the math. They also take pictures at a new Florida church. I believe part of their running away is because of the church. Travis was in a leadership position at Clear Springs Baptist and that has to be shot all to hell now. If they have to move every time Travis gets angsty, the Clarks will have lived in all 50 states in the first ten years of this doomed pairing. 3.Josie Balka finally broke out of her beige 3 bedroom prison. Alas, it was only to head to a local park to set up for Kelton’s brother’s engagement. Yet another pair of half baked, too young fundies with hormones in over drive headed to an altar. Anyway, Josie filmed the whole thing and seemed giddy with excitement to be doing something besides stirring coffee, changing diapers and pretending to read her Bible. Too soon it was over and she had to head back up the gravel drive to that white painted brick hellscape to shill $50 wipes, Khloe Kardashian athletic wear and post everything with the word “slow” in front of it. She’s all about romanticizing “slow” mornings, “slow” evenings, “slow” breakfasts and “slowing” down. Speaking of slow…. Kelton Balka continues his march to male influencer. Now he’s jumped on to Josie’s fancy baby bottle partnership and he’s doing the voice over work. Supposedly this is so Josie can “sleep in”, but she’s up and going before he’s finished feeding the baby. Something else odd is happening in Balka world… Willow and Hazel seem to be mostly in skirts/dresses these days. At the park, on their bikes, going for walks… the girls are in dresses. It’s no coincidence that Erin always comments on Josie’s content. No matter how much she tries to make us believe that it was her idea to let go of the dolled up sex kitten look and get back to her freckled face basics…. I’m not buying it. Ole KTron and those wooly worms squatting on his forehead rule the roost. He has benched Josie in favor of his own center stage dreams. Alyssa Webster showed up to give us a March wrap up and can you believe that it looked exactly like the January and February recap? They celebrated 2 birthdays with a trip to the coffee shop, a grocery store cake at the kitchen table and those deranged dates with Lurch. There’s no mention of Katie, even though Katie has posted numerous times with Alyssa. Rhett is still wearing the sad hat. Truly a fundie debacle not discussed enough. Those hats toppled the Webster empire and when Alyssa realized no one was giving her money for a dumb hat and that she had been scammed by an online MLM… that’s when she took her leave from social media. Of course the Webster kids are all decked out in matching outfits for Easter. Alyssa forces them to all sit in the dirt under a tree and plaster on that fake smile so she can get her shots. It seems cruel that Allie is 11 and forced to wear the exact same get up that 5 year old Maci has on. Speaking of Allie, her birthday came and went and her mom chose to shout out a fellow cult friend instead of her oldest daughter. I’m sure we will see her awkward date with daddy in the April recap. Hopefully Allie gets her very own trip to the coffee shop. Ellie Bates, meanwhile, has been babysitting up a storm. She’s practically living with Zach and Whit and shows off Josie’s kids and Trace’s kids. The biggest shocker was her posing with Warden’s latest new girlfriend on Easter Sunday. The family is really going hard on promoting this new squeaky clean Warden image… even pretending to like this recent girlfriend. 5.Zach Bates took a “work trip” to California way back in January, and now is when his management company decided he should drop his content. Could it be that Whitney is near delivery? He doesn’t tell us what brand sent him to California, but he shows the management company, shouts them out as the best in the business and then proceeds to absolutely troll the hell out of Lawson by eating at every restaurant in a 4 mile radius of Tiffy’s home. I always knew Zach wanted to be the fundie Guy Fieri and this trip proves it. While he huffs and puffs from one restaurant to the next, Lawson is SCREAMING in his comments “hey, I know that place…. Hey, that’s around the corner from where we stay…. Hey, I should have been with you”. Lawson, you missed the boat. You could have been showcasing California landmarks instead of pretending to be a cowboy and taking pictures of yourself. In any case, back at home, Zach continues to drop reels of the same old food over and over… wanna watch him burn a hot dog? Make a roast? A steak? Chicken salad? There’s about 8 reels for each of the 5 things he knows how to make. Over in his Bates Kitchen, things haven’t changed. He’s still screwing up the recipe, leaving things out and forgetting steps while slinging food all over the kitchen, licking his fingers and talking with his mouth full. He and Whitney both exploit their kids every chance they get… like when they go to Costco where they happily show that they spent $860. Jadon and Lilly are the youngest/cutest/most easy to exploit so they show up the most. Whitney continues to push the same old tired links for powders, teeth whiteners and deodorant and no matter how much Zach wants to be the star…. Folks are tuning in for the kids and Whitney. In that order. 6.Trace and Lydia continue their march to mediocrity. I honestly don’t know what is going on with these 2 but something seems… off. Trace never seems to be around when Lydia is making content, and when he does pop in, he just says the same things over and over. Lydia is constantly at the gym. She sits in the car to tell us that while she was pregnant, Trace decided to start working out and getting fit. She points out that he did this exactly when she couldn’t….and that now that she is working out, he isn’t. That seems to be a running theme. They are on different pages. We don’t see any Easter content beyond pictures at Gil’s church in front of the flowered cross. Their weekly vlogs are just a few minutes long because all of the editing is Lydia’s job. Of course, this gives her an excuse to sit in random coffee shops during the week while Aunt Ellie plays with the kids. Maybe Trace is working a secret job somewhere… bag boy at the local Kroger, perhaps? They do update their followers with big news… they aren’t moving. Shocking, isn’t it? As interest rates soar and their content gets minimal views, they’ve made the decision to stay right where they are. Of course to hear them tell it, it’s because they love where they are and Lydia is scared of building. Interesting… she isn’t scared of one more set of stackable storage bins, is she? They don’t say that staying in their tiny house means no more kids because Trace knows Warden can come over and whip up a triple decker crib, no problem. The highlight of their latest vlog is Ryker’s styrofoam plane getting stuck on yet another roof and Trace yells at Lydia while she attempts to knock it down. They go on a bike ride where she schleps the picnic basket, blanket and the baby and he films them as she leaves him in the dust. Lydia is scratching around looking for reasons to brag on Trace and she decides on…. Making her coffee. Trace stumbles through the recipe for the amazing coffee he makes Lydia while admitting that it isn’t usually sweet enough and then she jumps in to give the exact recipe and steps. You know, for the coffee that TRACE makes. Mmmmhmmm. Lydia turns 28 and that gives them reason to film a fake surprise get away to luxurious, exclusive Myrtle Beach. While in Dirty Myrtle they make lots of couples content and one would hope this vacation doesn’t lead to Trace fulfilling that promise of giving KJ grandbaby number 41. 7.Erin and Chad Paine have whipped enough beef fat to afford a little vacation to Jekyll Island…or maybe it’s the love offerings that paid for the trip. In any case… they went somewhere, and Addee is with them. I guess they couldn’t hitch their wagons to Tori and Bobby’s vacay this year what with the new Smith kid making his debut. For Easter, Erin forced all of the kids to stand around her keyboard and maul a hymn. Even Callie had to join in, and you realize that she could be Erin’s daughter….actually, KJ would be just fine with that. Speaking of Kelly, she helps Erin do a little marketing by filming herself using Erin’s skincare in some hovel of a bathroom that must be the big house. All of the siblings are being forced to coat themselves in Erin’s grease so Chad doesn’t have to get a real job. Erin returns to YouTube to purr about her perfect life and give advice to all of us less thans. She tells us she never raises her voice, keeps the spark alive by looking into Chad’s eyes and holding his hand and says the secret to being perfect is to read your Bible. She recites her lines like a good little Gothardist and flounces off to pretend educate her children in the Florida sun. 8.Michael and Brandon celebrate Easter with the foster boys. She shows off their Easter outfits and they are the same thing being worn by 85 year old men. Fundies do love to dress a baby up like a little old man. It’s been a while since Michael has said the exact same thing over and over on social media, so while they are on a short road trip, she puts out a question and answer box so people can harass her about adoption, conception and her family. The only thing new - Michael mentions the birth parents of the foster children. She says they are “getting the help they need”. She is planning the baby’s first birthday party, and also plans to make more blankets for her shop. She says if adoption was an option, they would adopt…. But it obviously isn’t an option now because she twice mentions the birth parents who are obviously still in the picture. 9.Lawson and Tiffy have decided to milk a solid month of content out of this one bedroom condo they purchased in San Diego. They haven’t been to the place in almost 4 months and Tiffy calls it a “longer term rental” so how much time could they possibly spend there? Lawson prances around while Warden and JebJud do all of the work and Tiffy seems to think it’s a flex that her home was remodeled by a 22 year old and his 16 year old helper. God help the renters. In real time, they seem to be all alone for Easter in Nashville. Her parents aren’t around, we don’t see Callie and they don’t travel to the big house. They must be lost without their keepers. Tiffy films Will running around half dressed a lot and they have to cut a knot out of Teddy’s long hair. Guess he spends a lot of time flat on his back. Of course Lawson Ai’s himself into another background so he can wail and warble that same old hymn for an Easter post. Also… he’s back at the pregnancy baiting. Theodore is 4 months old. It’s enough already. 10.Bits and Bytes…Kelly Joe doesn’t mention Allie’s 11th birthday making it a clean sweep of all 5 of Alyssa’s kids getting nothing from Granny on IG… In other Kelly news, she appears to babysit for Josie. It’s unheard of for KJ to keep her grandkids without a sister there to do the heavy lifting, Kelton must have had to payoff a credit card or something… Alyssa attempts to get Disney’s attention by tagging them and asking for a free cruise on Katie’s post…Erin’s daughter Everly turns 8 and her personality is “likes animals”…Zade asks Carlin to DRAW his family’s names for him. Heavy subtitles are needed and the reel doesn’t come close to matching Navy’s views… Gil completed the roof on the big house and KJ complimented him by telling everyone how it was rotted, leaking and how badly needed it was. Have a great week friends! Summer days are back in my part of the world, 90 and sunshine all week! submitted by /u/dixcgirl10 to r/BringingUpBates [link] [comments]

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It bothers me how few people know about this and how utterly glossed over it was in the media. Maybe it has since gained traction now that cracks are starting to form in Taylor’s facade. Idk. I brought this up in a previous post about instances of Taylor’s racism, but this specific instance really gets lost and it’s troubling. If I can make more people aware about it, I want to. Basically the situation was that Taylor took to Twitter (at the time) to bemoan that a line in the show (“You go through men faster than Taylor Swift”) was misogynistic and degrading towards hard-working women, despite her past romances being a major source of profit for her. Her tweet is below. Hey Ginny & Georgia, 2010 called and it wants its lazy, deeply sexist joke back. How about we stop degrading hard working women by defining this horse shit as FuNnY. Also, @netflix after Miss Americana this outfit doesn’t look cute on you 💔 Happy Women’s History Month I guess. Interestingly, 2010 was the exact year that Taylor released a song with the lyrics “she’s better known for the things that she does on the mattress” about a woman who dated her ex, with little Easter-egg hints (and heavy rumors) pointing to who she was singing about. So according to her self-serving tweet, slut shaming was in vogue back then, I guess? As if it isn’t just objectively wrong. 🤦‍♀️ She really thinks activism is a bandwagon to hop on and off of according to what suits her. Anyway, when this happened, it was 2021. This was after her “political awakening” and “muzzle off” moment in Miss Americana. The actress who delivered the line, Antonia Gentry, received so much racist hate and so many threats. She publically issued a statement that is widely interpreted as alluding to that incident. It’s extremely unnerving how it feels like people are not allowed to directly call Swift out in the entertainment industry. Like doing so would be the death of their careers. And the thing is, there’s been truth to that. There’s a power imbalance in every feud Taylor finds herself in and she abuses it. I’m hopeful though. I guess my question, if I have one, is: do you all have hope too in Taylor getting exposed? You can tell people (Billie, Calvin Harris, Katy Perry, and Demi Lovato included) have made attempts to call her out without doing so directly. They have alluded to her pattern of siccing the fans on her foes and using activism for marketing just to abandon it when it’s someone else getting the hate, but even in these cases it’s so rare for someone to say anything direct because Taylor holds too much power. We also see that in Olivia Rodrigo’s “Disney-PR-trained” (to quote isittherightword, whose content I recommend) responses about Taylor. Taylor is legitimately a huge problem. I know we hee-hee-ha-ha about her fuckass bangs, etc. on here, but she’s legitimately a frightening person who has a hold on the media, the industry, and an unfortunate influence on the American (and maybe even international) white woman. WW need to be better and we need to be intersectional. (At the risk of overexplaining, Intersectional means recognizing that the struggle of a woman who exists at the intersection of multiple systems of oppression, ie racism, sexism, transphobia, has distinct challenges and the struggle is not the same for all of us, even within feminism. What a white woman faces is not the same as what a Black woman faces. Or a Trans woman. Or a Black Trans woman. Really “feminism” is painting with too wide of a brush when historically it’s been a white-centered movement, when the focus should be on the intersections. So, to nobody’s shock, Taylor never addressed this incident. It really is a glaring example of how self serving she is and how she really just dons the activism cloak when she can walk away looking good from it. (This clapback at Netflix was bizarrely cast by many white women as some sort of girlboss heroism. They completely ignored how it affected Antonia.) And to this day, it’s painful to see how many white women, even those I consider more left than “Liberal”, think she’s doing good things for women. No. She’s doing good things for her empire, which is itself a harmful thing. In the process, and I say this as someone who was a fan in my teens, she seems hollow. You can’t convince me that the Taylors and the Trumps of the world are not miserable, insecure, sad people. She and that man really do have so much in common. The thing is, if people with influence started speaking up in large numbers, it would start a wave. I don’t understand why they don’t do that. Isolated, I understand not speaking up. But why don’t more people in the industry say something? If you have any ability to read between the lines you can see that she’s not well-liked. What kind of hold does she have on them? Antonia Gentry was just starting her career. Taylor has victimized herself for far less. I am just so angry that this situation, Ana’s death, what she did to Olivia, her bullying of Kayla Nicole, Katy Perry, Camilla Belle, and the list goes on, and the countless other instances that show her character, are not amplified in the media. Her PR team does a lot of burying. Now she’s trying to position herself and Travis as American Royalty using her tried-and-true “not like other girls” trope, casting his ex, a Black woman, as the “other girl”. That’s inherently problematic. She always toes the line right at plausible deniability so her fans can still say “she didn’t mean it” or “she didn’t know”, which is wild because her team keeps such a tight finger on her reputation’s pulse and any mention of her name. It makes me so sick. I really think her team gets things scrubbed from the media, as comments I made years ago were removed from various platforms and we know her team loves cease-and-desists. As a former fan, I have watched her turn into a villain. (My big “oh shit” moment came when the blogger Meghan Herning wrote a blog post calling on her to denounce white supremacy when The Daily Stormer (Alt-Right publication) insisted she was a white supremacist. Instead, I’ll give you one guess who she sent the cease-and-desist to, and it wasn’t to the white supremacists. ) I’ve said this before on this sub but I immediately dragged all of my merch to the curb so someone could get it out of my house. It was a real wake-up call for me as a white person when so few fans cared about this. I guess after the Wildest Dreams music video, I shouldn’t have been surprised. Thanks for indulging the rant if you’ve read this far. I just really feel like we need to maintain our focus on why she’s bad beyond just “fuckass bangs, no talent.” And like I said, I’d love to know if you all think cracks will continue to form in her uber-curated facade and more and more people will see the reality of who she is. (Is there hope? I’m so ready for this downfall. 😭) As far as my “why” for writing this long ass post, I genuinely think she plays a role as a force that keeps white women unchallenged, and ultimately, that drags us further from any anti-racist or intersectional understanding. I’m so sick of the glazing of someone who is very clearly a bad person. submitted by /u/DirectionLimp2745 to r/travisandtaylor [link] [comments]

Hi everyone! I’ve been lurking in this sub for a while, constantly bouncing between being a gaylor" and a hetlor. For a long time, I was somewhere in the middle. Sometimes I’d think, “How did I not realize she isn’t straight?” and other times I’d heavily question the theories, especially when she got engaged last year. Anyway, I’m posting this because I am now 100% convinced she is into women, or at least has been in the past. As a straight woman, I’m not as well-versed in queer history, so these thoughts are purely based on her music and public information. This is my take: - I think Taylor is bi. I believe some of her exes were definitely PR (Calvin Harris and Tom Hiddleston, imo), but not all of them. Not sure about joe and matty. Matty could be real though. - I don't think Karlie and Taylor are still together. Karlie has three kids with Josh now, and I just don't see late stage kaylor being a thing. Taylor clearly still writes about her, which shows how deep the impact was, but without concrete evidence of them even being in the same room I think that chapter is closed. My theory is they were on-and-off from early 2014 to 2016. If Joe was really PR, they might have been in a "situationship" until Karlie married Josh in 2018. - I’m certain she dated (or at least had affairs with) karlie kloss and dianna agron. To me, the Red era and half of 1989 feel dedicated to dianna, while the other half of 1989, reputation, and parts of folklore/evermore belong to karlie. And these are the evidences that convinced me: the song maroon!!!!!!!!!: MEN'S LIPS ARENT MAROON. ALSO SHE PLAYED IT ON KARLIE'S BIRTHDAY. Not to mention Karlie had her own room in Taylor’s ny apartment (the "roommate’s cheap-ass screw-top rosé" lyric). There are too many "coincidences" here. If you look at them individually it might be just a coincidence but combine them altogether... religious and secrecy themes throughout her discography..Songs like dancing with our hands tied, I know places, guilty as sin, Ivy, illicit affairs, high infidelity, false god, and don't blame me. I listen to many many artists but none of them use this specific "our love is a sinful secret, us against the world" trope as much as she does. the yntcd wig. A bi-colored wig in a music video where almost everyone else is queer? I don't always buy the "her outfit is gay" argument, but Context matters. that was loud.. releasing "ME!" (in all caps) on lesbian visibility day is absolutely wild. it’s the one thing that makes me wonder if she’s actually a lesbian rather than bi, or if she was just trying to signal something big. new year's day performance. The intentional pronoun change to "her" in that one live performance is so evident. the proud bi bracelet!! She literally posted it on her ig with a rainbow filter! Other things I consider plausible! - christian siriano’s tiktok - olivia rodrigo’s "rainbow guitar strings" comment. - the silence in the jack antonoff podcast.wth jack - the song lavender haze. I didn't realize the historical depth of the color lavender until recently. It just feels very intentional of her to pick the color 'lavender' when she couldve gone with..idk. violet. crimson. golden. so many colors and yet she chooses lavender! And here are things I feel like a reach: - Flannels and shirts. Straight girls wear those too! I don't think her fashion sense is a "smoking gun." - her 'hand gestures' while performing...honestly, I think this is one of the few theories that make the community look bad. I don't think she's making graphic gestures onstage; it feels disrespectful to suggest it. - the eye theory. A bit of a stretch for me. Finally, here are some lingering questions that haunts me in my sleep these days😂 - will she ever officially come out? - If her current relationship with travis is PR, why go this far? Why cant she just come out like Billie Eilish? - when exactly did taylor and karlie call it quits? - If she really planned to come out during the Lover era, what actually stopped her? After listening to her for 15 years, so many songs finally make sense. I used to wonder why she’d "fall from grace" to touch joe's face, or why she was singing about maroon lips. Once I viewed them through a queer lens, the music felt so much more nuanced! I’ve come to love her work even more now!! Her recent album was underwhelming for me in terms of production and lyricsm (I miss ttpd. Lyrical masterpiece) so I'm hoping ts13 is better than the previous one Also, I don't really buy the "people shouldn't speculate on sexualities" argument. As long as you're open to other opinions, respect the possibility that she could be straight, and aren't being invasive (like commenting weird stuff on karlie kloss’s Instagram), it's fine. I myself believe wholeheartedly that she is bisexual, but she could be a lesbian, or even straight. Nobody knows until she speaks up. Taylor has always left easter eggs for fans to speculate on.. I don't see why her sexuality should be the only "off-limits" subject.🤷‍♀️ submitted by /u/Hefty-Peanut3079 to r/GaylorSwift [link] [comments]

We got a good look at most of the Masquerade Ball looks for each of the major characters on the show and now we can get a better look at their inspirations and influences. The characters are either wearing costumes based off of characters from books, games or real life people. Half of the looks are book accurate to what the characters wore and the other half is the show taking creative liberties. EDIT: Some of the theories have either been debunked or expanded upon since new information came in. Eloise as *Joan of Arc* - Eloise dressing up as Joan of Arc is so on brand for her character and also very book accurate as this was the costume she wore to the Masquerade. Joan of Arc is a national heroine of France. She was a peasant girl who, believing that she was acting under divine guidance, led the French army in a momentous victory at Orléans in 1429 that repulsed an English attempt to conquer France during the Hundred Years' War. She was regarded as one of the spearheads of early feminism which fits Eloise's character to a T. John and Francesca as *Black and White Swans* - John and Francesca dress up as Black and White swans and there's no specific story to draw from to this but there is a popular symbolism to black and white swans called *The Black Swan Theory*. ​The black swan theory or theory of black swan events is a metaphor that describes an event that comes as a surprise, has a major effect, and is often inappropriately rationalized after the fact with the benefit of hindsight. The term arose from a Latin expression which was based on the presumption that black swans did not exist. The expression was used in the original manner until around 1697 when Dutch mariners saw black swans living in Australia. After this, the term was reinterpreted to mean an unforeseen and consequential event. This hints and foreshadows what will happen in the future for John and Francesca's characters when John... dies tragically and unexpectedly and suddenly without any warning. UPDATE: The costume designer, John Glaser said in a recent interview that Francesca and John do not dress up in a particular costume. They just arrive as themselves so I head canon it's the black and white swan haha. Hyacinth as *Harlequin* - Hyacinth doesn't attend the Masquerade Ball in the books as she is too young so this was a surprise but based on her mask she is dressed as a Harlequin. A harlequin is a classic, mischievous comic character from Italian theater (Commedia dell'arte), known for a colorful, patched, diamond-patterned costume, a black half-mask, and playful, acrobatic antics, evolving from a cunning servant to a zany jester, also referring to their distinctive pattern or certain animals/insects. They dress in diamond patterned masks and outfits. Hyacinth is notorious for being an entertainer and a mischievous Bridgerton. The diamond patterns on her mask could also hint at her becoming the diamond in her season and her attending the Masquerade could mean she's preparing to pee debut into society OR she snuck into the Masquerade undetected which is very Hyacinth. Violet as *Titania, Queen of Faires* - Based on the William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream. In the play, she is the Queen of the fairies and wife of the Fairy King, Oberon. The pair are depicted as powerful natural spirits who together guarantee the fertility or health of the human and natural worlds.She is attended to by many other fairies and seems to be completely in charge of her life. Maybe this symbolizes a turning point in Violet's life as she's now taking back control of her romantic life. Colin and Penelope as *Pirates* - Colin and Penelope dress up in a couples pirate costume which is apparently a running joke in the Polin fandom because people refer to Colin as Pirate Colin because he usually dresses like one on the show whenever he's back from his travels. Anyway, in various literature, the pirates may be represented as having fallen, perhaps resembling a "respectable" person in some way. Pirate characters generally quest for buried treasure, plundered riches in treasure chests. Pirates' treasure is usually gold or silver, or diamonds. This fits their characters as Colin is a traveler and Penelope is a gossip columnist who searches for news and also seeks the new diamond of the season. ​ Queen Charlotte as *Queen of Hearts* - Based on the deck of cards and NOT Alice in Wonderland, Queen of Hearts symbolizes love which I guess fits Charlotte as she's a notorious matchmaker and seeking to find the perfect match in the ton. She also chose it because she can still dress in costume but still be herself. Rosamund as *Marie Antoinette* - Another book accurate costume is Rosamund Li (Reiling) dressing up as Marie Antoinette. Marie was married to the future King Louis XVI of France when she was just fourteen. Marie Antoinette (1755-1793) was the Austrian-born Queen of France, wife of King Louis XVI, known for her lavish lifestyle. Marie Antoinette soon became unpopular, gaining a reputation for excessive spending on fashion, gambling and other indulgences and as a symbol of the monarchy's excess, ultimately leading to her execution by guillotine during the French Revolution. She was also penpals with Queen Charlotte so I wonder if the show will connect those two together. Maybe Rosamund dresses up as Marie Antoinette to impress the Queen. Also if you notice she's wearing a replica of one of Marie's infamous necklaces. Posy as *A Mermaid* - One of the famous folktale mythical creatures, the mermaid costume Posy wears is another book accurate adaptation on the show as Posy famously rocked up in a mermaid frock to the ball. ​In some cultures, the mermaid signifies life and fertility within the ocean. In others, she embodies the destructive nature of the water, luring sailors to their deaths — serving as an omen for storms, unruly seas and disaster. But they also mean change. These aquatic beings symbolize the journey of self-discovery and the transformative power that lies within us. Just as mermaids transform from fish to human form, we too have the ability to change and evolve. Mermaid legends remind us to embrace our own inner transformation and embrace the changes that come with it. This possibly hints at Posys positive and optimistic outlook at life and also how she changes for the better to help Sophie in the end of the story. IYKYK. Will and Alice as *Antony and Cleopatra* - Antony and Cleopatra is one of William Shakespeare's great love stories in his books, the story is about the love affair between Mark Antony, the Roman military leader and triumvir (one of three men who ruled the Roman empire as a team), and Cleopatra, the queen of Egypt. Cleopatra is notorious for having charmed some of the great men of her era, including Caesar; Antony himself loves her passionately. The main theme is the conflict between duty and passion. Both Antony and Cleopatra are unable to resolve this conflict. This to me reads as a costume that Anthony and Kate would've worn if they were part of the Masquerade Ball as it mirrors their love story really well. Lady Danbury as *Athena, Goddess of War and Wisdom* - Athens, the capitol of Greece is named after the Goddess Athena; she is the goddess of Wisdom and War. She is known for her strategic skill in warfare, is often portrayed as a companion of heroes, and is the patron goddess of heroic endeavor.. Athena is the Olympian goddess of wisdom and war and the adored patroness of the city of Athens. A virgin deity, she was also – somewhat paradoxically — associated with peace. Majestic and stern, Athena surpassed everyone in all of her domains. In fact, even Ares feared her; and all Greek heroes asked her for help and advice. All Greek heroes turned to her for help and advice. This is Lady Danbury. UPDATE: She does dress up as a Greek God, but it might not be Athena...😏 she dresses up as Zeus Benedict as *Zorro/Westley from The Princess Bride* - This is more of an Easter egg costume than probably what inspired Benedict to wear it as Zorro wasn't created until a 100 years after the Masquerade during Benedict's time but Jess Bronwell did say this was the inspiration for Benedict's costume. He's a reluctant masker as Luke Thompson said. He didn't try very hard with his costume. He just grabbed clothing from his wardrobe and got a cheap domino mask and called it a day. But he does look like Zorro and also Westley from The Princess Bride. In the books Benedict simply wore a black suit and a black demi mask. Sophie as *Cinderella* - Obviously we know the main inspiration behind Sophie's silver dress being the OG Cinderella whose dress WAS silver and not blue (I will die on this hill). This is a Cinderella retelling after all. ​ Which is your favorite costume and after hearing about their influences and symbolism, do you think they fit? Did your opinion change? Which one would you wear? I can't be 100% sure what Araminta wears but there are rumors she dresses up as The Wicked Fairy from Sleeping Beauty. submitted by /u/Fickle_Baker1393 to r/BridgertonNetflix [link] [comments]

My personal favorites parts of this throwback to the 90’s Clinton celebratory hype are that the base Clinton is wearing boxers, not briefs and that one of the outfits is a saxophone suit so that you can reenact his appearance on Arsenio Hall submitted by /u/Ok_Dimension_4707 to r/PropagandaPosters [link] [comments]

1.The Stew Crew lives in a bubble where only magical things occur and this week they floated to Hawaii for 2 straight weeks of content gathering. Hawaii is no surprise as a destination because we know that Trace, Zach, Gil, KJ and the littles have already been in the past year… and her best frenemy Josie announced a big Hawaii trip coming in May. That was all Carlin needed to hear to book the tickets. The next time they make hats with catchphrases I better see one that says “ME TOO ME TOO”. Anyway, our first glimpse is the Stewarts getting off of the plane and hitting the beach and Layla is anything but happy. Carlin holds her and tosses her around to try and illicit a smile, but the little diva ain’t having it. This reel has a ton of negative comments… more than Carlin usually gets. Folks say things about the amount of money they spend (someone says they spend money like “a drunken sailor”), how they never actually show up and work at their small business, and the blatant exploitation of their kids. Carlin doesn’t have to respond bc there are hundreds of fans willing to take up for them. We learn that Evan’s entire family is coming to join this trip to celebrate his parent’s 50th wedding anniversary. They came a week early so they can exploit without any nagging from his family. Carlin is linking everything like crazy from panty liners to the car seats to the luggage including a large camera bag. In the midst of all of the linked hygiene products there sits a lone wooden spoon. Why would she need a wooden spoon in a carry-on bag? Evan is hyper aware of what folks are saying so we quickly see Layla and Zade on the beach playing in the sand WITH the spoon. No Beach toys… just a bowl from the hotel and this lone spoon. I mean that totally clears it up. Carlin packed this spoon so her kids could play with it on the beach… one at a time. Carlin links every toy and item she packed for her kids to have on the flight and Evan films Carlin helping Layla read bc home school can happen anywhere. In Carlin’s IG grid post we see the family posing on the beach, the most basic food and Layla either playing up for the camera or sulking. The weekly vlog takes us back to Easter and Evan is front and center with his Potato Head filling the entire screen. They show the kids picking up the eggs they threw all over the AstroTurf and Carlin gushing about how much she loves being a mom. Isn’t that a given? I mean she’s pregnant with #3 at 27. Is this unique information? Evan puts money in ONE egg that Zade spots, but Layla grabs. Zade looks on sadly as Layla rejoices in her win until Evan finally suggests they could buy something together. As much as they love being parents, one might think they could set it up so BOTH kids win. We see the usual filming in church, and Layla is being carried around by Carlin before singing in the kid’s choir. After lunch at the big house, they are off to the airport and Carlin tells us Kelly Jo planned their trip and itinerary. As quickly as possible they get Layla in a bathing suit so they can film her as she twists, twirls and throws faces for the camera. Evan goes out to buy groceries on his own and that means he sets the camera up all over the place and films himself. Riveting. The whole bunch head out on a boat ride for snorkeling and the subtitles are back for poor Zade. Two weeks in Hawaii is 2 weeks he isn’t in speech therapy. Carlin posts in full makeup, jewelry and hair done while wearing pajamas to fake cry about feeling her baby kick for the first time. The staged excitement when she says this is the best day of her life is way over the top. Reminder-3rd pregnancy. Anyway, she calls the baby “he” again and acknowledges in the comments that “everyone” is telling her it is a boy. She links every item of clothing she wears and it’s mostly H&M… just like Josie. She hasn’t linked one BSB item so far. 2.The miniature swing set in Katie’s backyard took quite a beating this week when Hailey, Travis and the big dog, Remi all played on it at the same time. Katie filmed and called Travis the “best dad” for this one tiny thing… Then she promotes it and links it and we know why he was out there to begin with. It’s still $1000 too much. Katie is back in the car to sell that money saving app again. She tells the same story every time she sells it and I just don’t think canceling a subscription to Uber Eats is the reason these folks are living the lifestyle they have. Anyway, we also see Gil harassing Hailey in the backseat with a bear as they load up to leave the big house. Katie posts clips from the Tennessee baseball game where Lawson attempted to sing the National Anthem and she seems to be genuinely proud of him. Her ears are just broken at this point. The vlog this week shows the Clarks at the big house where Travis is helping on this mystery remodel project Zach told us about last week. They only say it’s a small house and needs an open floor plan so it remains unclear if it’s a separate structure on the property or if they are finally refurbishing the dilapidated back of the house. In any case, what happens next truly scared my eyes. Travis and Lawson wind up in a pull up contest started by Zach who does one pull up on a beam directly in front of Travis’ camera. Mercy it was a… lot. Before anyone could blink, Lawson has ripped his shirt off and hauled himself up on this beam where he does 15 pull ups and his tight jeans hang on for dear life. Travis refuses to take his shirt off and then whines that the beam hurts his hands...but old daddy Gil insists on having a turn himself. He rips off 16 pull ups while we hear every bone in his body crack in stereo. Lawson has to accept defeat but the real losers are all of us who witnessed that. Travis is tasked with following Lawson around at the baseball game and filming him and it feels like a real “BIG ME, little you” move from Law. They probably threatened Travis not to so much as HUM less they give Lawson the boot and ask Travis to take his spot. The Clarks are at the big house for Easter and Katie says they are lumping this in with Mother’s Day bc Kelly won’t be home then. Back at the McMansion Warden stops in to build a toy shelf and then Katie shows the walls and doors that Hailey has scribbled all over. Like every single wall and every door pretty much. They act surprised but when you are busy filming, editing and posting… what do you think your toddler is doing? Katie tells us all about an upcoming girl’s trip while she cleans a stain off of her brand new white couch. Turns out that girl’s trip was just 36 hours in NJ with Hailey for her sister in law’s baby shower. Katie seems a bit frantic traveling alone with just Hailey, but Hailey is a breeze. GiGi meets them at the airport where Hailey says “I missed you”. She’s barely 2 and has her pronouns down pat. 3.Josie Balka has to keep up the pilates content all by herself while Carlin is busy doing the hula so she coerces Katie to tag along. We see Willow and Hazel once again in their standard uniform of polyester princess dresses and Josie fully admits it is all that they wear. Well, besides oversized beige attire. Josie hasn’t filmed any new content for Effortless shop in quite a while and the shop is only featuring other influencers constantly taking their hair out of the pool noodle. Is the trend dying down… finally? Josie is back to selling makeup and it’s her new favorite. Forget the whole spiel about how she only uses tinted moisturizer and it’s the best ever. That was LAST month. How can anyone trust her opinion when she is totally in love with whatever company is sending her products and checks? She would also like you to purchase her hair growth pills and she films herself flipping her hair at the camera and tapping all over the bottle with her fake nails to draw you in. After we talked last week about not seeing Kelton in the kitchen, this week Josie shows off “Chef Kelton” at the grill at home and he cooked all of the meat for the Easter spread at the big house. As he explains the food facing the camera his new eyebrows are arched more than McDonald’s and it appears some botox may have found its way to his temples. Josie keeps trying with him… gotta give her that. During Easter Josie gathers her mom, Carlin, Lydia, Katie, Tiffy, Tori and Whitney to film the TikTok trend of pregnancy test roulette. Such fun in a fertility cult. The pee sticks are passed from one to the other with abandon and no hand sanitizer in sight. The results reveal 2 positives we already know about… and a third not yet announced. This sends commenters in to a frenzy of confusion because Josie filmed it, but tagged everyone and they all reposted it. There’s so much to dissect here… these women have never seemed happier than playing this fertility game… they added their 58 year old mother who is beyond thrilled to be one of “the girls”… they filmed this specifically when their one sister who has trouble conceiving wasn’t there, but still flooded social media with it…and lastly…. Is this a thinly veiled ad for ClearBlue Easy? This whole things should clear up the idea that these folks are totally progressive and have left their cult days behind. Moving on… Josie drops old footage of taking Lydia to the Effortless Head Spa for her birthday. They show their scalp consults and it was gross seeing the buildup on Josie’s hair. You can treat yourself for upwards of $200. Josie films a GRWM to remove a full face of makeup and sell yet another product. This one is makeup remover and she needs a tin tub full of it. She talks so fast and so lispy it is impossible to know what she’s really talking about. She plays some game where you have to say what you would do if you started over in your career. She mentions how much she loves “birth” and would want to be a doula but also adores what she does now which, according to her, is wedding makeup. Doesn’t mention the influencing. Before wrapping up the weekthe Balka’s are at the Farmer’s Market with their friends where she films her kids wandering around, eating doughnuts and drinking iced coffee. Rinse and repeat. Josie has one final surprise up her sleeve though... SHE is expecting. Baby Miles is still trying to steady himself on 2 feet, but it’s time to grow up... Momma has a brand new embryo. Josie is now pregnancy #5 which means Lawson was right all along and I can’t think of anything worse than Lawson Bates being right. Well, except for poor Josie’s pelvic floor. 4.It was a big, big week down at the Webster work camp. The kids got a trip to the park, their very own individual lunchable… and a small drink from the coffee shop. They did have to wear their big clunky brown boots and agree to have their noses removed in mom’s pictures… but still. Alyssa set her camera up so she could prance around in front of it and say she is living in her skort and tank top… and has Allie care for Rhett while she takes pictures of him making his scrunched up unhappy face. Back at home, Alyssa tags Aldi, the phone cases and her water jug. I hope the 58 cents commission she makes is what is buying the treats for the kids. The Webster pool is open for the season and we see King Rhett in one of his sister’s floaties I guess we know how tight Alyssa and John really are if they are willing to let their male child be photographed in a pink unicorn life vest…. He is also in the pool in a diaper and that’s gross and hopefully only happens at home. In more breaking news, a friend convinced Alyssa to come over to her subdivision’s pool and let their kids play together. Alyssa agreed bc the pool was deserted in the middle of the day and she was allowed to film all of the kids through her filter that washes away any joy or happiness. Rhett is shown in the pink floatie and things just keeping getting worse for him bc this time he is also wearing the damn sad hat. Alyssa seems to have gotten her groove back and is no longer afraid of the world outside of her front door…. Which probably means John will want another baby soon. The homeschool scholarship is really coming in clutch and the family (minus John) makes another trip to Sea World with the cousins. Alyssa poses for a picture with her lover… the humongous iced coffee, and the kids line up obediently for the proof of life pictures. Bet those sea lions weren’t expecting to be filtered. Alyssa is also in her gardening era and shows tons of little vegetables and herbs she is planting around the porch at home. Spring in Florida is so colorful and full of life and vibrancy but she works hard to strip the color away from everything. Her filtered outlook on life matches her vibe… sepia toned and grainy with gloom pushing in from the edges. 5.Whitney Bates just wants to be relatable. As a “busy mom of 5” she has forgotten to get her real ID. Aw shucks, aw dang, y’all. She’s traveling next week and has a girl’s trip coming up and needs that ID. Hopefully she will get it on time y’all. Whitney wanted engagement with this story, and she got it. She tells her viewers that she doesn’t own a passport bc she has no desire to ever travel outside of the good old US of A. Zach shows off another steak dinner, this time with noodles and cheese all topped with olive oil. His arteries are begging for mercy. He’s back out at his new griddle… this time to demonstrate how to season it correctly. He wastes a ton of beef tallow doing this. Chad Paine is going to come running in from the shadows and grab that big vat of tallow so he and Erin can add some MLM oils to it and sell it! Oil and grease are the themes this week as Whitney is also selling body oil. She coats herself in it while she slips up and says she’s been spending a lot of time “out in the pool”… is that the secret they are keeping?? For some unknown reason, Zach reposts the pregnancy test reel featuring his wife, mom and all of his sisters. Trying to drum up interest he adds the side eye emoji to the reel. Whitney just adamantly said she was NOT pregnant in their q and a video so… guess he’s just trying to be one of the influencer girlies. This week’s vlog is just another week of cobbled together chat with Warden. Zach is devouring a hamburger while talking and keeps dipping it in a shared cup of sauce. Warden looks like his stomach is turning but little Jaydon keeps wriggling around in his lap licking up the sauce while they talk. Most of the questions are food related and every answer is just “steak” but we do learn that Gil isn’t really doing tree jobs now, and that Zach doesn’t like his dad’s work schedule. Warden plays Fort Night with Zach’s kids and they talk about how music wasn’t allowed growing up so the boys would come to Zach’s, watch Madagascar and dance their hearts out. Warden works construction and paints lines in parking lots at night. Zach will only say that Warden is “not married”. Duh. He’s 21 years old. Let’s hope he stays single for quite a while. 6.Bless Lydia Bates heart… she is now on week 333 (33) of this never ending pregnancy that she has been preparing for the end of for 263 weeks. This week she puts a bassinet in the corner of her room and links some maternity clothes. She films a mini vlog of her baby checkup that is just her talking in the car, showing the inside of the doctor’s office, and then she’s back in the car and says it was too awkward to film anything. Girl, that isn’t how Carlin Stewart made it to Hawaii for 2 weeks. Awkward is not a word influencers know! The baby is measuring 2 weeks behind and Lydia needs a growth scan. She’s ready for the end, but it sounds like baby girl needs some more time. By mid-week she totally gives up, sets up the camera pointing towards the couch, and films herself sleeping. Finally Trace comes home and they can head to Florida. On the 12 hour drive, Lydia regales us with fun facts like her due date of June 13 and that her favorite German meal is shoe leather steak and sad noodles. Their vlog begins with a tour of the bedroom. The tour is really just Lydia turning to the left, and then turning to the right but she’s super excited about ALL of the color she is adding. ALL of the color is a blue pillow and a small blue blanket. She shows off the baby’s clothes and a few pink outfits have snuck in. The sponsor this week is a beige rug. Lydia’s sister is going on the vacation with them to act as Ryker’s baby sitter. We get a house tour and it’s a super cool house that they are sharing with a friend named Hubert and his family. Her sister gets to share a room with the other family’s babysitter for the week. Doesn’t that sound fun and not at all miserable. 7.Spring time is when life begins anew with little babies and everything is bright and fresh and young. Is anyone surprised then, that Erin Paine is knocked up once again? I am pretty sure that Dr. Vick told Erin he GAVE her an extra third of an ovary, but she was groggy from the anesthesia and heard the whole thing wrong. Then again, what else do these fools have to do? Erin at least is trying to get you to buy her God cards and her doodled on note cards. You can buy 5 cards for just $9. The shipping is $4 though, so I’m finding it hard to believe this is a savvy business plan. She wants to know if folks would like a subscription service for her tallow. The only person I know who needs that much beef fat is brother Zach. We see the Paine kids filing in to church on Wednesday evening and the girls all seem to have new haircuts. Wonder if Erin does it herself, ala Michelle Duggar with a FlowBee? Erin is super excited that the tallow is back in stock and she’s upped the prices. There are now 2 sizes available and... drum roll please... man fat is also now available. Men need their own masculine fat and Erin has created it. Not sure who her test model is because we all know Chad’s hands are baby soft. In the vlog where they announce the 7th baby, Erin is practically cooing as she rains praises on each child. She goes overboard saying that they cried out to God and begged for a child for so long before Carles came along. It’s all a bit much and she wraps it up by saying that she and Chad feel it is their calling in life to raise these children and point them to Jesus. Jesus is pointing back Erin and telling you there’s more to it than just raising them. You are supposed to educate them, feed them and give them some kind of an opportunity too. Oh, and be able to remember their names. That’s helpful. Michael celebrates Easter by sharing tons of flower and tree pictures. She tells the story of the Dogwood blossom and how it relates to the resurrection of Christ. She and Brandon head to the Smoky Mountains for their church’s couples retreat and while there, they spot a bear. She also sends huge congratulations to Erin on her announcement and gushes over the newest Balka to be. Gotta give her props for trying to roll with the flow and be a good sport. In their new vlog they sit together at a desk and recap their Easter trip to Michigan. They have shots of Brandon working with his dad, and his mom decorating tons of Easter goodies.They tell a story about baby bunnies that were separated from their mother and how the mom came back and rescued them. Michael says the Keilen farm is a great place to get away from it all. I can just imagine her gathering her skirts, heading out to the middle of a cow field and screaming her lungs out. I know I certainly would. But instead... she just continues to keep sweet and turn the other cheek. (My dad used to tell my mom he was trying to be the bigger person and turn the other cheek but both of them were blistered!) His mom baked, cooked and made it nice and next up they are going to tell another night-night story about their trip to Florida to visit his sister’s new baby. Tiffany and Lawson spent another week stuck together at home in Nashville churning out nauseating content. Dumb things like Tiffy complaining about her hubby trying to get her to like black coffee or how she’s the little woman who keeps them broke. She films a blank wall and shows how she added some Home Goods crap to it. Tiffany’s parents are in town again and she ruined a steak dinner for all of them not to enjoy. It’s just more shoe leather and gristle... maybe that should be their couple’s name. She expresses how sad she gets when her parents go home. I’m surprised they haven’t made the move to Tennessee yet. Esther is still just about the only Bates that keeps in contact with Tiffany, and we see the 2 of them on a facetime together with baby Graham. Baby Will is getting 2 teeth and starting to crawl. They have a robin’s nest full of eggs in that tree Lawson loves to climb and that makes me wonder... where the heck is Duke the dog? We need to put an APB out on his whereabouts bc since he took Kelly Jo down... he hasn’t been seen. Lawson has a new song coming out all about Poppa Bill and the title has everyone thinking the poor man is dead already. I can’t decide if exploiting your innocent children is worse, better or the same as exploiting your elderly grandfather who is suffering from dementia... but Lawson does it all. It’s another maudlin dirge with a 6th grade rhyming scheme where he screeches around notes while standing out in the road patting his chest and pointing in to the distance. Tiffany promotes it heavily all week by commenting that it’s “so sad about Lawson’s granddad”. Truly it seems they want people to be confused about his health. She also posts a reel where she flicks Lawson in the throat because she’s furious that he is right. It would have been so much better if she karate chopped him, but we’ll take what we can get. We now know the trip they made to the farm was strictly so Lawson could film a music video for this mess of a song and I wish I could read Momma Jane’s thoughts when that crew pulled away. Lawson gives a shout out to Carlin and Evan for helping them capture so many memories for them. Does that mean they are editing? If so... Evan is slow as hell bc they haven’t had a timely vlog in weeks. They do head to the big house for Easter and her parents join them. Tiffany is overjoyed to be invited to join the “it girls” in their pregnancy baiting reel. She ends the week by showing us how she is teaching baby Will to smile on cue. He needs to learn his lessons well and fast bc daddy’s new song is not going to be selling out stadiums. Bits and Bytes…Kelly Jo posts a reel showing all of the families that spent Easter at the big house...BSB has a Mother’s day drop with dresses priced from $70-85. When they don’t immediately sell out, they drop the prices on all of the brand new items by $20-35 and finally sell those $50 T-shirts for half price...Kelly Jo says Happy Birthday to Emerson who she barely knows. She just talks about the baby on the way and how happy she is to be allowed to be a part of it all...Zach is in charge of all of the electrical work on this remodeling project. No Evan in sight...Isaiah and Addee are fresh off of a trip to Europe with the Clown College Singing Circus and we see Addee in pictures with her rumored boyfriend...Baby Will Bates is officially 9 months old and Tiffy shares a ton of pictures but only one with any of the Bates... Have a great week friends. With all of these Bates babies on the way it is pretty evident that they all know the story about the stork bringing babies. 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My sister-in-law is a single mom of a young daughter and 14-year old son, “Will”. She’s doing a great job but has expressed concern about raising her kids without a father figure, especially Will. He’s a good kid but easily impressionable. Over the last year or so, my wife and I have been involving her kids more. I’ve taken Will under my wing to show him the stuff he’ll need to know as he grows up. We’ve done car maintenance, fixed things around the house, and yard work. He really seems to enjoy it. One thing we recently talked about was the importance of appearance. Like most young people these days, Will wears a lot of hoodies, pajama pants, and flip flops. I took him shopping and bought him some dress shoes, button down shirts, khakis, and a suit. He was so excited for the suit and planned to wear it to church on Easter. He talked about it for weeks. My sister-in-law law recently started dating this guy named “Tyler”. I’ve only met him once, but Will said he was decent. He only recently met the kids and started spending time at their house. The four of them showed up to church on Easter looking upset. Scowls on all of their faces. They also looked like they had just rolled out of bed. Tyler was wearing wrinkled jeans and a T-shirt and Will had on a hoodie, flip flops, and sweat pants. My SIL and niece were dressed similarly. After church, I asked Will what happened and he told me that they had an argument. Will had just finished getting dressed when Tyler came over to drive them to church. He saw Will’s suit and made him change clothes because he was only wearing jeans. Tyler also convinced SIL not to wear the dress she picked out and to keep her outfit casual. Will protested and they had an argument all the way to church, during which time Tyler threatened to take give “those bougie clothes to Goodwill or some shit”. He also told Will he looked “gay” and “stupid”in his suit and that “nobody dresses like that”. I told him not to worry, and he could try out his suit later on, but boy was I pissed. I don’t really know Tyler but I fell like he was overstepping…..big time. He hasn’t been in their lives for that long and he’s already subordinating them and talking crazy. I got upset but my wife urged me to leave it alone. I didn’t. Since we were all going to dinner after church, I wanted nip it in the bud. I pulled Tyler to the side to talk. I don’t believe in arguing or embarrassing another man in front of his woman and kids. This was supposed to be a talk between us, away from everybody, to get an understanding. I calmly explained my concerns and he instantly bucked up, claiming that he runs that house…not me. I reminded him that they aren’t married and he cannot treat my SIL, niece, and nephew like that. It quickly escalated into a shouting match and drew a crowd of parishioners to the parking lot. It ended with him going to jail for assault (he shoved me into a car and I punched him in lip before we were pulled apart). I had no idea things would escalate as they did. It was embarrassing for everyone. But I don’t feel bad for standing up for my nephew. I’m not his father, but I’ve known him all his life. I don’t like seeing some jerk-off guy come into his life and tear him down instead of building him up. If Tyler was a longtime boyfriend or stepfather then sure…..his house, his rules. But this behavior is a major red flag. What kind of man is jealous of a child’s outfit and makes him change? What kind of man threatens to give away a child’s clothes and calls a kid derogatory names? And what kind of man fights at a church he’s visiting for the first time? I told my wife she needs to talk to her sister about her choices in men. She refused and said she stopped doing that years ago and made her peace with her sister not wanting her input. I’m not sure if SIL will take him back, but I told her that Tyler has displayed violent tendencies and she should reconsider her relationship. I’m not trying to control her or her decisions. I’m just concerned that Tyler may be a hothead. She says I’m an asshole for trying to tell her who to date and it’s none of my business, but added that she will do the best thing for her family. Whatever that means. My wife says that she is proud of me for standing up to Tyler, but thinks I did it in the wrong fashion. I think I did the right thing and Tyler was in the wrong. AITAH for how I handled this? AITAH for trying to give my SIL a warning? submitted by /u/623450 to r/AITAH [link] [comments]

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I am NOT OOP, OOP is u/Acaica65 Originally posted to r/CharlotteDobreYouTube AITA for serving divorce papers to my ex at his job the day before he thought he was coming back home? Thanks to u/queenlegolas & u/soayherder for suggesting this BoRU Trigger Warnings: emotional abuse and manipulation, drug use, assault, infidelity, financial exploitation Mood Spoilers: triumphant Original Post: January 22, 2025 I'm sorry, this is really long. Back story: I (59F) was married to my now ex (57M) we'll call him Ed for 10 years, together for 13, but originally met him 40 years ago as teenagers. He was in my circle of friends but we never dated. We used to live in Florida, but when I was 19 I moved back to Michigan where I am originally from. 27 years later I went back to the city in Florida where I used to live to visit friends. I ran into Ed while on vacation and we began talking on the phone daily. Three months later he left Florida and moved in with me. Three years later we were married. (Not my first but his first) We had our ups and downs but mainly we got along fine and didn't argue much. He would throw tantrums if things didn't go his way and would "punish me" by sleeping on the edge of the bed, which was fine with me or he would not talk to me and slam things. Two years into our marriage things went horribly wrong when he got into drugs. It was horrible. One night I finally had enough and was on the phone with my MIL telling her I was sending back to Florida when the Sheriff's department knocked on my door. Someone had found my husband unconscious, severely beaten, in a ditch a block from our house. (We lived in a small village with woods across the street) I raced to the hospital and didn't recognize him when I saw him. He was so swollen and bruised. Now, my husband was a man who could fight and he was strong. Come to find out it took 3 men to do this. They thought they could rob him since it was pay day but he had been home and purposely left his wallet at home. I sat with him 24/7 while he was in Neuro/Trauma ICU. I slept on a couch in his room, I prayed over him, I bathed him and took care of him even after he came home. This actually saved his life. He got clean and went back to work full time, always putting me and my grandson first before his needs. He went to work and came home. That's it. Four years later I finished my education and became an ordained Priest and have been the pastor at my church ever since. At first he didn't mind, but then he would say things like "I didn't sign up for this" even though I never pushed church on him. I knew he believed in God and he prayed daily. I would invite him to Christmas and Easter service and he also came when I ordained and when my grandson, who calls him Grandpa, was baptized. For several years things were really good. Then suddenly he began coming home from work, showering, changing clothes and leaving. At first he said it was to watch whatever sports was playing on TV because we didn't have live TV. Then he told me he'd be back whenever he got back. Then, things went back to how they were. We laughed a lot, we joked around, and I began getting the usual kiss goodbye before he left for work. One night, he had done his laundry, like he always did and I talked to him while he was folding it. He never wanted me to do his laundry so that wasn't new. We ended the night laughing as he was trying on old clothes. The next morning I woke up and went out to the living room to ask what time he had to be at work but he was gone. I assumed he had to be there early. I walked back into the bedroom and saw his keys on the bed which made me wonder why he would walk to work on such a cold day. It was December 1st. I started leaving the bedroom again and noticed his laundry basket missing so I went to the laundry room and it wasn't there. I went back into the bedroom and noticed his closet empty. I called him to see where he was and asked if he had moved out and of course his answer was yes. Come to find out he had met a woman at his job who works for one of those shopping apps where people buy and deliver your groceries. (He worked for a large grocery store chain) He had moved in with her. Over the next 6 months he called almost daily and would say things like "Our marriage will survive this, just give me time" He even told me he would be mad if I began dating. During one of our phone calls he told me he wasn't happy with her and was going down to Florida to visit family. He said he wanted to come back to me when he came back to Michigan. The plan was this... He would pack things that he couldn't live without but leave things at his new gf's house to make her think he was coming home to her. He planned on giving his 2 week notice while gone and planned on looking for another job when he came home. By this time I knew I didn't want him back. I found my self worth again and had made new friends with neighbors once he was gone. Come to find out nobody liked him. Even the women at the gas station across the street told me how he flirted with them when he came in. Even an Elder at my church found out he was cheating but didn't tell me because she didn't want to hurt me. So I went to the courthouse and got a divorce package and filled out all of the paperwork. Where I live I was able to serve him myself. I decided that since he chose to end our marriage while working at the store, I would officially end it there. So, the day before he was supposed to fly to Florida I made sure I looked really good. New hairstyle, make-up, and my outfit was sexy. I went to his job, found him, and handed him the divorce papers. I told him that he was wrong. Our marriage wasn't surviving this. You should have seen his face. He was actually upset with tears in his eyes and for a moment I felt bad. Then I reminded myself what he had done to me. He didn't just leave me in the middle of the night, but he stopped talking and doing things with my grandson who thought Grandpa was the greatest. He left me in a house that I couldn't afford without him, and I would have been homeless if my church wouldn't have paid for an apartment. He told me women were stupid. He actually thought he could come home as if nothing happened. That was one thing he said to me on the phone because I never brought up the past. Last week, six months after our divorce was final, my car was repossessed. When we were together he got two loans and I agreed to use my SUV as collateral because I never pictured my life without him. He stopped paying on his loans so they took my car. I wasn't notified because they sent him the letters. They wanted me to pay off his loans to get it back. I burst out laughing and said that will never happen. So, my question is was I the AH for serving him the way I did? Relevant Comments Commenter 1: Wow I can't believe he would still try and say the marriage would survive from the phone at his girlfriend's house. NTA OOP: All of his calls were while he was on his lunch break at work. Commenter 2: NTA for serving him. My only question is why did it take you so long? OOP: I felt broken at first. Then my niece passed away. Then my own health fell apart and I was in the hospital 31 days so I had to build my strength back up. Also, I didn't want to tell my congregation that I was getting a divorce. But mainly my health Commenter 3: OP, Truly, there's not enough bad shit that can happen to this human vermin. Did he violate any court orders when he defaulted on the 2 loans and caused the repossession? Btw, your grandson is best served to have no contact with this Jekyll/Hyde persona. OOP: Unfortunately no he didn't. I had forgotten about the loans when I filed the divorce. We always had separate accounts. What made me mad was when I called our credit union about my car being gone and they got rude and told me they sent me a letter to my church. They didn't know I am the pastor. I said... I AM the pastor and all of the mail gets put on my desk. There was never a letter. That was last Monday. Then on Wednesday a letter from the CU came stating my was was going to be taken. They mailed it to me the same day I called. Two days after the car was taken. I'm not inconvenienced without a car. My daughter and grandson moved in with me and we share her car now. Commenter 4: You and your ex were BOTH required to disclose ALL assets and liabilities. Your ex's nondisclosure could possibly be addressed with a post-divorce motion. OOP: We didn't have any real assets so we did a DIY divorce and I had forgotten about his loans. My friend who is a judge said that whatever he left behind when he left he forfeited. I did give him things after he left that I knew he had forgot to take. I packed them and set them on the porch.   Update: February 1, 2025 (10 days later) Update: Thank you for the comments and support. Here's a reminder of what happened. My now ex husband got a loan while we were married and used my car as collateral. A year later he left me for someone he met at work. He kept telling me that our marriage would survive, just give him time. He ended up not being happy with her and planned to come back to me after he left to visit his family our of state. He planned on not telling his gf he was leaving her and was only packing what he couldn't live without. His plan was to return home to me when he came home. The day before he left to visit family I served him with divorce papers. Two weeks ago my car was repossessed and the bank wanted me to pay my car off $3k and his two loans that he stopped paying on, $5700. I was willing to pay my car off but told them I'd never pay for his loans and they refused. Here's what happened since my post. I found out where my car was being held at. (Two cities away) When I went to their website I discovered that it's also the location where they sell the repossessed cars during an online auction. They hold it every Monday for 24 hours. I called and asked if I could have my belongings out of it and they said yes. When I arrived they had my things in a bag, including my license plate. I registered online and this past Monday began bidding on my car. I ended up buying my car for $2700. When I showed up to get my car the people laughed and said I'm not the first person to do this. I put my plate back on and came home. Now, I know the bank can still come after me for the balance, but I honestly don't care if it hits my credit report. I don't use credit cards, and in October my daughter closed on a brand new house. I had no other bills except my cell and utilities. I'm now living with her and my grandson. I was lucky enough to have enough time in to retire when my Muscular Dystrophy began causing more health issues and that money goes to my other bank. My MIL was happy to give me his new address so I can sue my ex for my half of our income tax return that he kept last year. She's even having us (me, daughter, grandson) stay with her when we visit Florida during my grandson's spring break. She's still calling Ed's gf Teresa, Trina, Tracy, everything except her name which does start with the letter T. I love this woman. Relevant Comments Commenter 1: NTA but why did you wait 6 months to divorce him when he left you for another woman? OOP: My health prevented me for most of the time. I was in the hospital 31 days and then had to get my strength back. Plus, I didn't want to explain I was getting divorced again, but mostly my health. Commenter 2: But you kept answering his calls on a daily basis while he was actively living at his mistress’s home🫣. I’m glad something finally clicked in you because that’s not the case for a lot of women. OOP: I'm the beginning I was shocked that he left and it wasn't that I wanted him to come home. I think it was more habit than anything. We always talked on his break. We did this for 13 years. Commenter 3: Nta... he deserves it Commenter 4: NTA. And you didn’t make a scene when you served him. Congrats on attaining your freedom.:)   DO NOT COMMENT IN LINKED POSTS OR MESSAGE OOPs – BoRU Rule #7 THIS IS A REPOST SUB - I AM NOT OOP submitted by /u/Choice_Evidence1983 to r/BestofRedditorUpdates [link] [comments]

Now that 2+ weeks has past, I can no compile and combine my 2 popular posts on SRD that was recommended to be posted here. Original Threads (don't worry, I'll combine them here, but in case you wanna read the reactions from the other sub) - https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1hvir4v/the_ntr_drama_has_finally_come_to_global_as_girls/ https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1ie0h2a/the_ntr_gacha_drama_part_2_the_cuck_chronicles_a/ Context : More in depth threads when it first happened in China over at the r/gachagaming subreddit I'll post now. Ill typing this on mobile will clean it up later https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1aebmme/a_deep_dive_into_cn_waifu_husbando_culture_gfl2/ - best article on the topic https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1av99u6/gfl2_drama_timeline_summarised_somewhat_spoiler/ - timeline of patch history post daiyan https://www.reddit.com/r/GirlsFrontline2/comments/1hvh41k/daiyan_reporting_for_duty/ - Announcement just a few minutes ago with comments deleted Recommend the first post if interested. -----–--------------- Context : Again first post is the best written one on the topic, but I'll try to somehow summarize it. Girl's Frontline was a relatively niche community in the west, I will abbreviate it as GFL and GFL2. GFL2, now has a MASSIVE playerbase spike due to Global server launch in the West with 2+million new players. However, unlike other gachs games, it almost died in China. It is a standard gacha, where you roll for characters or girls and they are named after guns as they are waifu robots. Every robot or T-Doll as they are called in game has an event or storyline that introduces them, many of them were from the first game. The game heavily promotes storylines and player interactions with the dolls. You can gift them to raise affinity and marry them (or giving them "covenant rings"). Every event has allusions to you fucking them, but written as it could mean anything. "special night training sessions", "special exercise commander, make sure you have the stamina for this", "you should know I have a night bonus", etc you can visit the gfl2 sub right now to see some posts In GFL2, you can pose them and watch them sleep in their dorms. The point is, it is a very parasocial interaction with these dolls. Fans from Gfl1 proclaim their love for their specific doll with hundreds of hentai doujins, body pillows, keychains, and covenant ring. In China, there is even a themed store where you can buy wedding rings for each doll. https://girlsfrontline.world.tmall.com/shop/view_shop.htm?spm=2013.1.0.0.30aa56b3b64abQ Gacha games are usually F2P live service video games, typically mobile with some PC versions where you "pull" or roll for characters like you would a slot machine. Costs can very from 50 cent a "pull" to 5$ a pull for some of the spendy gachas. Typically you pull for "waifus" or girl characters in the popular gachas, some games have transitioned as they found people would usually only pull for female characters. Then some added romance. This is alot to unpack, so take your time to digest this info and read the aforementioned links before diving in. This will be a post split into 3 segments, featuring 3 gacha communities and their relation to the event. I do not expect you to read all of this drama in one go. I just had extra time cause of my last post. Drama https://min.news/en/game/b0a0d509f6ebd22dbd55dd5a45928637.html In China, shortly after release they released a new limited T Doll or girl, Daiyan who is a returning character and a Chinese favorite, as she is Chinese or Asian. However, during the event storyline, she talked with Raymond, a name that is now infamous. The short of it is, Raymond has the audacity to talk to our doll as an attractive male side character and our doll thanked him. The full summarized story is, Raymond is a terrorist and heard daiyan singing at an event, he was moved, talked to her about his life story and trauma, then changed his ways. He was arrested, he wrote a letter to her thanking her and saying he loved her singing and her. She continues writing back that he can change, blah blah. That's it. She never proclaims her love for him, just trying to help him. However, the CN community dug deep into the game files and voice files and noted Raymond was said 66 times, whereas the MC had 0 voicelines mentioning us. They also noted 50/66 lines was MR. Raymond. Then the outrage occurred. To them, this was Raymond cucking the protag. They then started saying devs want to cuck us with a terrorist, etc etc. They wrote daiyan into being a whore and the like. This is amplified by the fact that Diayan had a job as a singer and the event stated she ENTERTAINED high end clients. They took it as euphemism she is whoring herself out. The backlash was immense. Within a few weeks, GFL2 dropped out of top 200 in revenue https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Ye411h7mK/?spm_id_from=333.999.0.0 Another game, Snowbreak, took shots at the GFL deva https://t.bilibili.com/888491075582296064 By pro claiming they would never cuck their players In the comments on the Chinese threads Google translated you can see players from almost every big gacha game calling everyone who plays GFL2 a green hat or a cuck. (green hat is an insult for cuck there) Even now the stigma of being a cuck game is prevalent in the community leading to a small schism BTW gfl1 and 2 subs. See below https://www.reddit.com/r/girlsfrontline/comments/1eizgdz/i_still_dont_understand_why_people_call_gfl2_an/ The incident is known as the "Raymond" incident and is a touchy subject now. The drama became so large, the story got rewritten TWICE. with one rewrite changing Raymond into a girl, before scrapping most of the dialogue. The VA in China apologized for saying her lines publicly and the game director released an apology video. https://t.bilibili.com/891997138982010901?tab=2 Again, over 1event. The game never recovered in China and is still relatively unpopular today there. In comes Global. GFL2 experiences a massive resurgence with over 20 mill first month of global. However, today Daiyan was announced as next character in Global and the drama is returning as the subs are extra vigilant during this chaotic time. Many wonder if the game will experience a repeat of the drama. On Twitter, and other sites, Chinese bots and some fans are stirring shit again. On the official Twitter the announcement post has dozens of mentions of Raymond NTR. On the Chinese forums, some people and mostly trolls commissioned NTR daiyan hentai to dm users who post about daiyan. I cannot overstate how many gacha players in China harass GFL2 players for being cucks. Now with global, they are starting another campaign. As of now hundreds of new ntr posts are created on those sites (you know which ones). They are using AI to make most of them in order to flood the sites with them. Part 2 Update Prologue : Aftermath of GFL2 and r/girlsfrontline - Short segment Voice Actress was replaced after harassment campaign and apology statement -https://weibo.com/7367502517/P599xdxbe You can read more on that in og post. For voicing the character, she apologized, but gone quiet and the studio cannot contact her. AFAIK and from numerous posts, she is done with that side of the community. https://www.reddit.com/r/GirlsFrontline2/comments/1i3fs2y/so_chat_whats_overall_opinion_on_daiyan_on_global/ New events are unvoiced as they transition voice actresses. Storyline was finally rewritten 3 times. First by changing the male character to a girl, then removing the character entirely, then removing the entire terrorist plot. While NTR nsfw content was spammed, CN users who participated in trying to kill GFL2 in the west stopped after realizing western audiences don't care and some enjoyed receiving free porn. Snowbreak released a story update. The MAIN point (some ppl will say there is more to it and I WILL GET THERE), is in the story a shapeshifter shifts into one of your pullable girls, and sleeps with the bad guy. Your girl does not sleep with them, a shapeshifter shifts into her and sleeps with them. This sparks SEVERE backlash by the community within 24 hours (12 hours really). The devs had an emergency livestream, where they profusely apologized for the update - https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2F03gj1a2rgpzd1.png%3Fwidth%3D668%26format%3Dpng%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3D33963d2a0876da671d3e04217075f6d9eb80d860 People in CN and the West threatened a boycott and chargebacks regarding the game (comments will be posted after summary) * Part 1 - Snowbreak Controversy - I will put the comments at the end of the segment. Context - Snowbreak devs initially participated in the harassment and mocking of GFL players and devs https://t.bilibili.com/888491075582296064 - There are dozens of posts on weibo/billibilli etc. To Summarize, the devs went, "We would never do this to our players, etc etc". So their userbreak harassed GFL players calling them cucks/greenhats. Drama - However, last month, after the initial harassment of GFL players, they had their own controversial NTR/CUCK drama https://t.bilibili.com/888491075582296064 https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1gm8ojk/heavy_cringe_warning_translation_what_went_wrong/ - Main HEAVY HEAVY HEAVY HEAVY Cringe warning. https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1gmobsk/recap_of_the_snowbreak_developers_livestream/ https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1glugsm/seasun_snowbreak_fires_some_peoples_responsible/ https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1fye16l/snowbreak_will_no_longer_work_with_cosplayers/ I could link from the snowbreak sub, but uh. There is too many NSFW links there. Summary or key drama points Snowbreak Originally was LESS horny at launch (still horny) - After a player breakdown/survey in CN and Asian communities they found that a very sizable and comedic % of their playerbase was single males ( It was in the 90%, ppl meme it was probably 99%). Their metadata also showed that a majority of their purchases were towards female characters. So they pivoted hard into the horny side. Part 1.5 - Male NPC extinction Event https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1bqns7c/snowbreak_is_replacing_all_male_logistics/ - So Hard, they began replacing male characters with female characters - Yes, almost every male NPC since then are slowly being redesigned to be female. (This segment is 1.5 as there are just too many juicy comments relating to this drama that I'll include it here, but skip if you don't care) https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1bqns7c/snowbreak_is_replacing_all_male_logistics/kx3nf0g/ Im more surprised people are surprised this is a thing, have you played Snowbreak the past few months? We went from having chubby astronaut suits that covered characters from head to toe, to half ripped schoolgirl outfits, its very clear which demographic this game is targeting. This "coomer bait" doubled their revenue. (There's even a post about it on this very subreddit) Ever wondered why games like Nikke are so successful in the first place? Surely for its gripping story and male characters no doubt Coomer bait prolonged it's life, but after Katrina dropped, it started going back on a downwards trend. String bikinis can only carry a mid tier product so far before people start realizing how mid it is and drop it for better products. Ever wondered why games like Nikke are so successful in the first place? Surely for its gripping story and male characters no doubt. Ass might bring in the players initially, but almost every Nikke fan I've seen also gush about the story, music, and the gameplay in harder modes. Also, my opinion, I'm not a player; however, as an avid enjoyer of lewd, Nikke's designs have style and soul, and are actually attractive in ways that go beyond emphasizing sex appeal. Snowbreak's designs in contrast, look like desperate cringe levels of fanservice designed by people who've only ever looked at low tier Nutaku games for examples of sexy women in fanservicey outfits. https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1bqns7c/snowbreak_is_replacing_all_male_logistics/kx6wet7/ if pure coom is enough to always draw a crowd, H-gacha would be among the most resilient gacha out there. As it stands people also want to play a good game (RIP Magicami, you were good, but not good enough). Turns out even the horniest coomer experiences post nut clarity. https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1bqns7c/snowbreak_is_replacing_all_male_logistics/kx9euns/ Have they given Caroline her Purple G-String back? I'll go back if they did. https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1bqns7c/snowbreak_is_replacing_all_male_logistics/kx3lsva/ I play snowbreak but it is ridiculous Reply Yea this is hitting extreme territory now. The changes before were means for the game to continue. Now it looks like they are fostering a toxic degen community. Rip my hopes for techwear skins That’s because they’re main spenders are CN and you saw the GFL2 drama. https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1bqns7c/snowbreak_is_replacing_all_male_logistics/kx4d00f/ Man.. so the player character is the only male there, then? https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1bqns7c/snowbreak_is_replacing_all_male_logistics/kx3ruoe/ I don't blame them at all. They are saving their game. People should've supported it the way it was before if they're going to act like this is such a crime now. Money talks and prude grandstanding doesn't. Reply It's prude grandstanding to have male characters? More GFL2 related comments https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1bqns7c/snowbreak_is_replacing_all_male_logistics/kx3ni6p/ It's not that, I believe. It's more like they don't want to attract the attention of the "crowd" that was attacking GFL2. Unlike in bigger gacha games, if Snowbreak takes a hit from those trolls, they might not be able to mitigate its effects. Hell, even Arknights decided to make art changes in response to the Korean ppsmall emoji outrage that took place not too long ago. Good, it shows that protests do work, I'm sick of these fucking incel woke losers wanting fat chicks and gay shit in our games https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1bqns7c/snowbreak_is_replacing_all_male_logistics/kx3l8hq/ Another schizo outbreak from CN players? Angry replies (there are comments in support, but this is drama) insecure whackjobs who think all women should be slaves to them basically any sign of a normal, human interaction between characters in a story might as well be Shakespearean NTR in their eyes if said characters are male and female, not a pure wahmen interaction that isnt them sucking up to the MC, aka them Reply to this This is abit extreme of a take. l would almost call it personal. Calm down simp I'm curious to know why you believe the word "simp" is applicable in this situation. Poor simp madge at the truth ;( https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1bqns7c/snowbreak_is_replacing_all_male_logistics/kx3qzk1/ "we cant make the game better so we'll just go full degen and milk these idiots for everything theyve got" Reply gacha in a nutshell all gacha gamers are idiots including f2p who gladly waste their own time away I would gladly play a game like Snowbreak for free. Better than those $70 AAA woke trash. https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1bqns7c/snowbreak_is_replacing_all_male_logistics/kx3lzkx/ Stuff like this makes me want to drop a game because it shows the devs have no vision and will just give in to every silly player demand because of weird player insecurities. It's genuinely embarrassing to even want this as a player I can't imaging being this pathetic Deleted replies (use WBM) When mihoyo axing hi3 events, manjuu retcon their character designs, did you bitch this hard? Fucking unalive yourself incel trash and leave us alone. We don't want to see smelly fat bastards in our games. Good long comments and replies https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1bqns7c/snowbreak_is_replacing_all_male_logistics/kx3xro9/ People here just lack background knowledge. The gender war in cn gacha community has been a thing for a long time. Male and female players used to play different games and the gacha community was in peace. Then genshin came out, which dragged both communities and was a huge success, then the gender war begins. Male players complain that the gacha companies make the most profit from them (which is likely true) but keep trying to attract female market by making hot male characters and ignore male players (for example, the infamous 0 female limited 5 star for an entire year incident in genshin), and the female gacha players are the loud minority that ruin the game (they are more outspoken in social media like weibo and complain about the game releasing too many hot girls, and even report those games to ccp to censor them, for example a hot female character in ptn was pulled off because of it). Also, the success of genshin makes other game companies to make similar games (nicknamed ‘mixed gender toilet games’), which make the male community more angry. Finally, after the gfl2 raymond incident, they realized even games with only female playable characters are not safe (it’s kinda funny but this was 100% dev’s fault. Imagine ur azur lane shipgirl gets a npc boyfriend in al2). So they start to riot, become more outspoken, and try to force the devs to cater one gender only. This is where we are now. The games have to choose one side: male only, female only, or the ‘mixed gender toilet’, and the devs need to be very clear about it and stick to it. This is why azur promilia had to announce they have only female playable characters and why snowbreak chose to replace their male npcs (which is a bit of an over-react, but I blame this to gfl2) I just think it is so unfair for people here to judge and criticize the cn players without the context. Also, it is not that they hate those mixed gender games. They just hate the devs being unclear with what they cater to and force them to choose a side. Reply Gender war: it is deeply related to the gender war outside gacha. It is a big social problem in China now. I absolutely hate this bullshit but blaming this to snowbreak devs and players is unfair. GFL2: The leader of gfl2 devs is a female dev called ‘star’, who pushes the narrative that ‘dolls have their own life’ in gfl2 and the raymond incident is just an example of it. I absolutely support women right but pushing this narrative with a ntr incident in a game that is 100% targeting male player base is beyond stupid.Snowbreak: if you look at this separately, it is kinda dumb (which I admitted in my original reply), which is why I provided the context, because the gender war is no joke, and snow break just uses this as a tool to claim their side to comfort their player base (which is 99.9% male anyway) What is their opinion about mixed gender games? Will they play them? How did they survive the year of Genshin without new female characters? How do they deal with the fact that about 30-50% of future AAA gachagames will not be for them? All future AAA gachas will be mixed gender, except for Azur Promilia. Will they just ignore all the other AAA gachas and only play Azur Promilia? We all know those so called mixed gender games cater to men. Hyv treat their female player base as second class citizens. I simply won't play a gacha with male characters, they are disgusting and yes, they are second class citizens https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1bqns7c/snowbreak_is_replacing_all_male_logistics/kx5nm3z/ The anti male sentiment recently within gacha disgusts me Reply There are male only games out there. Go play those. There are also some that mix it up. Try them as well. No need to be disgusted by something not meant for you. Why does it disgust you? You just aren't the target audience for these titles. I don't get disgusted when reading about otome game launches. There are so many games in the space right now that cater to female audiences and mixed gender audiences and everything in between. Why can't you live with there being a large cohort of the market that wants heavily male-coded entertainment? Rereply Because it's fucking pathetic. There's nothing wrong with a harem game, but the people that are so fucking sad they can't even handle NPC men existing or interacting just completely ruins a game's story, worldbuilding, and entire sense of logic. People didn't freak out over HI3 having Otto, Kevin, Adam, etc (ok, Adam is hit or miss sometimes). No one loses their mind over the biggest tiddy game of them all right now, hell people simp for Andersen as much as they simp for the Nikkes. Even for your otome game example, all of them at least have numerous other women fucking exis Reply back Why do you care? Just play the games you like and ignore the games you don't. You aren't a paying customer of Snowbreak, why do you care what those customers want? Those customers aren't asking for every game to meet their preferences, just the very narrow slice of titles that they bankroll. Why not just live and let live? Reply back again don't care, cause you're right I don't play Snowbreak. I do care about this movement as a whole, because as an avid Girls Frontline lover for years these stupid beta fucks are doing their best to drag Mica into a ditch and probably keep GFL 2 from even launching over here, and you better believe it pisses me the fuck off. From one of the best written and complex political dramas in the genre to "M-muh DaIyAn GoT A KeyChAiN FrOm A Man!!11!!!1!" Fucking pathetic. Thread continues, just read that link Other choice comments from the thread and r/snowbreak before we end this segment That was the reason why Azur Lane CN players became hostile to any kind of game with male character especially when the Developer of their game Manjuu even have a slightest chance to make another AK by themselves not just some publisher ties like Yostar. Also AK CN "Silverash fans" crying over his skin with the boys because the Yume (husbando lovers self insert players) felt Raymond'ed from Silverash with that skin. Good and based. I don't understand how gacha devs don't understand their fanbase. We don't want to see ugly men in our games. If I wanted to see y'all I'd go on Reddit. Its a fucking Waifu game, there shouldn't be men, that's why modern gaming is failing. Anyone who criticizes this decision is a fucking loser cucklord. They are our girls, we don't want them to be corrupted like what MICA did with GFL. I'm glad as it reduces the chance of a rogue feminist writer coming in and cucking us Back to the main topic - So as you can see, the community 10 months ago, started to chance as devs started to pander to the "gooner" community or people who love their female units. They started doing romances, marriages, waifus, and entire romance storylines in game. Also ALOT of fanservice in trailers. Boob physics, the works. And it worked. The game became VERY profitable with revenue being higher than ever. The con is the community went from a small niche community with some people obsessed with the girls and mostly enjoyed the gameplay to being all about the characters and storyline and the sex appeal. It like pivoting from selling white makeup to clowns, then realizing you can make a better profit by selling it to Juggalos. Now your community is 1% clown, 99% Juggalo. The community APEshit over the patch, leading the game to be taken down THAT DAY for maintenance. Not only that, but in the CN community on their forums rabid fans were demanding more drastic changes, or male extinction. https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F3px14uuaelzd1.png (image of the events) They Found out that 01 refers to Male NPC in closed beta, and they started saying any image or text with "01" should be banned/removed from the game - https://www.reddit.com/r/SnowbreakOfficial/comments/1e0k9k1/why_we_cn_bros_are_so_crazy_you_will_understand/ Choice comments https://www.reddit.com/r/SnowbreakOfficial/comments/1e0k9k1/why_we_cn_bros_are_so_crazy_you_will_understand/lcnkvmt/ It's so weird that women who don't like the fanservice of SB still complain about it? Like are there dudes who complain about fanservice in game like Love and Deepspace? Just play what you like and ignore the one you don't like, it's not that serious :51468: It's a recent trend in gacha games I have noticed after Genshin's popularity. It's a similar issue in shipping wars where m/f ships are criticised to hell just cause they prefer the m/m or f/f ship more. As a woman, i genuinely don't understand this mindset. These people are ironically the biggest hypocrites, they'd be surprised how many women artists there are who draw these sexy revealing designs and enjoy them https://www.reddit.com/r/SnowbreakOfficial/comments/1e0k9k1/why_we_cn_bros_are_so_crazy_you_will_understand/lcngrqp/ Yes basically according to what he explains it is something similar. this is an "easter egg" as I understood from his publication, there was a male character called Lingyi, according to what i read in bilibili, in short, is a character from the beta with drama like Raymond from GFL2, which is because this character was eliminated from CBT1 a year before the game was released. the number 01 is Yi in Chinese, the logistics in principle had 01 and 02 as he places in the images and the dude in charge of the art placed this "easter egg" with the aim of making cn players uncomfortable and he placed in both logistics "01" it is like a kind of indirect wink, sometimes they cannot be detected if you do not know the complete context or you don't know the native language of the game, very similar to blue archive in the West where Korean players are mostly the ones who detect it. but well, i will never understand the bitter desire of trying to put together these dramas at the expense of your work, https://www.reddit.com/r/SnowbreakOfficial/comments/1e0k9k1/why_we_cn_bros_are_so_crazy_you_will_understand/lcnktz8/ Good comment and replies lmao I'm from SEA, and the comments from some of the Western bros is disheartening. You say it's overreacting, well, take a look at your own gaming landscape see how it's going for you guys. What's are some big games in the Western sphere that's worth a damn. Starfield? Suicide Squad? Skull and Bones? Spider-man 2, where every other mission is LGBT whatever theme and Black Cat is in lesbian relationship and MJ has square jaw? Horizon 2, where the main protag is played by Nikocado Avocado? What about upcoming games? AC Shadows? That Star Wars game where you play a butch woman? Fable, the game where you play a butch woman? Or that new Overwatch-like game where you have pronouns on the tittle screen? Or the new Dragon Age: Fortnite Edition? What about outside of gaming? How's that's new Star Wars show going? How's that new Doctor Who show's going? What about the Witcher TV shows? The Lord of the Rings? Is the MCU still good? Holy shit, you let your own huge media franchises be mutilated and desecrated and now you have the gall to say CN overreacting, while being over here playing a Chinese made game. You are too occupied with being virtuous that you would let people gaslight and walk all over you. It's sad. Western bros, I used to look at you guys with eyes of admiration and inspiration, but what I'm seeing right now to the Western sphere is possibly the closest thing to seeing the Roman Empire fall in real time. And you're just gonna take it? Reply The West is mostly a bunch of beta cucks who sit back as everything gets stolen from them. I'm not speaking hypothetically -- just look at all the woke shit going on. It's literally happening because Western males let it happen and/or are complicit. This cultural cancer is literally why China bans the alphabet pronoun squad from its games. You don't tolerate cancer. You cut it out. This comment is real btw - https://www.reddit.com/r/SnowbreakOfficial/comments/1e0k9k1/why_we_cn_bros_are_so_crazy_you_will_understand/lcnlibd/ Just keep on fighting the good fight Eastern bros and don't mind the stuff reddit says. https://www.reddit.com/r/SnowbreakOfficial/comments/1e0k9k1/why_we_cn_bros_are_so_crazy_you_will_understand/lcndutk/ Soo, CN bros were chipped away with small things a lot and now SB is the last bastion of boiz being horny and happy for it. Sheeesh https://www.reddit.com/r/SnowbreakOfficial/comments/1e0k9k1/why_we_cn_bros_are_so_crazy_you_will_understand/lcnh9ih/ So, u mean your chinese male ego is so fragile, that by simply putting mention about DELETED MALE CHARACTER mock u and u go to Battlefield for this? XD What a horrible day for male gacha gamer in China. XD oh lord. THIS PART COMPARES 01 to SLAVERY https://www.reddit.com/r/SnowbreakOfficial/comments/1e0k9k1/why_we_cn_bros_are_so_crazy_you_will_understand/lcndllo/ u call it silly? look at the debauchery of Yasuke the [slave] samurai drama happening now frm AC series the whole point is not giving an inch tat escalates into a mile. Break - Most of you probably need a little break at this point so here's my take before we dive back in. There is more really unhinged takes from the official Snowbreak Sub, but most of them are very very very unhinged, and I need a better word for racist as being called racist/Xphobic is a disservice to actual racists as its just THAT bad over there. Like the KKK would say, chill over a FICTIONAL girl. Again, look at the upvotes on the official Snowbreak sub vs gacha. They are upvoting some of the unhinged takes. https://www.reddit.com/r/SnowbreakOfficial/comments/1e0k9k1/why_we_cn_bros_are_so_crazy_you_will_understand/lcnjudb/ I like how the entire post is "THIS WAR WE HAVE TO ENDURE FOR OUR CAUSE AND IDEALS! WE WON'T BACK DOWN, WE WON'T SURRENDER" and the actual context is two mentally deranged groups of different genders caring way too much about pngs. I wish I had your problems, CN bros https://www.reddit.com/r/SnowbreakOfficial/comments/1e0k9k1/why_we_cn_bros_are_so_crazy_you_will_understand/lcndnhh/ I'm impressed by how pathetic this is. I'm an S tier degen and even I feel mildly vicariously embarrassed. Reply Because you're not living there and right in the middle of a culture war between 2 sexes. Where one side is doing petty "haha gotcha" type shit just to tally up to their side as a win against your side. "We don't like your game, we don't play your game, we hate you, but we got something put in your game that you didn't like, to show we have influence over it" it's that simple. ... Who the fuck cares?That's the whiniest little bitch energy shit I've ever read and I've been on Reddit for over a decade.I'm fuckin American, the Republicans make actual legislation just to 'own the libs'. I'm still not going to cry as hard as these losers did over a number. So yeah I already am well aware of what it's like to be in a cultural war. This is still fucking embarrassing. Back to the main point Began speculating that since the female shapeshifter can shift into any character, the boss was probably fucking all of our females and since shapeshifting is 1-1, the boss knows more of our females' sexual weaknesses than we, the protag does and therefore can cuck us at any moment leading to a "mindbreak". An NPC called one of our females who is named Yao, "Sis Yao" which in Chinese sounds like "prostitute" and she pushes the protag away when he tries to kiss her, a big no no as the writer wrote her to be "ungrateful" Warning, more racism The devs officially delays NITA due to the events to next year, as she is a light dark skin character which is bad (those who play Hoyo games know where this goes). https://snowbreak.fandom.com/wiki/Nita to appeal to the gooner crowd. She might be made more light skin later. Dev Response took the game down for maintainance Held an emergency livestream with face reveal to profusely apologize for several minutes (the face reveal is important as they have never shown themselves before, but this incident was so large, they had to put a target for ppl to see) Fired Most of the people "responsible" for the event https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1glugsm/seasun_snowbreak_fires_some_peoples_responsible/ Comment Time https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1glugsm/seasun_snowbreak_fires_some_peoples_responsible/lvybk3m/ The contentious shift in direction turned the game into a culture war icon. This results in both more drama, and every snowbreak drama getting a post here, while other game's dramas mostly stay contained in their own communities. https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1glugsm/seasun_snowbreak_fires_some_peoples_responsible/lvx7x7y/ Game director is the most toxic in the industry right now. Dude is lying out his ass and pointing fingers for his own failures. Naturally going to cause drama. Reply he claimed the shanghai cliche (mainly mihoyo) is running feminism DEI themed campaign against their big boobed game. Bro is just saying words at this point, if Mihoyo actually had a DEI department people wouldn't be invoking the white pharaoh anytime a new region dropped It is just an excuse for their offensive behavior. The ESG activities of CN companies are mainly environmental protection, which is very different from DEI in the general context imagine just merely being mixed gender gacha means DEI campaign to them... these people nuts https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1glugsm/seasun_snowbreak_fires_some_peoples_responsible/lvy3ml2/ till mad cuz he insulted your precious Jen shine Bro is fighting WW3 in the comments, lmao deleted reply When WW3 happens I hope you get cucked as much as we did today. I hope you know the pain of seeing your loved ones ravaged in front of you. https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1glugsm/seasun_snowbreak_fires_some_peoples_responsible/lvy33tr/ "Let me briefly explain why CN SB community is angry with the new main storyline. The new main storyline has the following issues: The interactions between Yao and adjutant are very strange. Inappropriate timing for kissing from adjutant and Yao‘s resistance to adjutant contradict the previous story. The villain engages in sexual intercourse with the enemy which can transform into someone else‘s appearance(it transformed into Fenny and Lyfe in 2.0). This is meaningless and disgusting. Using derogatory homophones to address Yao. The writer even recognized this and emphasized it in the story. The villain kills child in the story. Also meaningless and disgusting." Basically things a normal person (that isn't a 14 year old that soypogs on Reddit over unnecessary character deaths because of how GriTTy™️ it makes the story) would justifiably be upset about. https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1glugsm/seasun_snowbreak_fires_some_peoples_responsible/lvxmobx/ Is it just me or is it kind of in bad taste to just publicly announce you're firing your employees here? It's like, you think throwing a few guys under the bus is going to fix things? All this is showing me you've got a toxic culture in your company Reply to the CN players this just basically sounds like they have captured the infiltrating "spy" from "enemy army" and kicked them out, yeah they treat this like a war unironically I realize this sounds bad, but you lack context That I can agree, I just admire one aspect of their behavior because this comment section is full of cultists trying to attack them. You admire the fact a bunch of online crazies managed to bully an employee out of a job while their bosses remain unaccountable?) Edit for the snowflake: why aren't they firing the people who approved the "undermining the Kingsoft"? Because they found a scapegoat to point a finger and avoid any kind of responsibility. Again submitted by /u/Flares117 to r/HobbyDrama [link] [comments]

Welcome back, those who loves internet drama. This is an update to my last gacha post https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1hvir4v/the_ntr_drama_has_finally_come_to_global_as_girls/ , a few weeks ago. I planned to do the update a week or so ago, but instead posted the much more juicy TikTok drama that most of you saw, judging by the comments. Therefore, I have considerably more time for this segment and included various other dramas in the gacha community over the past year with the same theme, rather than this being solely about GirlFrontline, it all ties together. Context - Gacha games are usually F2P live service video games, typically mobile with some PC versions where you "pull" or roll for characters like you would a slot machine. Costs can very from 50 cent a "pull" to 5$ a pull for some of the spendy gachas. Typically you pull for "waifus" or girl characters in the popular gachas, some games have transitioned as they found people would usually only pull for female characters. Then some added romance. In my original post, it is regarding the release of "Daiyan" to the global version of Girls Frontline 2, which as I covered extensively in the above link, involves Chinese players getting outraged to the point of death threats, harassing the Voice Actress, commissioning NTR hentai to spam Daiyan fans, and almost causing the game company to shut down the game, resulting in a steep decline in userbase as the communities of other gachas, most notably Snowbreak clowning on the GFL community as being cucks. The reason for being, the character talked positively about a male character in an event story (full dialogue and transcriptions in the og post). This is alot to unpack, so take your time to digest this info and read the aforementioned links before diving in. This will be a post split into 3 segments, featuring 3 gacha communities and their relation to the event. I do not expect you to read all of this drama in one go. I just had extra time cause of my last post. Prologue : Aftermath of GFL2 and r/girlsfrontline - Short segment Voice Actress was replaced after harassment campaign and apology statement -https://weibo.com/7367502517/P599xdxbe You can read more on that in og post. For voicing the character, she apologized, but gone quiet and the studio cannot contact her. AFAIK and from numerous posts, she is done with that side of the community. https://www.reddit.com/r/GirlsFrontline2/comments/1i3fs2y/so_chat_whats_overall_opinion_on_daiyan_on_global/ New events are unvoiced as they transition voice actresses. Storyline was finally rewritten 3 times. First by changing the male character to a girl, then removing the character entirely, then removing the entire terrorist plot. While NTR nsfw content was spammed, CN users who participated in trying to kill GFL2 in the west stopped after realizing western audiences don't care and some enjoyed receiving free porn. Snowbreak released a story update. The MAIN point (some ppl will say there is more to it and I WILL GET THERE), is in the story a shapeshifter shifts into one of your pullable girls, and sleeps with the bad guy. Your girl does not sleep with them, a shapeshifter shifts into her and sleeps with them. This sparks SEVERE backlash by the community within 24 hours (12 hours really). The devs had an emergency livestream, where they profusely apologized for the update - https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2F03gj1a2rgpzd1.png%3Fwidth%3D668%26format%3Dpng%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3D33963d2a0876da671d3e04217075f6d9eb80d860 People in CN and the West threatened a boycott and chargebacks regarding the game (comments will be posted after summary) * Part 1 - Snowbreak Controversy - I will put the comments at the end of the segment. Context - Snowbreak devs initially participated in the harassment and mocking of GFL players and devs https://t.bilibili.com/888491075582296064 - There are dozens of posts on weibo/billibilli etc. To Summarize, the devs went, "We would never do this to our players, etc etc". So their userbreak harassed GFL players calling them cucks/greenhats. Drama - However, last month, after the initial harassment of GFL players, they had their own controversial NTR/CUCK drama https://t.bilibili.com/888491075582296064 https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1gm8ojk/heavy_cringe_warning_translation_what_went_wrong/ - Main HEAVY HEAVY HEAVY HEAVY Cringe warning. https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1gmobsk/recap_of_the_snowbreak_developers_livestream/ https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1glugsm/seasun_snowbreak_fires_some_peoples_responsible/ https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1fye16l/snowbreak_will_no_longer_work_with_cosplayers/ I could link from the snowbreak sub, but uh. There is too many NSFW links there. Summary or key drama points Snowbreak Originally was LESS horny at launch (still horny) - After a player breakdown/survey in CN and Asian communities they found that a very sizable and comedic % of their playerbase was single males ( It was in the 90%, ppl meme it was probably 99%). Their metadata also showed that a majority of their purchases were towards female characters. So they pivoted hard into the horny side. Part 1.5 - Male NPC extinction Event https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1bqns7c/snowbreak_is_replacing_all_male_logistics/ - So Hard, they began replacing male characters with female characters - Yes, almost every male NPC since then are slowly being redesigned to be female. (This segment is 1.5 as there are just too many juicy comments relating to this drama that I'll include it here, but skip if you don't care) https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1bqns7c/snowbreak_is_replacing_all_male_logistics/kx3nf0g/ Im more surprised people are surprised this is a thing, have you played Snowbreak the past few months? We went from having chubby astronaut suits that covered characters from head to toe, to half ripped schoolgirl outfits, its very clear which demographic this game is targeting. This "coomer bait" doubled their revenue. (There's even a post about it on this very subreddit) Ever wondered why games like Nikke are so successful in the first place? Surely for its gripping story and male characters no doubt Coomer bait prolonged it's life, but after Katrina dropped, it started going back on a downwards trend. String bikinis can only carry a mid tier product so far before people start realizing how mid it is and drop it for better products. Ever wondered why games like Nikke are so successful in the first place? Surely for its gripping story and male characters no doubt. Ass might bring in the players initially, but almost every Nikke fan I've seen also gush about the story, music, and the gameplay in harder modes. Also, my opinion, I'm not a player; however, as an avid enjoyer of lewd, Nikke's designs have style and soul, and are actually attractive in ways that go beyond emphasizing sex appeal. Snowbreak's designs in contrast, look like desperate cringe levels of fanservice designed by people who've only ever looked at low tier Nutaku games for examples of sexy women in fanservicey outfits. https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1bqns7c/snowbreak_is_replacing_all_male_logistics/kx6wet7/ if pure coom is enough to always draw a crowd, H-gacha would be among the most resilient gacha out there. As it stands people also want to play a good game (RIP Magicami, you were good, but not good enough). Turns out even the horniest coomer experiences post nut clarity. https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1bqns7c/snowbreak_is_replacing_all_male_logistics/kx9euns/ Have they given Caroline her Purple G-String back? I'll go back if they did. https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1bqns7c/snowbreak_is_replacing_all_male_logistics/kx3lsva/ I play snowbreak but it is ridiculous Reply Yea this is hitting extreme territory now. The changes before were means for the game to continue. Now it looks like they are fostering a toxic degen community. Rip my hopes for techwear skins That’s because they’re main spenders are CN and you saw the GFL2 drama. https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1bqns7c/snowbreak_is_replacing_all_male_logistics/kx4d00f/ Man.. so the player character is the only male there, then? https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1bqns7c/snowbreak_is_replacing_all_male_logistics/kx3ruoe/ I don't blame them at all. They are saving their game. People should've supported it the way it was before if they're going to act like this is such a crime now. Money talks and prude grandstanding doesn't. Reply It's prude grandstanding to have male characters? More GFL2 related comments https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1bqns7c/snowbreak_is_replacing_all_male_logistics/kx3ni6p/ It's not that, I believe. It's more like they don't want to attract the attention of the "crowd" that was attacking GFL2. Unlike in bigger gacha games, if Snowbreak takes a hit from those trolls, they might not be able to mitigate its effects. Hell, even Arknights decided to make art changes in response to the Korean ppsmall emoji outrage that took place not too long ago. Good, it shows that protests do work, I'm sick of these fucking incel woke losers wanting fat chicks and gay shit in our games https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1bqns7c/snowbreak_is_replacing_all_male_logistics/kx3l8hq/ Another schizo outbreak from CN players? Angry replies (there are comments in support, but this is drama) insecure whackjobs who think all women should be slaves to them basically any sign of a normal, human interaction between characters in a story might as well be Shakespearean NTR in their eyes if said characters are male and female, not a pure wahmen interaction that isnt them sucking up to the MC, aka them Reply to this This is abit extreme of a take. l would almost call it personal. Calm down simp I'm curious to know why you believe the word "simp" is applicable in this situation. Poor simp madge at the truth ;( https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1bqns7c/snowbreak_is_replacing_all_male_logistics/kx3qzk1/ "we cant make the game better so we'll just go full degen and milk these idiots for everything theyve got" Reply gacha in a nutshell all gacha gamers are idiots including f2p who gladly waste their own time away I would gladly play a game like Snowbreak for free. Better than those $70 AAA woke trash. https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1bqns7c/snowbreak_is_replacing_all_male_logistics/kx3lzkx/ Stuff like this makes me want to drop a game because it shows the devs have no vision and will just give in to every silly player demand because of weird player insecurities. It's genuinely embarrassing to even want this as a player I can't imaging being this pathetic Deleted replies (use WBM) When mihoyo axing hi3 events, manjuu retcon their character designs, did you bitch this hard? Fucking unalive yourself incel trash and leave us alone. We don't want to see smelly fat bastards in our games. Good long comments and replies https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1bqns7c/snowbreak_is_replacing_all_male_logistics/kx3xro9/ People here just lack background knowledge. The gender war in cn gacha community has been a thing for a long time. Male and female players used to play different games and the gacha community was in peace. Then genshin came out, which dragged both communities and was a huge success, then the gender war begins. Male players complain that the gacha companies make the most profit from them (which is likely true) but keep trying to attract female market by making hot male characters and ignore male players (for example, the infamous 0 female limited 5 star for an entire year incident in genshin), and the female gacha players are the loud minority that ruin the game (they are more outspoken in social media like weibo and complain about the game releasing too many hot girls, and even report those games to ccp to censor them, for example a hot female character in ptn was pulled off because of it). Also, the success of genshin makes other game companies to make similar games (nicknamed ‘mixed gender toilet games’), which make the male community more angry. Finally, after the gfl2 raymond incident, they realized even games with only female playable characters are not safe (it’s kinda funny but this was 100% dev’s fault. Imagine ur azur lane shipgirl gets a npc boyfriend in al2). So they start to riot, become more outspoken, and try to force the devs to cater one gender only. This is where we are now. The games have to choose one side: male only, female only, or the ‘mixed gender toilet’, and the devs need to be very clear about it and stick to it. This is why azur promilia had to announce they have only female playable characters and why snowbreak chose to replace their male npcs (which is a bit of an over-react, but I blame this to gfl2) I just think it is so unfair for people here to judge and criticize the cn players without the context. Also, it is not that they hate those mixed gender games. They just hate the devs being unclear with what they cater to and force them to choose a side. Reply Gender war: it is deeply related to the gender war outside gacha. It is a big social problem in China now. I absolutely hate this bullshit but blaming this to snowbreak devs and players is unfair. GFL2: The leader of gfl2 devs is a female dev called ‘star’, who pushes the narrative that ‘dolls have their own life’ in gfl2 and the raymond incident is just an example of it. I absolutely support women right but pushing this narrative with a ntr incident in a game that is 100% targeting male player base is beyond stupid.Snowbreak: if you look at this separately, it is kinda dumb (which I admitted in my original reply), which is why I provided the context, because the gender war is no joke, and snow break just uses this as a tool to claim their side to comfort their player base (which is 99.9% male anyway) What is their opinion about mixed gender games? Will they play them? How did they survive the year of Genshin without new female characters? How do they deal with the fact that about 30-50% of future AAA gachagames will not be for them? All future AAA gachas will be mixed gender, except for Azur Promilia. Will they just ignore all the other AAA gachas and only play Azur Promilia? We all know those so called mixed gender games cater to men. Hyv treat their female player base as second class citizens. I simply won't play a gacha with male characters, they are disgusting and yes, they are second class citizens https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1bqns7c/snowbreak_is_replacing_all_male_logistics/kx5nm3z/ The anti male sentiment recently within gacha disgusts me Reply There are male only games out there. Go play those. There are also some that mix it up. Try them as well. No need to be disgusted by something not meant for you. Why does it disgust you? You just aren't the target audience for these titles. I don't get disgusted when reading about otome game launches. There are so many games in the space right now that cater to female audiences and mixed gender audiences and everything in between. Why can't you live with there being a large cohort of the market that wants heavily male-coded entertainment? Rereply Because it's fucking pathetic. There's nothing wrong with a harem game, but the people that are so fucking sad they can't even handle NPC men existing or interacting just completely ruins a game's story, worldbuilding, and entire sense of logic. People didn't freak out over HI3 having Otto, Kevin, Adam, etc (ok, Adam is hit or miss sometimes). No one loses their mind over the biggest tiddy game of them all right now, hell people simp for Andersen as much as they simp for the Nikkes. Even for your otome game example, all of them at least have numerous other women fucking exis Reply back Why do you care? Just play the games you like and ignore the games you don't. You aren't a paying customer of Snowbreak, why do you care what those customers want? Those customers aren't asking for every game to meet their preferences, just the very narrow slice of titles that they bankroll. Why not just live and let live? Reply back again don't care, cause you're right I don't play Snowbreak. I do care about this movement as a whole, because as an avid Girls Frontline lover for years these stupid beta fucks are doing their best to drag Mica into a ditch and probably keep GFL 2 from even launching over here, and you better believe it pisses me the fuck off. From one of the best written and complex political dramas in the genre to "M-muh DaIyAn GoT A KeyChAiN FrOm A Man!!11!!!1!" Fucking pathetic. Thread continues, just read that link Other choice comments from the thread and r/snowbreak before we end this segment That was the reason why Azur Lane CN players became hostile to any kind of game with male character especially when the Developer of their game Manjuu even have a slightest chance to make another AK by themselves not just some publisher ties like Yostar. Also AK CN "Silverash fans" crying over his skin with the boys because the Yume (husbando lovers self insert players) felt Raymond'ed from Silverash with that skin. Good and based. I don't understand how gacha devs don't understand their fanbase. We don't want to see ugly men in our games. If I wanted to see y'all I'd go on Reddit. Its a fucking Waifu game, there shouldn't be men, that's why modern gaming is failing. Anyone who criticizes this decision is a fucking loser cucklord. They are our girls, we don't want them to be corrupted like what MICA did with GFL. I'm glad as it reduces the chance of a rogue feminist writer coming in and cucking us Back to the main topic - So as you can see, the community 10 months ago, started to chance as devs started to pander to the "gooner" community or people who love their female units. They started doing romances, marriages, waifus, and entire romance storylines in game. Also ALOT of fanservice in trailers. Boob physics, the works. And it worked. The game became VERY profitable with revenue being higher than ever. The con is the community went from a small niche community with some people obsessed with the girls and mostly enjoyed the gameplay to being all about the characters and storyline and the sex appeal. It like pivoting from selling white makeup to clowns, then realizing you can make a better profit by selling it to Juggalos. Now your community is 1% clown, 99% Juggalo. The community APEshit over the patch, leading the game to be taken down THAT DAY for maintenance. Not only that, but in the CN community on their forums rabid fans were demanding more drastic changes, or male extinction. https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F3px14uuaelzd1.png (image of the events) They Found out that 01 refers to Male NPC in closed beta, and they started saying any image or text with "01" should be banned/removed from the game - https://www.reddit.com/r/SnowbreakOfficial/comments/1e0k9k1/why_we_cn_bros_are_so_crazy_you_will_understand/ Choice comments https://www.reddit.com/r/SnowbreakOfficial/comments/1e0k9k1/why_we_cn_bros_are_so_crazy_you_will_understand/lcnkvmt/ It's so weird that women who don't like the fanservice of SB still complain about it? Like are there dudes who complain about fanservice in game like Love and Deepspace? Just play what you like and ignore the one you don't like, it's not that serious :51468: It's a recent trend in gacha games I have noticed after Genshin's popularity. It's a similar issue in shipping wars where m/f ships are criticised to hell just cause they prefer the m/m or f/f ship more. As a woman, i genuinely don't understand this mindset. These people are ironically the biggest hypocrites, they'd be surprised how many women artists there are who draw these sexy revealing designs and enjoy them https://www.reddit.com/r/SnowbreakOfficial/comments/1e0k9k1/why_we_cn_bros_are_so_crazy_you_will_understand/lcngrqp/ Yes basically according to what he explains it is something similar. this is an "easter egg" as I understood from his publication, there was a male character called Lingyi, according to what i read in bilibili, in short, is a character from the beta with drama like Raymond from GFL2, which is because this character was eliminated from CBT1 a year before the game was released. the number 01 is Yi in Chinese, the logistics in principle had 01 and 02 as he places in the images and the dude in charge of the art placed this "easter egg" with the aim of making cn players uncomfortable and he placed in both logistics "01" it is like a kind of indirect wink, sometimes they cannot be detected if you do not know the complete context or you don't know the native language of the game, very similar to blue archive in the West where Korean players are mostly the ones who detect it. but well, i will never understand the bitter desire of trying to put together these dramas at the expense of your work, https://www.reddit.com/r/SnowbreakOfficial/comments/1e0k9k1/why_we_cn_bros_are_so_crazy_you_will_understand/lcnktz8/ Good comment and replies lmao I'm from SEA, and the comments from some of the Western bros is disheartening. You say it's overreacting, well, take a look at your own gaming landscape see how it's going for you guys. What's are some big games in the Western sphere that's worth a damn. Starfield? Suicide Squad? Skull and Bones? Spider-man 2, where every other mission is LGBT whatever theme and Black Cat is in lesbian relationship and MJ has square jaw? Horizon 2, where the main protag is played by Nikocado Avocado? What about upcoming games? AC Shadows? That Star Wars game where you play a butch woman? Fable, the game where you play a butch woman? Or that new Overwatch-like game where you have pronouns on the tittle screen? Or the new Dragon Age: Fortnite Edition? What about outside of gaming? How's that's new Star Wars show going? How's that new Doctor Who show's going? What about the Witcher TV shows? The Lord of the Rings? Is the MCU still good? Holy shit, you let your own huge media franchises be mutilated and desecrated and now you have the gall to say CN overreacting, while being over here playing a Chinese made game. You are too occupied with being virtuous that you would let people gaslight and walk all over you. It's sad. Western bros, I used to look at you guys with eyes of admiration and inspiration, but what I'm seeing right now to the Western sphere is possibly the closest thing to seeing the Roman Empire fall in real time. And you're just gonna take it? Reply The West is mostly a bunch of beta cucks who sit back as everything gets stolen from them. I'm not speaking hypothetically -- just look at all the woke shit going on. It's literally happening because Western males let it happen and/or are complicit. This cultural cancer is literally why China bans the alphabet pronoun squad from its games. You don't tolerate cancer. You cut it out. This comment is real btw - https://www.reddit.com/r/SnowbreakOfficial/comments/1e0k9k1/why_we_cn_bros_are_so_crazy_you_will_understand/lcnlibd/ Just keep on fighting the good fight Eastern bros and don't mind the stuff reddit says. https://www.reddit.com/r/SnowbreakOfficial/comments/1e0k9k1/why_we_cn_bros_are_so_crazy_you_will_understand/lcndutk/ Soo, CN bros were chipped away with small things a lot and now SB is the last bastion of boiz being horny and happy for it. Sheeesh https://www.reddit.com/r/SnowbreakOfficial/comments/1e0k9k1/why_we_cn_bros_are_so_crazy_you_will_understand/lcnh9ih/ So, u mean your chinese male ego is so fragile, that by simply putting mention about DELETED MALE CHARACTER mock u and u go to Battlefield for this? XD What a horrible day for male gacha gamer in China. XD oh lord. THIS PART COMPARES 01 to SLAVERY https://www.reddit.com/r/SnowbreakOfficial/comments/1e0k9k1/why_we_cn_bros_are_so_crazy_you_will_understand/lcndllo/ u call it silly? look at the debauchery of Yasuke the [slave] samurai drama happening now frm AC series the whole point is not giving an inch tat escalates into a mile. Break - Most of you probably need a little break at this point so here's my take before we dive back in. There is more really unhinged takes from the official Snowbreak Sub, but most of them are very very very unhinged, and I need a better word for racist as being called racist/Xphobic is a disservice to actual racists as its just THAT bad over there. Like the KKK would say, chill over a FICTIONAL girl. Again, look at the upvotes on the official Snowbreak sub vs gacha. They are upvoting some of the unhinged takes. https://www.reddit.com/r/SnowbreakOfficial/comments/1e0k9k1/why_we_cn_bros_are_so_crazy_you_will_understand/lcnjudb/ I like how the entire post is "THIS WAR WE HAVE TO ENDURE FOR OUR CAUSE AND IDEALS! WE WON'T BACK DOWN, WE WON'T SURRENDER" and the actual context is two mentally deranged groups of different genders caring way too much about pngs. I wish I had your problems, CN bros https://www.reddit.com/r/SnowbreakOfficial/comments/1e0k9k1/why_we_cn_bros_are_so_crazy_you_will_understand/lcndnhh/ I'm impressed by how pathetic this is. I'm an S tier degen and even I feel mildly vicariously embarrassed. Reply Because you're not living there and right in the middle of a culture war between 2 sexes. Where one side is doing petty "haha gotcha" type shit just to tally up to their side as a win against your side. "We don't like your game, we don't play your game, we hate you, but we got something put in your game that you didn't like, to show we have influence over it" it's that simple. ... Who the fuck cares?That's the whiniest little bitch energy shit I've ever read and I've been on Reddit for over a decade.I'm fuckin American, the Republicans make actual legislation just to 'own the libs'. I'm still not going to cry as hard as these losers did over a number. So yeah I already am well aware of what it's like to be in a cultural war. This is still fucking embarrassing. Back to the main point Began speculating that since the female shapeshifter can shift into any character, the boss was probably fucking all of our females and since shapeshifting is 1-1, the boss knows more of our females' sexual weaknesses than we, the protag does and therefore can cuck us at any moment leading to a "mindbreak". An NPC called one of our females who is named Yao, "Sis Yao" which in Chinese sounds like "prostitute" and she pushes the protag away when he tries to kiss her, a big no no as the writer wrote her to be "ungrateful" Warning, more racism The devs officially delays NITA due to the events to next year, as she is a light dark skin character which is bad (those who play Hoyo games know where this goes). https://snowbreak.fandom.com/wiki/Nita to appeal to the gooner crowd. She might be made more light skin later. Dev Response took the game down for maintainance Held an emergency livestream with face reveal to profusely apologize for several minutes (the face reveal is important as they have never shown themselves before, but this incident was so large, they had to put a target for ppl to see) Fired Most of the people "responsible" for the event https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1glugsm/seasun_snowbreak_fires_some_peoples_responsible/ Comment Time https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1glugsm/seasun_snowbreak_fires_some_peoples_responsible/lvybk3m/ The contentious shift in direction turned the game into a culture war icon. This results in both more drama, and every snowbreak drama getting a post here, while other game's dramas mostly stay contained in their own communities. https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1glugsm/seasun_snowbreak_fires_some_peoples_responsible/lvx7x7y/ Game director is the most toxic in the industry right now. Dude is lying out his ass and pointing fingers for his own failures. Naturally going to cause drama. Reply he claimed the shanghai cliche (mainly mihoyo) is running feminism DEI themed campaign against their big boobed game. Bro is just saying words at this point, if Mihoyo actually had a DEI department people wouldn't be invoking the white pharaoh anytime a new region dropped It is just an excuse for their offensive behavior. The ESG activities of CN companies are mainly environmental protection, which is very different from DEI in the general context imagine just merely being mixed gender gacha means DEI campaign to them... these people nuts https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1glugsm/seasun_snowbreak_fires_some_peoples_responsible/lvy3ml2/ till mad cuz he insulted your precious Jen shine Bro is fighting WW3 in the comments, lmao deleted reply When WW3 happens I hope you get cucked as much as we did today. I hope you know the pain of seeing your loved ones ravaged in front of you. https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1glugsm/seasun_snowbreak_fires_some_peoples_responsible/lvy33tr/ "Let me briefly explain why CN SB community is angry with the new main storyline. The new main storyline has the following issues: The interactions between Yao and adjutant are very strange. Inappropriate timing for kissing from adjutant and Yao‘s resistance to adjutant contradict the previous story. The villain engages in sexual intercourse with the enemy which can transform into someone else‘s appearance(it transformed into Fenny and Lyfe in 2.0). This is meaningless and disgusting. Using derogatory homophones to address Yao. The writer even recognized this and emphasized it in the story. The villain kills child in the story. Also meaningless and disgusting." Basically things a normal person (that isn't a 14 year old that soypogs on Reddit over unnecessary character deaths because of how GriTTy™️ it makes the story) would justifiably be upset about. https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1glugsm/seasun_snowbreak_fires_some_peoples_responsible/lvxmobx/ Is it just me or is it kind of in bad taste to just publicly announce you're firing your employees here? It's like, you think throwing a few guys under the bus is going to fix things? All this is showing me you've got a toxic culture in your company Reply to the CN players this just basically sounds like they have captured the infiltrating "spy" from "enemy army" and kicked them out, yeah they treat this like a war unironically I realize this sounds bad, but you lack context That I can agree, I just admire one aspect of their behavior because this comment section is full of cultists trying to attack them. You admire the fact a bunch of online crazies managed to bully an employee out of a job while their bosses remain unaccountable?) Edit for the snowflake: why aren't they firing the people who approved the "undermining the Kingsoft"? Because they found a scapegoat to point a finger and avoid any kind of responsibility. Again End for Now, I almost hit the word count limit on Reddit for this, so there will be a part 3 and maybe part 4 as I WAS going to include what I had written about another game related to the NTR drama, but its also long. I will post more next week or the week after, unless something big happens. Preview of next post - Porn Gacha who criticized the GFL drama changes core mechanics after most of the players choose to play Male Units (the loser in a pvp match gets their units RPED, so everyone uses male characters to not let their girls get ravaged, leading to a very gay game). submitted by /u/Flares117 to r/SubredditDrama [link] [comments]

I'm sorry, this is really long. Back story: I (59F) was married to my now ex (57M) we'll call him Ed for 10 years, together for 13, but originally met him 40 years ago as teenagers. He was in my circle of friends but we never dated. We used to live in Florida, but when I was 19 I moved back to Michigan where I am originally from. 27 years later I went back to the city in Florida where I used to live to visit friends. I ran into Ed while on vacation and we began talking on the phone daily. Three months later he left Florida and moved in with me. Three years later we were married. (Not my first but his first) We had our ups and downs but mainly we got along fine and didn't argue much. He would throw tantrums if things didn't go his way and would "punish me" by sleeping on the edge of the bed, which was fine with me or he would not talk to me and slam things. Two years into our marriage things went horribly wrong when he got into drugs. It was horrible. One night I finally had enough and was on the phone with my MIL telling her I was sending back to Florida when the Sheriff's department knocked on my door. Someone had found my husband unconscious, severely beaten, in a ditch a block from our house. (We lived in a small village with woods across the street) I raced to the hospital and didn't recognize him when I saw him. He was so swollen and bruised. Now, my husband was a man who could fight and he was strong. Come to find out it took 3 men to do this. They thought they could rob him since it was pay day but he had been home and purposely left his wallet at home. I sat with him 24/7 while he was in Neuro/Trauma ICU. I slept on a couch in his room, I prayed over him, I bathed him and took care of him even after he came home. This actually saved his life. He got clean and went back to work full time, always putting me and my grandson first before his needs. He went to work and came home. That's it. Four years later I finished my education and became an ordained Priest and have been the pastor at my church ever since. At first he didn't mind, but then he would say things like "I didn't sign up for this" even though I never pushed church on him. I knew he believed in God and he prayed daily. I would invite him to Christmas and Easter service and he also came when I ordained and when my grandson, who calls him Grandpa, was baptized. For several years things were really good. Then suddenly he began coming home from work, showering, changing clothes and leaving. At first he said it was to watch whatever sports was playing on TV because we didn't have live TV. Then he told me he'd be back whenever he got back. Then, things went back to how they were. We laughed a lot, we joked around, and I began getting the usual kiss goodbye before he left for work. One night, he had done his laundry, like he always did and I talked to him while he was folding it. He never wanted me to do his laundry so that wasn't new. We ended the night laughing as he was trying on old clothes. The next morning I woke up and went out to the living room to ask what time he had to be at work but he was gone. I assumed he had to be there early. I walked back into the bedroom and saw his keys on the bed which made me wonder why he would walk to work on such a cold day. It was December 1st. I started leaving the bedroom again and noticed his laundry basket missing so I went to the laundry room and it wasn't there. I went back into the bedroom and noticed his closet empty. I called him to see where he was and asked if he had moved out and of course his answer was yes. Come to find out he had met a woman at his job who works for one of those shopping apps where people buy and deliver your groceries. (He worked for a large grocery store chain) He had moved in with her. Over the next 6 months he called almost daily and would say things like "Our marriage will survive this, just give me time" He even told me he would be mad if I began dating. During one of our phone calls he told me he wasn't happy with her and was going down to Florida to visit family. He said he wanted to come back to me when he came back to Michigan. The plan was this... He would pack things that he couldn't live without but leave things at his new gf's house to make her think he was coming home to her. He planned on giving his 2 week notice while gone and planned on looking for another job when he came home. By this time I knew I didn't want him back. I found my self worth again and had made new friends with neighbors once he was gone. Come to find out nobody liked him. Even the women at the gas station across the street told me how he flirted with them when he came in. Even an Elder at my church found out he was cheating but didn't tell me because she didn't want to hurt me. So I went to the courthouse and got a divorce package and filled out all of the paperwork. Where I live I was able to serve him myself. I decided that since he chose to end our marriage while working at the store, I would officially end it there. So, the day before he was supposed to fly to Florida I made sure I looked really good. New hairstyle, make-up, and my outfit was sexy. I went to his job, found him, and handed him the divorce papers. I told him that he was wrong. Our marriage wasn't surviving this. You should have seen his face. He was actually upset with tears in his eyes and for a moment I felt bad. Then I reminded myself what he had done to me. He didn't just leave me in the middle of the night, but he stopped talking and doing things with my grandson who thought Grandpa was the greatest. He left me in a house that I couldn't afford without him, and I would have been homeless if my church wouldn't have paid for an apartment. He told me women were stupid. He actually thought he could come home as if nothing happened. That was one thing he said to me on the phone because I never brought up the past. Last week, six months after our divorce was final, my car was repossessed. When we were together he got two loans and I agreed to use my SUV as collateral because I never pictured my life without him. He stopped paying on his loans so they took my car. I wasn't notified because they sent him the letters. They wanted me to pay off his loans to get it back. I burst out laughing and said that will never happen. So, my question is was I the AH for serving him the way I did? submitted by /u/Acaica65 to r/CharlotteDobreYouTube [link] [comments]

I’ve been eagerly awaiting the day someone makes a masterpost of theylor evidence but eventually I got tired of waiting and was too excited about the idea, so I decided to make it myself. I pulled together things I thought of myself and also culled information from past posts and comments that discussed it. I’m interested in hearing what evidence people think should be added to this collection. I tried to credit things that I found from other posts, but please let me know if I missed something and I’ll credit. So first, what is theylor? Theylor is the theory that Taylor is gender expansive. Just like gaylor doesn’t necessarily prescribe what brand of queer taylor is, theylor doesn’t necessarily prescribe a specific gender identity. There are many possibilities including nonbinary, genderfluid, genderqueer, transmasc, bigender, etc. Although I don’t argue for any specific label – because we don’t know – I do discuss quite a bit the idea of a masc or male side versus a femme or female side, because I think a lot of evidence suggests that. A note on pronouns: I spent a while trying to decide if I should use they/them pronouns. It felt appropriate given that this is a theylor post, and as a nonbinary person myself who uses they/them pronouns, I kind of wanted to. But not all gender expansive people use they/them pronouns, and as I stated above, there are many categories and labels that she could fall under. Moreover, “theylor” isn’t the theory that she specifically uses they/them pronouns – it’s the theory that she’s gender expansive, and that could include a variety of possibilities regarding pronouns. For instance, genderfluid and bigender people often switch back and forth between he/him and she/her or use both; some might additionally use they/them and some might not. Ultimately I took my cues from Taylor Nation who uses she/her pronouns for Taylor. As far as we know those are her stated pronouns and I chose to respect that. Another important note: I want to say from the start that I fully recognize that some of this evidence can also be read as masc lesbian/wlw. That’s completely valid. But there are certain things that can’t fit so easily into that category. So I hope that skeptics will consider this with the same view that gaylors take with gaylor evidence: that certain things in isolation perhaps can be explained away, but the collective mountain of evidence is much harder to ignore. Here we go. ​ Midnight Rain On Midnight Rain Taylor synthed her voice so it sounds like it’s male, which alternates with her regular voice. This male voice is still singing from her POV, because they repeat the exact same chorus lyrics, so it doesn’t seem as if it’s intended to be an imitation of a duet involving two different people. Instead it sounds like the masc and femme sides of her are both chiming in. The lyrics themselves can also be interpreted as theylor-coded. He wanted a bride / I was making my own name / Chasing that fame The hidden male side of her wanted to unite with the rest of her so she could be her authentic self, but she desired fame and to achieve all these dreams – and knew that to do so she’d have to hide away that male or genderqueer part of herself. ​ Using men as mirror images of herself in music videos: Style, Willow, and Fortnight Style mv There could be an entire theylor post devoted to the Style mv alone because it’s so loud. It has some of the most explicit and extensive theylor evidence of any mv she’s ever made. Both Taylor and the male lead hold up mirrored shards to their face, and the other person is reflected back. For example, the man holds up a shard to his mouth and Taylor’s mouth appears instead. This suggests that they are two sides of the same person. There are also several instances where her image gets cracked and fractured. In most of these she’s alone; in the one scene where the man can be seen as well, they’re not interacting and they look like they’re in two separate places. The cracking of the surface of these images indicates that when they’re separated, her true self is fractured, broken, and incomplete. screenshots from Style: holding up mirrors and cracked images Images of the man are superimposed on her face, hands, and body; and images of Taylor are superimposed on him as well. There’s a particularly interesting scene where we first see her face, and then she raises her hands so they cover her face, and the man’s face appears superimposed on her hands, echoing the mirror shard images. In a similar vein, there are a couple different scenes where the man is looking out at the ocean from within her silhouetted body and head. In conjunction with the other scenes, this suggests the man lives within her. One of the most explicit scenes is when the man is driving a car, and he looks in the rearview mirror and we see that it’s actually Taylor driving. screenshots from Style: superimposed images and Taylor/the man driving Lastly, the actor playing the male, Dominic Sherwood, has heterochromia, which is when someone is born with two different eye colors. I think he was chosen for this role deliberately, and that the two eye colors might represent two different sides of her gender identity. This is supported by another scene where his eyes are superimposed on her outstretched arms, one on each side. screenshots from Style: heterochromia All these examples suggest that she and the man are the same person – male and female in the same body. ​ Willow mv Willow contains a series of scenes where a man mirrors her in different ways. First, Taylor looks into the water and sees a man reflected back where her own reflection should be. This is one of the clearest pieces of visual evidence in support of theylor, similar to the rearview mirror example in Style. Willow mv: looking in the water and a man is her reflection She plays with the child-male version of herself and then he disappears and she’s sad and confused. There’s a great deal of evidence suggested in the following sections of references to her losing or being separated from her male side. Willow screenshots: playing with the boy and then he disappears There are multiple scenes where they hold their hands up to each other like they are mirror images, and then at the end they clasp hands and walk out together into the daylight. Willow screenshots: holding her hand up to the man's and then they walk out together ​ Fortnight mv The theory that Taylor and Post Malone are the same person was brilliantly covered by u/18hundreds in this post; she has his tattoos, they wear the same clothes, etc. However I disagree with that post’s conclusion that male figure represents the public Taylor, the clean version that she presents to the world. Rather, I think that Post Malone represents the male or masc side she’s hiding. One of the most important scenes is when Taylor is given pills from a bottle labeled “FORGET HIM” and the bottle shows dates covering her whole life, from her birth to the date that the music video was published. Since it starts from birth, this certainly can’t represent forgetting a dude she dated. However I think it also can’t represent the public Taylor because there was no public Taylor the day she was born, nor was there for several years after that. However, if she sensed that she was born with a masc side or a male inside of her, and she was socialized to be and act like a girl, and instinctively understood that she had to hide that queer male part of herself, then the dates make more sense. Additionally, the two streams of lesbian-flag and gay-flag colored light that float out of the two typewriters and become an explosion of white when they meet may represent both the masc and femme sides of her that are equally contributing to her work. When they are united, when she is whole, is when she is strongest. Fortnight screenshots: Forget him pills and the streams of light Lastly, there’s a callback to the Style mv, where the sheets of paper are shaped like her silhouette and she and the masc version of herself are lying in the middle. This mirrors the Style scene where the man appears inside of her head. Fortnight and Style screenshots that echo each other ​ Me! music video Right at the line “and there’s a lot of lame guys out there” there are several different men falling from the sky. Among them is Taylor. Credit for this is u/Front-Inevitable7767 here. Taylor falling in Me! The suit and hairstyle in one of the scenes is also extremely masculine: Me! screenshot: taylor in a suit Even more interestingly, she alternates masc and femme outfits in the mv, starting with ultra femme in the white skirt, then the masc yellow suit, then the femme pink dress, then the suit and shorts cowboy boots combination, and ending with the femme paint dress: Alternating masc and femme outfits in Me! ​ You Need to Calm Down music video One of the first scenes is of a framed painting with the quote, “Mom, I am a rich man.” Though this is a Cher quote, it’s also extremely theylor-coded. YNTCD screenshot: Mom I'm a rich man ​ Mean music video In the Mean mv, Joey King is wearing a dress with a blue bow and isn’t accepted by all the other girls wearing pink bows. This might symbolize the masc side of Taylor not being accepted by society or in the music industry. There are many other ways that Taylor could have visualized a girl not fitting in with other girls. But she specifically distinguished them using only colors that are widely considered representation for the two binary genders. Joey King in Mean and the blue and pink bows In the mv for I Can See You, in the hall where Taylor’s old outfits are locked in glass closets, the young girl’s dress with the blue bow appears again: Same dress in ICSY This suggests that her masc side is closeted along with her gay side. ​ The Man Both the song and mv. An entire work about if she was a man. Performed in full drag. The use of ‘was’ versus ‘were’ in “if I was a man” is interesting. I’m not certain how much stock to put in this one because of the scene in Miss Americana where she’s writing this line and she goes back and forth between them, seemingly based solely on how they sound. But they have two different usages in proper English grammar. Sourcing from the grammar.com page on this, “if I was” is used when it’s a situation that could have happened. “If I were” is used for a situation that could never happen, an imaginary scenario, something that couldn’t ever be true. If you consider her to be cis, then she’s using the wrong one. In that case it should have been “if I were a man” because it’s an imaginary and hypothetical situation. But she used “if I was a man,” indicating a situation that could have happened. ​ Taylor Nation called her “The Man” TN calls her \"The Man\" ​ Delicate Although I’m trying to keep this whole post muse-free because muses aren’t all that relevant to theylor, I wanted to include this comparison between the Delicate scene where Taylor gets on the train to Dianna’s performance on The Killer’s mv for “Just Another Girl,” because I suspect this is being referenced based on the similarities. And most relevant to theylor: Dianna is in drag. Taylor in Delicate and Dianna in drag in Just Another Girl ​ I Bet You Think About Me There was a great analysis by u/Sea_Dress_8957 that the groom in the mv represents Taylor and her masc side, and that in the song she’s talking to herself. I won’t rehash the evidence that’s already listed in that post, but one thing to add is in the mv’s opening scene with all the men lined up at the urinals, one of them is wearing a skirt, certainly implying gender nonconformity and possibly genderqueerness too. This comment by u/SubwayGirlsInTheMan in that post also points out that the groom and The Man are wearing the same shoes, further connecting these two mvs, in addition to the halos around the groom’s head and the Man’s head. ​ Ready For It? and the two Taylors In RFI, the two Taylors hold up their hands to each other, echoing the scenes in Willow with the man: RFI screenshot that was echoed in Willow scenes The two Taylors, which appear in more videos than just RFI, have been discussed a lot. They are usually taken to represent the public Taylor versus the private Taylor. But from a theylor perspective they can also symbolize the masc and femme sides of her, and her struggle to reconcile and unite the two. If Willow is visualizing that with the way their hands are held up to each other on either side of glass, then the fact that the two Taylors did the exact same motion in RFI is interesting. The two Taylors also reminds me of the very gay, very masc outfit she wore as she exited the stadium after the Eras tour in Vegas. The vibe of the outfit is a stark contrast to the costumes in the tour and some of the outfits she wears on pap walks, and I always think of it when considering theylor. ​ The Joker and the Queen King The lyric video for Ed Sheeran’s “The Joker and the Queen” shows Taylor wearing the king’s crown. ​ Fearless TV cover On the OG Fearless cover, Taylor’s wearing a white dress and looking to her right. But on the TV version, she’s wearing a shirt that looks very similar to Romeo’s shirt in Love Story, and she’s also looking in the opposite direction, to her left. By doing this she’s rewriting the Fearless narrative to position herself as a man, Romeo, and creating a visual distinction from the very femme OG cover. Fearless TV cover and Romeo ​ King Phoebe Bridgers called Taylor “king” in an interview, then did it again on an Instagram story. Gracie Abrams also called her “king.” Note that Taylor also called Lana “king” which might take away from this theory but there’s a lot of masc words being tossed around nonetheless. ​ “A Girl Named Girl” As a 14 year old, Taylor wrote a novel called “A Girl Named Girl” about a mother who wanted a son but got a daughter instead. Seemingly a whole book about gender and disappointing a parent. ​ US census comments In 2020, Taylor made comments on a video where she was angry that the US census only had male and female options, saying how upsetting “the erasure of trans and nonbinary people” was to her. Video can be found at the 11:28 timestamp. ​ The male perspective She writes and sings from the male perspective in a lot of songs, including betty, dorothea, Mine, Our song, Love Story, and Speak Now. ​ jaMEs She wrote herself as James in betty (which gaylors were already confident about) and then she went and confirmed it during the TTPD clue hunt in lyrics by capitalizing ME in “jaMEs” when there were other M’s in the preceding words that she could have used instead. jaMEs ​ Named after a man She was named after James Taylor and likes to talk about that. ​ She’s the Heartbreak Prince She’s the Heartbreak Prince. The lyric goes, “It’s you and me…Miss Americana and the Heartbreak Prince.” In English, the order of the pronouns in the first clause reference the respective order of their subjects. So the ‘you’ is Miss Americana and the 'me” is the Heartbreak Prince. ​ Mandolin She wrote an unreleased song around the age of 13 called “Mandolin,” about a guy who plays the mandolin. It was written almost entirely in third person using he/him pronouns. But in the outro of the song she reveals she’s the man when she says “I’m the guy who plays the mandolin.” ​ Congressman in Anti-Hero She’s a congressman, not a congresswoman. Did you hear my covert narcissism / I disguised as altruism, like some kind of congressMAN. The line actually would have been more balanced if she had used congresswoman because then it would have had the same number of syllables as both “narcissism” and “altruism” but she chose to use congressman instead. ​ Willow There could also be a whole post analyzing Willow lyrics through a theylor lens. The more that you say / The less I know / Wherever you stray I follow / I'm begging for you to take my hand / Wreck my plans / That's my man The more her male side presents himself – the stronger he grows inside her head – the more confused she is about her identity. But she follows him anyway because that’s the way her authentic self lies. She wants him to take her over, to embrace her queer self, and thus wreck all the plans she had for her career which require her to closet. That’s my man, she says. She says it exactly 13 times in the song. The original voice memo of willow is very close to the final version, however there’s an interesting change. The very last phrase in the song replaces “that’s my man” with “that’s my myth.” This is at 3:33 in the linked video. The definition of myth from wikipedia: “Myth is a genre of folklore or theology consisting primarily of narratives that play a fundamental role in a society, such as foundational tales or origin myths.” Her man is part of her origin story. Now this is an open-shut case / Guess I should've known from the look on your face / Every bait and switch was a work of art Now that her identity is clear to her, she realizes in retrospect that she should have seen it all along. She was an egg and now she’s cracked. Every time her man surfaced to lure her in, ultimately made her who she is. ​ Dear Reader So I wander through these nights / I prefer hiding in plain sight / My fourth drink in my hand / these desperate prayers of a cursed man One of the clearest instances of her referring to herself as a man. And the statement is all the more stark and meaningful by existing in the same line as her telling us she hides in plain sight. Probably the most honest line in her entire oeuvre and she calls herself a man in it. On the first night in Tokyo at the Eras tour, Dear Reader was one of the surprise songs. And in this performance she changed the lyric in this line to “these restless tears of a cursed man.” Both gaylor- and theylor-coded. Tears because she can’t be her true self. The restless man wandering in the closet. ​ Cowboy Like Me Calling herself a cowboy. I think this one is obvious. ​ Teardrops On My Guitar And there he goes, so perfectly, the kind of flawless I wish I could be Interesting that it’s the guy in the song that she wishes she could be like. ​ Tim McGraw “When you think Tim McGraw, I hope you think of me” is theylor-coded to begin with. When you think of a man, I hope you think about me. But her original lyrics had a slightly different version of this line that makes the theylor of it all go even harder: “When you think Tim McGraw, I hope you think me” (instead of “hope you think OF me”). This seems to take it to the next level: in the final version Tim McGraw reminds the muse of her, but in the original, she’s actually standing in for him. “Tim McGraw” was also interpolated into “cowboy like me”, thus connecting the songs. ​ The Story of Us “The Story of Us” was referenced in the TTPD installation as a notebook with a huge “US” lettered on it. It turns out it was an easter egg (lol obv) because the same notebook appeared in the Fortnight mv. The original song may or may not have intended theylor clues, but in retrospect the lyrics seem quite coded, especially in light of the appearance in the Fortnight mv, which I theorized above was about two versions of herself, the male and the female. And the story of us looks a lot like a tragedy now / And we're not speaking and I'm dying to know / Is it killing you like it's killing me? The story of “us” is her male side having to be hidden away and closeted; that’s her tragedy. They’re “not speaking” because she has to live separately from that part of herself. ​ Cardigan Tried to change the ending / Peter losing Wendy, I / I knew you I think she’s both Peter and Wendy in this line, representing the two sides. Peter is alone in the closet while Wendy, her femme side, is exposed to the world. Peter is left behind because she can’t be her complete self. This also fits perfectly with the song Peter. ​ Peter “Peter” seems to be a callback to the Cardigan reference. The whole song can be read through a theylor lens. Forgive me, Peter /My lost fearless leader / In closets like cedar / Preserved from when we were just kids … Said you were gonna grow up / Then you were gonna come find me Peter is her male side that she had to hide away in a closet, specifically a cedar closet. Ceder closets are used to preserve clothes, because the smell that cedar wood gives off repels the bugs that eat holes in clothing. She’s had to keep that side of herself in the cedar closet so he’s preserved for later when they’re at the point that they can be united. The “fearless leader” phrase is also a callback to The Man, “I’d be a fearless leader,” which deepens the theylor connection. There’ve also been some other analyses of Peter through a trans lens. ​ But Daddy I Love Him BDILH has major theylor undertones. The entire song can be interpreted as a metaphor for wanting to others to accept a gender identity that’s different from the one they think you should have. The bridge is particularly coded: God save the most judgmental creeps / Who say they want what's best for me / Sanctimoniously performing soliloquies I'll never see / Thinking it can change the beat / Of my heart when he touches me / And counteract the chemistry / And undo the destiny / You ain't gotta pray for me / Me and my wild boy This could refer to the desire to embrace her male side, her wild boy. That the idea of uniting with him and being her authentic self – her destiny – is what makes her heart beat. Them being together is, for her, the ultimate chemistry. ​ Down Bad Similar to BDILH, Down Bad also is very theylor. Some select lines: "What if I can't have him" / "I might just die, it would make no difference" / Down bad / waking up in blood / Staring at the sky, come back and pick me up / What if I can't have us She feels like she might die if she can’t be with her male side. They'll say I'm nuts if I talk about the existence of you This line is particularly loud to me. What romantic interest (gay or straight) is so ridiculous that people say she’s nuts for talking about that person’s very existence? It makes far more sense that she’d think people think her nuts if she talks about a male or masc person who lives within her. Her twin. Like I lost my twin / What if I can't have him Similar to the above line, it’s a little odd to refer to a romantic interest as your twin. Not impossible, given she’s likely dated three blonde women who all vaguely look like her, but combined with the other lines, I think this is theylor-coded. What if she can never be united with the male twin within her. There might also be a twin connection in “The Albatross”, because male and female albatrosses are essentially identical. Credit for this is u/1DMod here. I'll build you a fort on some planet / Where they can all understand it Obviously queer-coded in general, but I’d argue that being gender expansive today is less accepted than having a queer sexual orientation. There’s undoubtedly a significant number of homophobes who don’t like gay people, but there are massive quantities of people who flat out deny the existence altogether of trans and gender expansive people. So the idea of escaping to another planet where our identities are understood and accepted and normalized is very theylor-coded. She also alternates saying “Fuck it if I can’t have us” and “Fuck it if I can’t have him” throughout the whole song. And she says “if I can’t have him” 13 times throughout the song, similar to the way she says “That’s my man” 13 times in Willow. ​ Guilty as Sin Another song I could do a whole theylor analysis on. This cage was once just fine / Am I allowed to cry? / I dream of cracking locks / Throwing my life to the wolves / Or the ocean rocks / Crashing into him tonight / He's a paradox / I'm seeing visions, am I bad? / Or mad? Or wise? The cage is her male side being closeted and the pain that entails. She dreams of breaking the lock on the cage and letting him out so they can be united, which would mean, she fears, tossing out everything she’s worked for. It’s easy to see how having both a male and female side could be construed as a paradox. Wondering if she’s crazy, if she’s bad, or just wise are emotions that are common to people trying to figure out their gender identity. Without ever touching his skin / How can I be guilty as sin? He’s not a person who she can touch. He’s a person who lives within her. Struggling with religious guilt around this makes a lot of sense. ​ I Hate It Here Tell me something awful / Like you are a poet trapped inside the body of a finance guy This is both trans-coded and theylor-coded, the idea of being trapped in a body you don’t identify with, or feeling different on the inside than you present on the outside. ​ Orlando by Virginia Woolf In this novel, the main character, Orlando, transitions genders. This amazing post by u/AliceStanleyJr discusses some of the Taylor connections. In the novel, Orlando wrote a book called “The Oak Tree”; Taylor once compared her skin to oak tree bark, and she also performs Champagne Problems under an oak tree. Additionally, a comment by u/onemore_folkmore on that post pointed out that one of the Taymojis for “Tim McGraw'' is an acorn and underneath it says “Acorns don’t grow on acorn trees, they grow on oak trees.” Some of the taymoji's for Tim McGraw, including an acorn There are other Virginia Woolf connections, like this post by u/PomegranateNo3155 which links a short story to the carnations line in Maroon. ​ thanK you aIMee I’m not sure who the first person to discover this was because I think I saw it on one of the megathreads, but u/-periwinkle reminded me that when you googled “thank you aimee” when the song first came out, the top result was a memorial page for the trans activist Aimee Stephens. ​ A Place in This World A song about feeling alone, feeling different from others, and trying to figure out who she is. It’s sad the way she repeats “Oh, I’m just a girl,” over and over, like she’s forlorn to think of herself as just a girl. ​ Endgame Big reputation, big reputation / Ooh, you and me, we'd be a big conversation, ah If she came out as gender expansive, it’d be a HUGE conversation. I wanna be your endgame / I wanna be your first string / I wanna be your A-Team This could be read as the endgame to unite with her male side and finally be complete. ​ I Did Something Bad There was a great post from an anon who did a transmasc analysis of IDSB and interpreted “They're burning all the witches even if you aren't one” as Taylor saying she’s not a witch, and thus not a woman, since she often uses witches as a metaphor for femininity. There’s a lot of other analysis so the whole post is worth reading. ​ I Think He Knows I think he knows his hands around / A cold glass / Make me wanna know that body / Like it's mine This could be interpreted as she wants to pretend she has a male body. It has similarities to the Teardrops On My Guitar line above. ​ Cosmo quiz In the 2014 Cosmo quiz, she said, “If I were a boy for a day the first thing I’d do is be the best boyfriend EVER.” Definitely gaylor-coded but there are theylor overtones as well and is consistent with other evidence of her expressing jealousy towards men. ​ Acting Like a Boy This is the name of an unreleased song that Taylor apparently wrote for Fearless. ​ Other Theylor posts I wanted to close with links to some past theylor-related posts from this sub. If there are other good ones I missed, please let me know and I’ll add them. Taylor and Envy by u/Dammit-Hannah Taylor Swift as The "Man" by u/CakiestBitch420 Lightning strikes every time she moves: Taylor's public vs. private personas & electricity in the Fortnight music video by u/liminaldyke Forgive Me, Peter: Theylor in TTPD by u/afterandalasia submitted by /u/Wild_Butterscotch977 to r/GaylorSwift [link] [comments]

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Every year since 2015, I've been going to the movie theater as much as possible, keeping track of every movie I see (along with ticket stubs, scores, some thoughts, etc). I went 5 times in 2015, 9 times in 2016, 146 times in 2017, 165 times in 2018, 193 times in 2019, 45 times in 2020, 86 times in 2021, and 273 times in 2022. I rarely go watch a movie more than once, but it happens a few times a year. I try to go 3-5 times per week, depending on what's coming out. I have 25 or so theaters within 15 miles so I get a solid selection every week, everything from big blockbusters to obscure, one-theater-only international releases. I'm not big into horror so many notable ones will be missing from my ranking (Halloween Ends, Smile, Orphan: First Kill, Terrifier 2, Prey for the Devil, Jeepers Creepers Reborn, etc). With A-list, festival memberships/passes, reward points, matinee screenings, Discount Tuesdays, etc, I'd guess it probably averages out to only about $6-$8 or so per movie. I go alone most of the time. I set a goal in January 2020 to go see 200 different movies in theaters that year (after doing 192 in 2019), but had to abandon that in mid-March (after 44 movies) and didn't go again for the next 13 months because of COVID, then slowly started going back in late-March 2021. This year was a bit like making up for lost time in 2020/2021. After ever only having been to 1 ever before, I also went to 5 film festivals this year: Savannah Film Festival (15 movies in 3 days), Miami Film Festival (16 movies in 7 days), Outshine Film Festival (6 movies in 5 days), Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival (11 movies in 6 days), and the Gems Miami Film Festival (5 movies in 2 days). For most of the festival screenings, members of the cast/crew were present for the movie and Q&As. Some highlights were Ron Howard after Thirteen Lives, Eddie Redmayne after The Good Nurse, Kerry Condon after The Banshees of Inisherin, Dean-Fleischer Camp after Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, Jeremy Pope after The Inspection, Eric Appel after Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, Jared Harris after The Ghost of Richard Harris, and Michael Ward after Empire of Light. I try to stay away from reviews/trailers/etc as much as possible before watching something, to go in as blindly as possible. My ranking/thoughts/scores are for fun, I am not a professional (or good) reviewer and this isn't meant to be taken super seriously. It's basically just an enjoyment ranking, based on a score I give to a movie right after watching it. It's not really meant to put movies against each other, and I don't have any sort of checklist/requirements/guideline for scores. I just like going to the movies and keeping score for fun. The Worst Person in the World - 10/10 - I haven't been this blown away by a duo of lead performances since Marriage Story. I love the way it was structured like a book, with important chapters of her life. Anyone that is struggling (or has struggled) getting their life together in their 20s will be able to form a strong bond with this movie. It's full of heartwarming and relatable and beautiful moments but always casting a strong existential shadow. On a technical level, it's one of the best directed and edited movies of the year. The surreal (and dream/trip) scenes could feel out of place in most other movies, but they're woven in perfectly here. Absolutely perfect bittersweet ending and Waters of March was a great match to go with it. Catchy and stuck in my head for a while. The kind of movie that just makes you melt into your seat as the credits roll. My favorite movie of the year. Aftersun - 9/10 Petite Maman - 9/10 Babylon - 9/10 - Voodoo Mama is the best original song of the year. Margot Robbie puts in the best performance of the year (with an amazing scene-stealing performance from PJ Byrne in the few minutes he's in it). 'For the love of Cinema' is basically its own genre now (especially this year with Empire of Light, The Fablemans, Last Film Show, etc) but this is the cream of the crop. Starts off at 120 MPH, doesn't let off the gas for an hour, then it slows down a bit (maybe too much...), only for it to take another batshit crazy turn. An amazing final scene. Damien Chazelle does not miss. The scene where Margot Robbie, Olivia Hamilton, and PJ Byrne try to make a scene work with the new sound coordinator is the most I've laughed in a while. Top Gun: Maverick - 9/10 - The best action blockbuster in a while. I can't add anything that already hasn't been said a million times before. All Quiet On the Western Front - 9/10 - Up there with Paths of Glory, Come and See, The Bridge with being one of the best anti-war movies of all time. It has some of the best production design for a war movie I've ever seen, really impressive stuff for a non-Hollywood production. Very brutal, very grounded. Licorice Pizza - 9/10 CODA - 9/10 - The movie equivalent of a hot bowl of soup on a cold day. Soul-warming stuff. Reading the premise, you'd expect something really cheesy/tearjerky, but this gets around that and earns a bunch of real tears. Close - 9/10 - The bus scene was the single-most emotionally-impactful scene of the year. Heartbreaking tale of childhood innocence and the consequences of societal pressures. The Banshees of Inisherin - 9/10 Triangle of Sadness - 9/10 A Chiara - 9/10 - A really unique and great mob movie. It doesn't concentrate so much on the mobsters, but the effect a criminal-empire has on the family of the boss. You're put in the shoes of the daughther of a mobster, and seeing her navigate and come to acceptance with her dad's situation made for a really thrilling movie. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On - 9/10 - You haven't lived until you're sitting a full theater of people laugh-crying about a tiny shell. I saw this in July, couldn't stop thinking about it, and went to see it again in October with the director (Dean Fleischer Camp) in attendance. Arsenault and Sons - 9/10 - This was a reallllly good crime-thriller. It's about a French Canadian family that owns a regular small-town garage but are also involved in illegal off-season hunting and meat distribution. A close-knit spider web of crime that quickly unravels and crumbles. It reminded me a lot of Animal Kingdom. Great score that helps build tension throughout, amazing acting all round, with a great payoff at the end. The best French-Canadian movie since the Cannes double-premiere of You're Sleeping Nicole and Mommy in 2014. Weird: The Al Yankovic Story - 9/10 -Seeing this in a huge, sold out, 1200-seat theater with a completely raucus and wild late-night crowd full of Weird Al fans was honestly the most fun experience I’ve ever had at the movies. Something I'd pay a lot to experience again. Hilarious, perfectly-outrageous, but with a good amount of heart thrown in. Score is maybe inflated a bit based on how many drinks I had beforehand. Happy that Roku financed it in the first place, but still a bummer this won’t get a theatrical release. I feel like it was strongly elevated by that. Stars at Noon - 9/10 - My only complaint is that it wrapped up so quickly. I wanted another hour. Claire Denis' best movie since 35 Shots of Rum. If someone asked me to suggest a movie that's flown completely under the radar this year, it'd be this one. It's full of great performances, geopolitical spy/thriller intrigue, and mystery. The Whale - 9/10 - Brendan Fraser is rightfully getting a lot of praise for this performance, but the whole cast deserves it. Hong Chau and Sadie Sink put in two of the best supporting performances of the year. Aronofsky's recent stuff might get too bogged down by religious allegory but this worked on many more levels. Novembre - 9/10 - A mix of Sicario and Zero Dark Thirty. An air-tight, real-life, crime-thriller that doesn't waste a single second and keeps your heart pounding throughout (especially that one raid scene near the end, holy shit). Holy Spider - 9/10 The Ghost of Richard Harris - 9/10 - The best documentary of the year. A sweet and honest tribute by 3 sons for their legendary, complicated father. It doesn't shy away from the tough topics, and the interviews feel deeply-personal, more than most documentaries. It covers his faults and his greatness evenly, perfectly balanced. The Jim Sheridan segment is probably my all-time favorite documentary interview, totally honest and revalatory. Red Rocket - 8/10 - Pound-for-pound the funniest movie of the year and the best comedy since Don't Look Up. Avatar: The Way of Water - 8/10 EO - 8/10 - On one hand, it made me lose all hope in humanity. On the other hand, it fully restored it. A delicate balance, and a beautiful little puzzle of a movie, and maybe the best overall score of the year. The Good Boss - 8/10 The Batman - 8/10 The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent - 8/10 Ramona - 8/10 - Lourdes González is completely mesmerizing in this. One of my favorite performances of the year. A sweet, breezy, and quirky comedy-drama. The color/melodrama of Almodovar, the walk-and-talk romance of Linklater, and the aesthetic of Noah Baumbach, but a beautifully-personal and cute story that makes it stand on its own. Gagarine - 8/10 - A beautiful and sad story of childhood imagination and loss. It's an extremely unique take on the coming-of-age/first love/early friendship genre. Super sweet. Lyna Khoudri is going to be huge, I think. Came out of nowhere and blew me away. George Washington is one of my favorite movies ever, and this reminded me a lot of that. There was something really comforting and innocent about it. Olga - 8/10 - Jaw-dropping performance for a first-time actress. Maybe the best debut performance in a while. Intertwined real-life footage doesn't work most of the time, but it was perfect in this movie. Amazing sound design, lightning (in the gyms especially), and use of non-actors. Imaginative transitions. Some sports movies can make 'big competition climax' seem corny and fake, but this was the opposite, it was a perfectly shot climax, like an Olympics documentary or something. The current situation in Ukraine adds a whole new parallel/layer to this already-amazing movie. Thirteen Lives - 8/10 - Formulaic but very effective. A bit too long, but still a great rescue/survival movie. If this doesn’t win the Sound Design and/or Production Design Oscar, then I don’t know why those awards exist. Emily the Criminal - 8/10 Bodies Bodies Bodies - 8/10 En Corps - 8/10 - Beautifully choreographed and uplifting movie. Knives Out: Glass Onion - 8/10 X - 8/10 Everything Everywhere All At Once - 8/10 Tar - 8/10 - I really wish this cut the last 10 minutes. For me, the perfect end point would have been when she's watching the old Leonard Bernstein VHS tape at her childhood home, but Cate Blanchett carries this to greatness. Puss in Boots: The Last Wish - 8/10 - Animated movies aren't really my thing, but this was a really fun and cute movie. A Hero - 8/10 Crimes of the Future - 8/10 Drunken Birds - 8/10 Doctor Strange: Multiverse of Madness - 8/10 Spider-Man: No Way Home - 8/10 - A really fun time. Official Competition - 8/10 - A biting, meta, and sharp satirical-comedy set in the world of filmmaking. Maybe Penélope Cruz's best-ever performance. Italian Studies - 8/10 Happening - 8/10 The Northman - 8/10 Huda's Salon - 8/10 - This came out of nowhere. A lot more brutal and graphic than I thought it would be. Elvis - 8/10 - Tom Hanks was miscast (it should've been Bill Camp),but I get that you need a big name in this. The first few minutes suck, but a fun ride after that. Nightmare Alley - 8/10 Cha Cha Real Smooth - 8/10 - Sweet, lighthearted, unique, and refreshing rom-com. I need one of these once in a while. The Menu - 8/10 Alcarras - 8/10 - I love a movie that just blindly throws you head-first into a complicated, layered, and relatable family drama. There's a rich built-in history that you can slowly piece together. The grandpa was amazing. All of the children felt like their own pillars to the story. A stern-but-loving dad clumsily trying to keep it together against a changing tide. Really great stuff. Devotion - 8/10 Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul - 8/10 - One of these days, Sterling K. Brown is going to get the recognition he deserves with a big award nomination (like he should've gotten for Waves a few years ago). This was really solid religious satire. It's like a behind-the-scenes version of The Eyes of Tammy Faye. The Phantom of the Open - 8/10 - Liked this a lot more than I expected. "If life is tea, she's my sugar" is one of my favorite lines of the year. It does feel like Mark Rylance is always playing the same character though. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever - 8/10 Fire of Love - 8/10 Paris, 13th District - 8/10 Brighton 4th - 8/10 Montana Story - 8/10 - Both comforting and unsettling. A really low-key family drama that sticks with you. Haley Lu Richardson is easily one of my favorite actresses, she's great in this. The Fablemans - 8/10 Drive My Car - 8/10 Lost Illusions - 8/10 - A sprawling epic of early-1800s French publishing (as boring as that sound, it's really not, it's completely captivating and flies by) and a great story of ethics vs profits. I love that Xavier Dolan just randomly shows up in things. The Lost King - 8/10 - Surprisingly sweet story about finding the body of King Richard III. Some of the comedy with the ex-husband character doesn’t land and feels really dated, but overall a solid modern biopic. I liked that they made King Richard a ghost-like character that followed her around, it might have been too generic of a biopic if they didn’t do something like that. Corsage - 8/10 Blonde - 8/10 The Inspection - 8/10 She Said - 8/10 - The Five Devils - 8/10 - That karaoke scene though. You Can Live Forever - 8/10 - This reminded me a lot of 2018's Disobedience (starring Rachel McAdams and Rachel Weisz), it's a story of forbidden lesbian love story set in a small-knit, religion-controlled community, led by 2 great lead performances. Really good drama with an amazing soundtrack. Plus, I'm a sucker for any Quebec-based films so this gets extra points. One Fine Morning - 8/10 - It’s hard to explain but there's always a comforting warmth to Mia Hansen Love’s movies, and this was no exception. Heartbreaking and beautiful performance from Lea Seydoux. Side note: Ending movies with a freeze frame is really corny and it never works, its a trend that should have stayed in the 80s or whereever. Matilda: The Musical - 8/10 Sam Now - 8/10 - Very thoughtful documentary filmed over 25 years. 500+ hours of footage cut down to a journey of 86 minutes, about 2 half-brothers looking for the mother that abandoned them without explanation. Nope - 7/10 The Gray Man - 7/10 - Totally ridiculous, totally stupid, totally enjoyable. As far as Netflix's globe-trotting bloated action movies go (Red Notice, Six Underground), this is by far the best. I know that's not a high bar, but this had that '90s blank check action movie' vibe that just felt right. Hustle - 7/10 - A movie with this many non-actors will usually get distracting, but this pulled it off. A really solid sports-drama-comedy. The Woman King - 7/10 Parallel Mothers - 7/10 - Well-built and well-acted like every Almodovar movie, but like All About My Mother and a few others, the melodrama chokes out the story and doesn't leave much room for any growth to the story. Penelope Cruz killed it as usual. Dollar Store Javier Bardem was pretty good too (it really did feel like Bardem wasn't available for the shoot so they got his doppelganger to replace him last-minute.) Dog - 7/10 The Tender Bar - 7/10 - Ben Affleck just straight up stole the show. He was made for this supporting role and he'd get my vote at the Oscars. One of the sweeter (although a bit over-sentimental) movies of the year. You can just tell it was a book first. Mixed in with a great soundtrack, brought down a bit by Tye Sheridan. Bullet Train - 7/10 Barbarian - 7/10 Plaza Catedral - 7/10 Hit the Road - 7/10 The Forgiven - 7/10 - It felt like a fully-loaded play with a million interesting characters. Great dialogue. Thor: Love and Thunder - 7/10 See How They Run - 7/10 - If the universe was fair, we'd have a 10-film series of Sam Rockwell and Saiorse Ronan solving crimes together. It takes a usual whoddunit movie, then flips it, then flips it, then flips it again. Pearl - 7/10 Bones and All - 7/10 - I wanted to love this a lot more. Michae Stuhlbarg is wasted and I'm so tired of Mark Rylance playing the same exact character every movie. I get that he's widely-regarded as one of the greatest theater actors of his generation, but I find him very one-dimensional in film. This was a good movie, but I think it could've been a lot better. Hold Me Tight - 7/10 - An amazing performance from Vicky Krieps, but it gets a bit too jumbled/confusing for me to give it a higher score. It felt like a puzzle missing a few pieces. Maybe that's the point. I don't know. The 2 intertwining realities kind of blend it together. 2nd Chance - 7/10 Three Thousand Years of Longing - 7/10 - George Miller swings for the fences, sometimes it lands, sometimes it crashes. This lands, and then crashes. Coupez! - 7/10 - I went in thinking this was just a remake of the Japanese One Cut of the Dead, but was pleasantly surprised that it went another layer deep. If you want a horror-meta-comedy, this is it. God's Country - 7/10 Maigret - 7/10 - Decent, predictable, and mostly-forgettable crime procedural set in 1950s France, but does enough to keep you interested in the murder-mystery. You can figure it out pretty early on though. Wild Men - 7/10 DC League of Superpets - 7/10 The Box - 7/10 Compartment Number 6 - 7/10 Ambulance - 7/10 - I know I'm supposed to hate this, but I just can't. I could list a million reasons why it sucks: The constant tonal changes (from a little girl literally being impaled by a fence to a few wise-ass jokes a minute later), so much product placement I felt like I was watching the Super Bowl, the sun being blasted into my eyeballs every 5 seconds (we get it Michael Bay, the sun exists), a super-weird marriage counseling scene, the awkward camera angles, etc. All that being said, it was just a whole lot of fun. To Leslie - 7/10 - Crippling alcoholism is a common theme at the movies this year. Andrea Risenborough and Marc Maron are awesome in this, but it's mostly something you've already seen before. Moonage Daydream - 7/10 - Was worth watching in IMAX (not often this can be said for a doc), but not my favorite documentary of the year. Memory of a Free Festival has been stuck on my playlist since watching this movie. A Love Song - 7/10 Confess, Fletch - 7/10 - Jon Hamm awkwardly and confidently finds himself in the middle of an intercontinental murder-mystery. It's as fun as it sounds. Watch it. Vengeance - 7/10 Nostalgia - 7/10 Amalgama - 7/10 Wet Sand - 7/10 Argentina, 1985 - 6/10 - The tone was kind of weird, I went in expecting a fully-serious trial-drama (about post-dictatorship Argentina and the trial of the military leaders that ordered thousands of murders), but it ended up being played for a lot of laughs. Still a pretty good legal-drama though. Clerks III - 7/10 Navalny - 7/10 Sundown - 7/10 - Lowkey, vague, slow, sun-drenched chiller that sticks with you. Jockey - 7/10 - The Duke - 7/10 That Kind of Summer - 7/10 - Not many movies are this honest and open about sexual experiences. 18 1/2 - 7/10 - Take a weird ass turn near the end but I enjoyed the bizzaro-alternate-history angle. Watergate told from a fictional personal point of view. Watcher - 7/10 - Maika Monroe in a psychological-thriller, what more needs to be said? Last Film Show - 7/10 Everything Went Fine - 7/10 Scream - 7/10 Cyrano - 7/10 - Impressive set pieces & choreography and an amazing sound track ("Wherever I Fall" is a song I find myself going back to a lot, same with "Someone to Say"), but a like most of Joe Wright's work, it ends up a bit on the wrong side of bland. The great long-shot battle scene reminded of a lot of what he did during the famous beach beach in Atonement. Bonus points for the full-on commitment from Peter Dinklage, Kelvin Harrison Jr, and Haley Bennett, you really felt it on screen. Pre-2020 I could see this movie having been a huge crowd-pleasing hit, like The Greatest Showman. Kind of a bummer it flopped so hard. Violent Night - 7/10 Spoiler Alert - 7/10 Ali & Ava - 7/10 The Territory - 7/10 The Lost Daughter - 7/10 Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom - 7/10 The Daughter - 7/10 Soul of a Beast - 7/10 Vortex - 6/10 - Technically impressive, and Alex Lutz had a really amazing supporting performance, but there's only so much double-perspective aimless wandering I can take, and it turns out 2 hours and 29 minutes is past my limit. Dario Argento's terrible French was really distracting too, he was really struggling to get lines out, and not in the natural way you'd expect/want. If you're in the mood to have your heart and soul crushed by the horrors of old age and the degenerative brain diseases that await many of us, I'd highly suggest *The Father or Amour over this movie. Hardcore Gaspar Noe fans will like it though, he has a unique way of getting under your skin, and he definitely digs here. I liked the maze-like/claustrophobic/cramped feel of the apartment though, that really elevated the whole thing. The shower scene and the gas scene really hit, liked those a lot.* Pinocchio - 6/10 Beast - 6/10 Decision to Leave - 6/10 - Muddled, confusing, weird tonal changes, but it did look great. The most disappointing movie of the year for me, especially considering The Handmaiden is one of my all-time favorites. Neither a good romantic story nor a crime-drama. It's kind of just stuck in between. White Noise - 6/10 - 9/10 first half, 3/10 second half. The train derailment in the movie kind of happened at the same time as the derailment of the movie itself. Neat. Emergency - 6/10 The Bob's Burgers Movie - 6/10 Uncharted - 6/10 The Quiet Girl - 6/10 - I had really high expectations for this going in. It was one of the year's biggest indie hits in the UK & Ireland and it was a festival darling all across the globe. I thought it ended up being....just fine? It's a pretty generic story, an unwanted/overlooked child gets sent away to distant relatives in the country and they bond over shared trauma/sadness. It was well-shot and well-acted, but I was mostly left disappointed. Saint Omer - 6/10 Armageddon Time - 6/10 - Anne Hathaway and Anthony Hopkins made this worth watching. Everything else, not so much. The 355 - 6/10 - An okay, generic, time-wasting action-thriller, with every plot twist you'd expect and a few good one-liners and world-travelling set-pieces (think *Triple Frontier, or a Jason Statham/Liam Neeson vehicle with better cinematography). Brian and Charles - 6/10 - An extremely British Lars and the Real Girl. A Taste of Hunger - 6/10 Lightyear - 6/10 Jackass Forever - 6/10 Death on the Nile - 6/10 - The fun thing about a murder-mystery is that deaths carry a lot of weight. Killing off half of the characters really destroys that weight and removes any sort of investment I had in the movie. A fun script and good acting kept this afloat. Moonfall - 6/10 - Watching Armageddon, The Core, and The Day After Tomorrow 500x times each as a kid will always keep a soft-spot in my heart for movies like this. The Outfit - 6/10 The Greatest Beer Run Ever - 6/10 Empire of Light - 6/10 - It looked gorgeous and sounded amazing, but overall feels like a huge wasted opportunity. There's an amazing movie in there somewhere, as a tribute to cinema and theaters while following the cast of misfits keeping a theater alive on the south English coast, but it gets buried by a terribly-boring (and kinda creepy) main relationship, an overly-hammy performance by Olivia Colman, and way too many side-stories. The Drop - 6/10 - Painfully, absurdly, and wonderfully awkward but at the end of the day, it's a bit too stretched thin. Like an SNL sketch that goes on too long. Ride Above - 6/10 - It relies too much on being emotionally-manipulative (quadriplegic girl teams up with autistic farmhand to train horses at a failing family ranch, I mean, come on), but the racing scenes and acting keep this interesting enough. The Estate - 6/10 Dual - 6/10 - Riley Stearns's previous movie, The Art of Self Defense, was one of my favorite dark-comedies of recent years. I liked the premise, and I liked the alcoholism parralel, but I couldn't get past the terrible casting of the two leads (Karen Gillan/Aaron Paul). The Bad Guys - 6/10 Downton Abbey: A New Age - 6/10 - I've never seen a single episode of the show, but I've seen both movies. It didn't quite have the cozy feeling of the first one, but it was still charming and overly-extravagant enough to be enjoyable. Points lost for many cliché plotlines. The Good House - 6/10 On the Come Up - 6/10 - Very clunky in the middle and about 30 minutes too long, but the rap battle scenes make this a worthy watch, especially the last one. Eiffel - 6/10 Confessions of a Hitman - 6/10 - My dream movie or television project is a big-budgeted, sprawling retelling of the Quebec Biker War, but I guess this will do for now. Catherine Called Birdy - 6/10 Immersion - 6/10 Emancipation - 6/10 - If it wasn't for the worst color-grading I've ever seen in a major motion picture, the worst accent work of 2022, and a ridiculous hand-to-hand alligator vs Will Smith battle, this would've been pretty good. Three Minutes: A Lengthening - 6/10 - It's an interesting choice, making a full-length documentary movie from a 3-minute clip of a pre-WW2 town, but I think it was stretched too thin. Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore - 6/10 All of the Old Knives - 6/10 - Not great, but I liked the 'old-school-and-overcomplicated-spy-movies-they-dont-make-anymore' vibe this had going on. It really is a throwback to 1990s camp. My Name Is Sara - 6/10 Master - 6/10 Don't Worry, Darling - 6/10 Men - 6/10 - I absolutely loved Ex Machina. I absolutely hated Annihilation. This is somewhere in the middle. Alex Garland has been very 'style over substance' for me in his past 2 features. Jessie Buckley was great as always though. Where the Crawdads Sing - 6/10 Till - 6/10 - In a vacuum, Danielle Deadwyler's courtroom scene is probably the most well-acted and captivating single moment I've seen on the big screen this year, and it deservedly should get her an Oscar nomination, but the movie as a whole wasn't as great as it should have been. Call Jane - 6/10 Luck - 6/10 Corner Office - 6/10 - In some moments, it's a really funny/relatable satire of workplace dynamics and the total absurdity of office culture, but most of the time, it's just too dry and slow to work. Really close to greatness though. I do love the variety of Jon Hamm's projects recently though. Nocebo - 6/10 Nanny - 6/10 Christmas Bloody Christmas - 6/10 - The first 70 minutes were good and the 2 mains had great/fun chemistry, getting drunk and discussing movies/music while people get brutally murdered around them. Then the last 15 minutes really dragged, really stretching for runtime there. Loved the physical media references throughout (Vinegar Syndrome, Severin, etc.). Firebird - 6/10 Moon Man - 6/10 Amsterdam - 5/10 - Kind of a mess, but Christian Bale makes it watchable. John David Washington on the other hand puts in one of the worst performances of the year. Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths - 5/10 - Some of the best editing and set design of the year. The rest did not work. Sin La Habana - 5/10 Jurassic World Dominion - 5/10 - If Top Gun: Maverick is the perfect blockbuster, this is the blandest blockbuster. Too many characters you don't care about, too many stupid decisions, too many side-plots. It's passable but I'll never watch it again. Let this franchise rest for a while. American Dreamer - 5/10 - Peter Dinklage and slapstick comedy can only carry this so far. You Won't Be Alone - 5/10 - If Terrence Malick directed a folk-horror. Sounds amazing, but didn't do anything for me. Minions: Rise of Gru - 5/10 Benediction - 5/10 Fall - 5/10 Belle - 5/10 Mr Malcolm's List - 5/10 Spirited - 5/10 Passing - 5/10 - It was slow, but fine, until the ending blows the whole thing up. God that was bad. That should have stayed in the novel, it didn't translate to the screen at all. Strawberry Mansion - 5/10 Mrs Harris Goes to Paris - 5/10 Arlette - 5/10 - Basically a French Canadian Veep, but not nearly as biting or funny, except for a few moments. I can appreciate the fact that a movie mocking the government is partially funded by the government, especially in a movie about supporting culture and the arts, but the ending mostly deflates that goodwill. Memories of My Father - 5/10 - The most dragged-out, melodramatic death scene you've ever seen in your life. Plan A - 5/10 So Damn Easy Going - 5/10 Ticket to Paradise - 5/10 - Super-safe, super-sanitized, super-predictable, but I am happy that movies like this are still getting made and are bringing people to the theaters. I also wish more movies did blooper reels during the credits like this did, that's always fun. The Automat - 5/10 - If it hadn't turned into a glorified Starbucks ad in the middle, this might've been pretty good. Maixabel - 5/10 Estacion Catorce - 5/10 The Tale of King Crab - 5/10 The Lost City - 5/10 - Tracy Buttstuff. Sonic 2 - 5/10 The Contractor - 5/10 - 15 years ago, this would have been a huge, $150M-budgeted, franchise-starting, summer blockbuster starring Tom Cruise or Brad Pitt. Now, it's a lifeless and confusing action movie pretending to have political intrigue. I'm surprised it didn't also co-star John Travolta. Mothering Sunday - 5/10 - If you like naked people walking around aimlessly, this is the movie for you. Bros - 5/10 The Cow Who Sang A Song Into the Future - 5/10 - It bites off more than it can chew. It tries to tackle so many issues at once but can't Apples - 5/10 Breaking - 5/10 - John Boyega doing his best 'Denzel Washington in John Q' impression. Some scenes are so over-acted (especially with the bank manager), that they become accidentally-funny. Les Tricheurs - 5/10 Black Adam - 5/10 Loving Highsmith - 5/10 Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile - 5/10 - If only this could have lived up to the wonderful & lively opening dance/singing sequence between Javier Bardem and Lyle. It all goes downhill from there. Honestly, take out the stupid family (terrible casting all-around there, especially the kid) and cliché bad-neighbor, and increase the Bardem/Lyle scenes by 300%, and you've got something great. Utama - 5/10 - I get it. A family's way of life is dying and a stubborn, aging patriarch is bringing dragging them down with it. It's got great, sprawling landscape shots and feels very grounded, but I was just so bored. Father Stu - 5/10 Strange World - 5/10 Ahed's Knee - 5/10 - I feel like I don't know enough about middle-eastern geopolitical issues for this to work for me, much like the director's previous movie (Synonyms). Memory - 5/10 - As far as "im too old for this shit' Liam Neeson action movies this year go, this is miles ahead of Blacklight (see: bottom of this), but that's not a high bar. Unidentified Objects - 5/10 The Good Nurse - 4/10 - Drab, generic crime story that lacks any tension or suspense. Chastain was good, Redmayne was terrible. The Eternal Daughter - 4/10 - Watching a Joanna Hogg movie is like accidentally and awkwardly walking into someone else's therapy session, or it's like the feeling of waking up and instantly forgetting an insanely-vivid dream. It's uncomfortable. Frank and Penelope - 4/10 - Could be good if you're in the mood for a pulpy, cheap, late-night, Tarantino-ripoff crime movie, but it wasn't for me. Flee - 4/10 A Journal for Jordan - 4/10 You Resemble Me - 4/10 - Watch November instead. American Underdog - 4/10 - Could've been alright with more football and less sentimental-cheesy romance/religious stuff. Infinite Storm - 4/10 - I'm really burnt-out on survival-dramas. I had trouble staying awake during this one. Morbius - 4/10 Attachment - 4/10 Salvatore: The Shoemaker of Dreams - 4/10 - Once in a while, really talented people get together for a bunch of fast money and make an extended commercial that's not worthy of their talent. The Silent Twins - 4/10 Summering - 4/10 Jane - 4/10 My Donkey, My Lover, and I - 4/10 - Totally corny and painfully unfunny. Watch Wild instead, if you're in the mood for a 'middle aged woman goes hiking to discover herself' movie. Cool donkey though, points for that. Wine moms probably love this movie. Aline - 4/10 Wildhood - 4/10 - There is not a single original bone in this body. The acting was atrocious. Waiting for Bojangles - 4/10 Paws of Fury - 4/10 - The story behind the production of this movie is far more interesting than anything the movie itself offers. Delia's Gone - 4/10 - I thought Diane Keaton in Mack & Rita would run away with the honor, but Marissa Tomei in this movie easily puts in one of the worst performances I've ever seen on the big screen. It was like a bad parody of Matthew McConaughey in True Detective. Stephan James is picking really bad projects post-Beale Street. Jane by Charlotte - 4/10 - If a lame Mother's Day card was made into a movie. The anti-Ghost of Richard Harris. Awkward and clunky. Studio 666 - 4/10 I Am Here - 4/10 Detectives vs Sleuths - 4/10 - One of the most convoluted, nonsensical crime movies I've ever seen (I've seen The Snowman and nothing is ever topping that). A total mess from start to finish. Could not keep track of any character or motivation or "case number". The Invitation - 3/10 - I remember watching this in 2019 when it was named Ready or Not and didn't suck. I've never seen a vampire movie so afraid of an R rating. Laugh-out-loud stupid ending that should have been cut. My Policeman - 3/10 - Boring. Really came close to falling asleep a few times. Extremely sedated romantic-drama. I'd rather there was no "future" version of the characters, just the originals. Maybe that would've made it better. Leonor Will Never Die - 3/10 - Too meta. Too quirky. I felt like I was on the outside of an inside joke the whole time. Last Flight Home - 3/10 - There's something overly-sanitized, overly-edited, fake, control-heavy, and gross about this documentary. Just didn't feel right. At its core, its the story of a dysfunctional family milking their father's assisted suicide for their own needs. A sad, lonely man watching politics on TV in his final days, reminiscing about the good old days and reaching for death, while his family films it. Rifkin's Festival - 3/10 - Wallace Shawn was so awful in this. Woody Allen has some classics, but this is rock-bottom. Marry Me - 3/10 The King's Daughter - 3/10 - I don't think anybody else saw this in theaters. I remember Pierce Brosnan's hair, that's it. Both Sides of the Blade - 3/10 - I'm a huge fan of Claire Denis, but some of her more recent movies have left me more irritated than anything else. If you want to watch 2 hours of an annoying couple just bicker at each other for no reason, I guess you might enjoy this. I hated all 3 main characters. I didn't care about what happened at all. Worst love triangle ever. The Rose Maker - 3/10 Mack & Rita - 3/10 - "She's so old every second counts" was the only redeeming line or memorable moment. It felt like a movie that was supposed to come out 20 years ago. Freaky Friday, but creepy. Firestarter - 3/10 Easter Sunday - 3/10 - Awkward, unfunny, cheap-looking. Medieval - 2/10 - Some of the all-time funniest/awful line-dubbing by Michael Caine in this. Maybe the worst-edited movie I've ever seen. The story is impossible to follow. Hatching - 2/10 Three Headed Beast - 2/10 - What should have been an experimental 10-minute short is stretched out to an extremely thin and taxing 85 minutes. A boring relationship-drama about extremely unlikeable and annoying characters. Matrix Resurrections - 2/10 The Railway Children Return - 2/10 - From the poster you'd think this was just a cheesy, bland, forgettable British period drama. It turns out you'd be right. Enys Men - 2/10 - Every folk horror cliché messily jumbled together into a bundle of total nonsense along with purposefully out of synch audio and bad visuals. 90 minutes of pure cinematic torture. Please Baby Please - 2/10 - I wonder how they got Demi Moore to be in this. I feel like that's an interesting story. Simple Passion - 2/10 - The "French people having lots of sex" genre hits rock bottom here. It's like if a Lifetime movie accidentally got approved for an NC-17 rating. Like Me - 1/10 - A boring & annoying & explicit soap opera masquerading as a full-length feature film. Blacklight - 1/10 - Possibly the worst "action" film I've ever watched. This was "post-2000 Steven Seagal Action Movie" bad. Embarrassing for all involved. Other statistics: 17 triple-headers, 4 quadruple-headers, and 4 quintuple-headers. The most in a one-week span was 20 movies from Oct 21 to Oct 28. Movies I went to see more than once: The Worst Person in the World x2, Marcel the Shell With Shoes On x2, Elvis x2. Movie Theater Visits by Month: https://i.imgur.com/xIKqMNc.png Favorite Performances: https://i.imgur.com/Z0ih75e.png Past Rankings: 2018 (162 Movies) 2019 (192 Movies) 2020 (44 Movies) 2021 (86 Movies) In the next few weeks, I am planning to go see I Wanna Dance With Somebody, Living, No Bears, Women Talking, Alice Darling, M3gan, A Man Called Otto, Plane, The Son, House Party, and Broker. submitted by /u/BunyipPouch to r/movies [link] [comments]

100% Missables Guide (updated, spoiler-free) Hey there! Over the last two years I tried to 100% complete this masterpiece. Since I (unfortunately) am kind of a perfectionist I wanted to search and collect every missable thing I have heard of. I searched Reddit, Youtube and other sources for this task and I wanted to share the guide I created with you. I tried to make this guide as much spoiler-free as possible. If it hasn’t been working at some point I made sure to put a spoiler warning. ! In the „Random“ section I mention missables that can be collected apart from the story chapters. Make sure to check these out before continuing with the next chapter so you don’t miss out on them (in random encounters…) Tip: Don’t start the Aberdeen pig farm encounter until the end of Chapter 6 Tip: Always look out for random encounters, since these may contain missables as well (check the Random section) Tip: Don’t forget about the camp upgrades, upgrade your bag as early as possible CHAPTER 1 Items / Documents / Weapons / … Mining company letter to cornwall: Looted in the last train car in „Who the Hell is Leviticus Cornwall“ Oil company letter to cornwall: Looted in the last train car in „Who the Hell is Leviticus Cornwall“ CHAPTER 2 Missions / Activities Money Lending and Other Sins (I, II, III) Debt Owed by Mr Wrobel (Antique watch – see „Items“) Debt Owed by Chick Matthews Debt Owed by Lilly Millet Good, Honest, Snake Oil (until Chapter 6) We Loved Once and True (I, II, III) Pouring Forth Oil (I + II) Home Robbery with Javier Hunting with Charles Playing five finger fillet with Lenny One of the best videos for the companion activities is this one by GTA series videos (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clal3ov6jys) Event Area missions (3x, look for missable items below) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUZl1tseOF8) Tip: I tried to complete all the Bounty hunting missions, robberies (home, gunsmith, doctor, trapper…) in Chapter 2, even if they are not really missable to keep an overview Random Events Rescue Bill Williamson: Random Event outside the camp where you’re getting asked to help safe Bill from some Bounty hunters Fundraiser: (Possible Chapter II – IV) Items / Documents / Weapons / … Charity Handbill — On the table of Thomas Downes’ charity in Valentine, you get two chances: He shows up once before Americans At Rest, and once again after that mission. – His Table ist outside of the new built house beneath the saloon Dutch’s Speech Notes: Picked up in Horseshoe Overlook camp (Can be missed if you don’t pick it up before you move to the next camp.) Native American Ring: (This is random camp encounter usually in the Heartlands, a guy will invite you to his camp, get drunk, reveal his past and pass out, loot him and you get the ring John’s cattleman revolver: You can actually get these as Arthur in Chapter 2. There are 2 chances for getting 2 of them (https://reddead.fandom.com/wiki/John%27s_Cattleman_Revolver), „Paying a social call“, „The sheep and the goats“, „pouring forth oil“ Rare shotgun: (Hermit’s shack, northeast oft he map near Annesburg) Jimmy's Pen (Chapter II mission Polite Society, Valentine Style, only if you spare him) Jack's Drawing (Thimble request from Jack in chapter II) - u gotta wait a few in game days or hours for he drawing to show up on Arthur’s table. Antique Watch (Chapter II, Money Lending and Other Sins II, from the Polish guy named Wrobel, you have to open the drawer with the watch, take other things until debt is paid, then run away a bit to the point where Wrobel is despawned, then come back and get it) Old Brass Compass for the Ravens Claw Talisman (You have to go back into Sinclair’s cabin immediately after Geology for Beginners II and get it Micah's newspaper clippings and a wanted poster for Dutch in Micah's camp after „An American Pastoral Scene“ Bucket Hat: From a worker at the Lumberyard near -berry before it gets deserted, best done during chapter II Liberty Hat: Mission "An American Pastoral Scene" and stranger's mission "A Fine Night For it" during the second wave, may take a few retries before it spawns Newsboy Flat Cap: "The Sheep and the Goats", worn by Cornwall's men Scout jacket: Pearson Rabbit Request (Some people reported having problems to trigger it, here’s the solution for it: https://gtaforums.com/topic/923070-pearson-rabbit-request-is-unavalible/) Achievements Give to the Poor (Donate $250 to the gang tithing box) Errand boy Item requests Item requests (One of the best videos by GTA series videos (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gknushRk140) Abigail: 5$ (After you took Jack for fishing) Jack: Thimble (After you took Jack for fishing) Jack: Comic Book (Automatically during „a Fisher of men“) Javier: Oleander (Interact while at the games table with his knives)k Mary-Beth: Fountain Pen (When she is writing in her book behind arthurs tent) Pearson: Naval Compass (Just play poker with anyone and he will join you and give you the quest) Sean: Kentucky Bourbon (Interact with him while hes making fire bottles, he is sitting at his table behind the tent near the campfire from 12am – 6pm, when you see that the table has spawned, stay near it) Bill: Hair Pomenade (Interact while hes sitting on the chair next to his tent) Charles: Moonshine (Interact while hes working on arrows at the campfire) – did not trigger for me Charles: Oleander (Interact while hes working on arrows at the campfire) – did not trigger for me Dutch: Pipe (Interact while hes smoking a cigar outside of his camp), worked for me in chapter 4 Hosea: Book Lenny: Pocket Watch (Listen to him talking about his past at the campfire 8 – 3pm, he tells a story about his father) Pearson: Rabbit (Interact while hes behind the wagon table with the cauldron on top drinking a beer 8 – 2pm, I got it at 11.30am when he stands right behind the table near the cauldron) Susan: Seasoning Herbs CHAPTER 3 Missions / Activities Money Lending and Other Sins (IV Gwyn Hughes, Winton Holmes) The Course of True Love (I, II, III) Home Robbery with Sean Fishing with Kieran Fishing with Javier Coach robbery w Sean Coach robbery w Bill Home robbery w Sean Preorder edition bank robbery: Only if you have preordered the game online (could not find keys for that on ebay) Items / Documents / Weapons / … Lion's Paw Trinket: Stranger mission "He's British, of Course IV" Mine Share: Found in Trelawny’s caravan in Rhodes (explored during the mission ‘Magicians for Sport’) Rare Rolling Block Rifle: Chapter III mission" Magicians for Sport", the sniper shooting at from the barn has it Golden Shield: Braithwaite mission "Blood Fueds, Ancient and Modern" inside the manor on the fireplace Letter to Angelo Bronte: From Catherine Braithwaite that can be looted during „Blood Feuds, Ancient and Modern“ in the same room of the Gold Shield. Use Eagle Eye to help if needed Braithwaite Brooch: Catherine Braithwaite's corpse after chapter III mission "Blood Fueds, Ancient and Modern", the corpse will be there for 1 – 2 missions after „Blood Fueds…“, but you should collect it at the end oft he same mission Item requests Tilly: Necklace, play dominoes with her Hosea: American Ginseng Kieran: Burdock Root Molly: Pocket Mirror Sadie: Harmonica CHAPTER 4 Missions / Activities Money Lending and Other Sins (V) High and low finance (Ultimate edition bank robbery in rhodes, you can find the dlc code on ebay) w Charles Help a Brother Out Brothers and Sisters, One and All Fatherhood and Other Dreams (I, II) Coach Robbery with Micah Coach Robbery with Lenny Hunting with Pearson Rustling with Uncle Stage 3 of Arcadia For Amateurs will be missable if you don't do it before Epilogue I. Items / Documents / Weapons / … Antique compass: You can get this one BEFORE the mission „A fine night for debauchery“, best explained here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIqYzmGdqDc Electric Chair Blueprint: Professor Bell's corpse after "The Mercies of Knowledge - VIII", missed if you don't loot him, available from Chapter IV and onwards Letter to Bronte from the mayor: On the table in the mission at the mayors house, „The gilded cage“, take it at the beginning of the mission before you head out to the others List of accounts: Letter on Brontes table in the last bronte mission „Revenge is a dish best eaten“ Telegram to police chief lambert: Letter on Brontes table in the last bronte mission „Revenge is a dish best eaten“ CHAPTER 5 ! Warning: After the mission „That's Murfree Country“ bounty Hunting is locked until Epilogue I Missions / Activities Savagery unleashed: (Can be missed if you start with Dutch’s mission right after arriving at the island) 2 Random encounters: On Guarma there are 2 random encounters before Dutch’s mission (one where you see some guards chasing some prisonres and one where arthur falls into a pit trap) Items / Documents / Weapons / … Sun Hat: (most easily collected during "Savagely Unleashed", might take a few tries) – can be found in every other C5 mission as well, another good mission for this one is „A kind and benevolent despot“ Letter from Caroline: Found on the table in the mission „Dead uncle tacitus“. The mission can be completed without collecting the letter so make sure to do it Animals Scarlet Macaw: (Chapter V Guarma animal) Blue and Yellow Macaw: (Chapter V Guarma animal) Great Green Macaw: (Chapter V Guarma animal) Red-Footed Booby: (Chapter V Guarma animal) Red-Tailed Boa Snake: (Chapter V Guarma animal) Rainbow Boa Snake: (Chapter V Guarma animal) Sunglow Boa Snake: (Chapter V Guarma animal) Fer de lance snake: This one is not missable, it can be found on the main map in Stillwater Creek. In Guarma you can find it at the plantage just below the „AG“ on the map. Walk around there for a few minutes and it will spawn (if not save/reload) Green turtle: There is a turtle in the water near the beach. You can’t safe it in your compendium but you will get an entry in the diary Shark: There is a shark stranded at the beach at some point as well but you can’t interact with it (search on YT), take a photo, sharks are cool. CHAPTER 6 Tip (SPOILER): Don’t do the Veteran missions in Chapter 6 (because the horse you will get as a reward will be lost otherwise) Tip 2 (SPOILER): You may now do the first Aberdeen pig farm encounter before the mission „Our best selves“ but NOT the second one (second one in the epilogue with John – thank me later) But think about it for a moment: Is doing the encounter with Arthur even worth it at all? Missions / Activities Of Men and Angels (I, II) ((Only available if "Brothers and Sisters, One and All" is completed)) Money Lending and Other Sins VI, VII (J. John Weaters, Arthur Londonderry) Do Not Seek Absolution (I, II): (High Honor needed!!!) The Course of True Love (IV, V) Archeology for Beginners Honor, Amongst Thieves (Agree in Archeology for Beginners!!!) Mrs. Sadie Adler, Widow (I, II) The Widow of Willard's Rest I-III: (There are 3 stages which you have to complete with Arthur) Items / Documents / Weapons / … Owl Feather Trinket: You have to get Gold basically in that mission with Rain Falls where you need to infiltrate the army camp in „Archeology for Beginners“ Letter: Someone looted one of the soldiers on the train during "Our Best Selves" and he had a letter on him Military mountee hat: You can get this on in „Archeology for Beginners“ but you can find it in Fort wallace as well Saint denis lawman hat: You can get this on in „goodbye dear friend“. Look it up on YT, WARNING: this one is glitched as you can only keep it on your horse and it has no name in the inventory (so collect on your own risk) – you may get the flying raven claw talisman bug as well Saint denis police outfit: You can actually keep the outfit. I found a video by Arthur Morgan gaming himself (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IkBk2TZef4) Liability agreement: In the mission „The wisdom of the Elders V“ if you don’t pick it up from the table in butcher creek Letter to Tom from Colm: Looted from the body on the top of the ranch after Sadie Adler Widow II, go back up before the lawmen arrive EPILOGUE 1/2 Mission Evelyn Miller - The American Inferno, Burnt Out (I – V) Items John's Gambler Hat (To get John's gamblers hat you need to during the epilogue part 1 have it knocked of and be picked up again) Worn Flat Cap (It's a Flat Cap that John wears during the Epiloge - Part 1, you have to swap it for another hat and the pick it up again. You can actually purchase a "Worn Flat Cap" from any store but John's cap is a unique and missable color.) Drifter hat: Reward from uncle for his item request Item requests Charles: Eagle Feather Uncle: Home Remedy ingredients (Epilogue) RANDOM (Not chapter-associated) Items / Documents / Weapons / … The veteran missions: Missable ist he giant boar tusk and buell, the 4th mission disappears 1-2h after III Giant Boar Tusk (Missed if you don't take the trophy from the giant boar after "The Vetaran - IV") Horse Buell: (If you take it before Epilogue 1), Buell [unique coated Cremello Gold Dutch Warmblood] (Will be gone if you complete "The Veteran - IV" before the epilogue) Ancient Viking Comb (in the Viking tomb near the helmet on an alcove like shelf with 4 skulls on it - shoot the skulls Shrunken Head (In a jar in a shack (smallish one centrally located if I remember correctly)in Lackay, shoot the jar and the shrunken head pops out and can be picked up) The gunslingers‘ weapons: These are missable if you don’t collect them 1) Garnger’s Revolver 2) Flaco’s Revolver 3) Midnigh’s Pistol 4) Calloway’s Revolver Ornate Dagger (The Vampire of Saint Denis https://www.ign.com/wikis/red-dead-redemption-2/Vampire_Easter_Egg) Stone Hatchet – ONLY available if you have finished a certain treasure hunt in GTA-Online using the same Rockstar Social Account 5 comics: (They indeed do respawn) Rare Shotgun (Old Man cabin ambient quest near Annesburg) Classic Raccoon Mountain Hat (mountain man inside Valentine's saloon, appears mostly at night, has many but limited encounters) Fisherman's Hat (Legendary fish mission strand, either by blowing up the fisherman with a dynamite before starting his strand or at the final mission when he gets pulled into the water and leaves the hat) Scout Jacket [unique color] (Pearson's rabbit request reward, between chapters II&IV) Vaquero Rider Spurs (Dutch's pipe request reward, between chapters II&IV) Achivements Give to the Poor Errand Boy (Deliver 5 camp companion item requests.) Friends with Benefits (Complete a Companion Activity in each camp.) Lending a Hand: (Complete all sidemissions) Letters / Documents Newspaper scrap: Looted off the foreman at the Central Union Railroad Camp Strawberry Mayor’s letter: There's also a handful of letters that can be missed, like Strawberry mayor's Lemoyne Raiders Letter: Looted from a lone LR member near Rhodes. This is a random event. (Can be missed if you don’t loot him right then and there.) Letter from St. Luke’s Academy: Looted from one of two mauled up corpses at Appleseed Timber Co. This is an event where you have to kill some wolves that are attacking the lumberjacks. (Can be missed if you don’t loot them right then and there. Although you get a second chance if you fail to loot them: Kill and loot one of the lumberjacks before they pack up and move out of the area. It’s random who has it.) Les Tresor Des Morts Treasure Map Pre-Order Bonus (Only available to those who preordered the digital version before August 15th, 2018) Son’s Drawing: Looted from Rhodes gunsmith Bennett Brothers Newspaper Scrap: Looted from the miner right next to dream catcher #10 according to rdr2map.com Letter to Nigel from Tom: Looted from Nigel, Gavin’s friend Letter to Mom: Looted from the Valentine newspaper boy (You must kill the boy by directly running into him and pushing him under a nearby stairwell. As such in this video: https://youtu.be/uPMWtb1C15c)ztzt) Letter to Mom (2): Looted from one of the dead bodies in Amadillo (at some point there are two crosses on the map near the sheriff’s office, where the corpse pit is. There are two guys throwing the two corpses into the pit, one oft hem has a letter with him) Letter to Pa: Looted from one of the KKK members Meeting Notes: Looted from one of the KKK members Cursed Map: Looted from an NPC in a random event (sorry, forgot exactly which one) – according to reddit = high stakes treasure map Bride Photograph: Looted from Jim Peyton’s dead body, who apparently fell off a cliff on his way to pick up his new bride Mildred (Can be missed if you don’t loot him right then and there.) Note from the Sculptor: Looted from the dead sculpture near Moonstone Pond. You must shoot at his rope to get him down. (Can be missed if you don’t loot him right then and there.) Murfree Brood Pirsoner’s Note: Looted from a hanged man in the MB gang areas. You must shoot at his rope to get him down. This is a random event. (Can be missed if you don’t loot him right then and there.) 5x undelivered mails: There's some undelivered letters found in an abandoned mail cart along the road of Cumberland Forest. You can't deliver the letters yourself but they're interesting to read. Letter to Bubba from Jillian: Had a bit of a scuffle with an npc in the valentne hotel. The room across from the bath downstair (The letter is about jillian falling in love with bubbas brother. And begging him not to kill them) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc2SKSMA5AI Letter from scruffers & co. Publishers: Looted from the NPC sitting in the gazebo just southeast of Rhodes Letter to Nate from Momma: Found in Catfish Jacksons south of Braithwaite Manor Letter to Anette from Claude: Found in Southfield Flats in Lemoyne Letter to Brother Rodolfo: Looted from the Jesuit Missionary by the Sea of Coronado Letter from Cornwall Kerosene and Tar: - Looted from the corpse near the Oil Derrick (point of interest) English Spelling Practice: Found in Fort Riggs near Strawberry Note from Jim: Found on the front porch of Lenora View north of Strawberrys Letter to Jim from Mildred: Found 24 hrs later on the same porch in Lenora View Bride Photograph: Looted from Jim Peyton’s corpse that fell down a cliff near Lenora View Wedding Certificate: Found in a lockbox next to Jim’s corpse 5x Erotic Photographs: Found in a small cave in Cholla Springs, NA (Otis Miller) Nite Folk Wagerser’s note: Found on a hanged corpse (specifically the one near the entrance to Lakay) Nite folk victim note: Shoot hanged mans rope and loot Letter to Curtis from M: Sheriff malloy Letter to Mayor Timmons from Belinda: Strawberry mayor Letter from Miss Marjorie: Stranger mission after you complete and see show talk to ticket taker after show Lost letter to bonnie: Random encounter from body washed ashore Saint denis trolley riders digest: On a table outside of saint denis train station Civil war report: Basement of fort brennand in a chest Eugenics handbill: from random encounters in saint denis Chelonian handbill: from random encounters in saint denis There is a ransom newspaper scrap about a runaway slave in a house sorry dont remember location and in addition there is also a family photo of slaves family under a floor board Dear annabella poem and a days walk poem: Can be found in a shack somewhere up north of strawberry Mysterious sermon: Found in a random shack Chelonian Handbill: Given to Arthur from Anders in St. Denis near Angelo Bronte’s manor (will not be given to John). Note from Robert Elliot Patchen: Under a strait in the Nevada Hat in Granite Pass. Some helpful Links - https://gtaforums.com/topic/920154-all-missable-things/ - https://www.reddit.com/r/reddeadredemption/comments/9u7bku/spolierfree_mission_list_including_missable/ - https://gtaforums.com/topic/924480-spoilers-everything-missable-in-rdr2/ - https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/200179-red-dead-redemption-2/77155473 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oKylWdW2xU&t=44s - https://www.reddit.com/r/reddeadredemption/comments/acsudc/missable_lootable_documents/ - https://primewikis.com/guides/rdr2-all-companion-activities/ - https://reddead.fandom.com/wiki/Missable_Content_in_Redemption_2 submitted by /u/YungTeslaXXX to r/reddeadredemption2 [link] [comments]

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Before anything, I know that r/malefashionadvice exists. The problem is that people wouldn't really help in achieving what I want that well, so here I am. If I'm not allowed to post here, let me know. I always loved women purses like this and this. This year I've been trying to move away from the "black/white/brown shirt with jeans" and actually wear what I like. I began with streetwear, it gave me a big self-esteem boost because I felt comfortable for the first time with what I was wearing (even though I was probably being judged by teachers/older people). After that, I decided to take a step further and use the colors that I like with more feminine "cuts": pink/pastel (examples: this and this). I recently started introducing bags from the men's section to my outfits, however, they always felt too big, bland or made me look like a 16 yo. This is when I thought: why not just say "fuck it" and where the shit that I REALLY want? The problem that I have is that I'd have to change the way that I dress to make them look coherent with everything. 95% of my wardrobe is regular masculine streetwear stuff and sneakers. which I have no problem with, but don't go well with purses. To give an idea of what I'm looking for, my biggest inspos are k-pop artists(examples: this but with a different shoe, this, this, this -- I really like jumpers, I know -- this), but I feel like I'd have to add a twist to make bags actually work. I'd have to learn how to implement accessories (I've NEVER used watches/rings/anything related) and some makeup. Makeup will be a big challenge. I've never tried it and, since I'm western, I don't think it will look as good in me as in easter people. Again, my goal is to look stylish, not feminine (if that ends up happening I don't really care, but I really want to use makeup in a "badass" way somehow). I want to pass the vibe of "this guy is hella stylish" rather than "this guy hella flamboyant". There are some rappers that are using purses, but they don't really look good imo. Any ideas? I'm open to anything really. I plan to use very simple designs at first with not much gold/colors (example) just to practice. ​ TLDR: I'm a guy that really likes purses but can't imagine of a way of using them without looking too feminine instead of stylish. ​ EDIT: Holy sh*t, this blew up! Thank you so much for the support (and the silver!), I'm gonna read everything now

Yesterday I went to kohl’s to buy my son new clothes. There were racks, tables and walls full of the most beautiful Easter and spring themed clothes... for girls. Dresses, onesies, overalls, pant and shirt, short and shirt, and footies in every color of the rainbow. Cute prints with bunnies, kitties, carrots, squirrels and bees. I saw at least three different bunny pockets. Over on the boys section, the same selection I have seen for the last year. Black, blue and gray boy clothes. Plaid shirts with shorts. Work-themed and monsters. The only Easter clothes I found did have a bunny but it was.... blue. Let me make some things clear: I don’t wish I’d had a daughter, I love my little man to pieces. I don’t subscribe to gender stereotypes as a girl who grew up with two brothers (people used to shame me for wanting to play with them (???)) I don’t want to put a dress on my son but I am sick and tired of the dull clothes available to him. Why were there no orange, yellow, red clothes with some fuzzy animals? Why does it have to be about jobs or monsters exclusively? I posted the clothes on Snapchat showing the discrepancy and one of my male relatives replied: “bunnies are not for boys. Get you a lil girl” I disagree. Bunnies are for boys. Why are they already being forced to be “manly”? Would some Easter bunnies take away from his “manliness”? He is only six months old. Please let me know how you feel about this. Edit: I wish I could hear from men out there. If anyone wants to cross post in another subreddit, please feel free and link me. I’m in mobile and don’t know how :( submitted by /u/NoWomanNoFry to r/beyondthebump [link] [comments]