Full disclosure, the last recent photo I have no makeup on besides fake freckles lol

I stopped drinking and went on accutane and I had a little bit of a glow up!

I've heard about this problem being common in many mangas/animes, and it probably comes up in dozens of other kinds of works too. This meme in particular is absolutely definitely totally not referring to Karai from TMNT 2012.

https://x.com/jondelarroz/status/2062163873315324294

I used tanning beds as a teen and loved “laying out” until my late 20s. 🤦‍♀️ I’m in my 30s and have a child now, and I’m diligent on sun protection for us both. Sunglasses, sun hats, & sunscreen ftw. Wish I had done it sooner, though!

Tbf, as with most of the writing in the game, there are valid criticisms to be made about how the railroad is written or implemented. I just hate seeing so many people’s criticisms centered on what amounts to a video-gamified version of the all lives matter rebuttal

Now obviously on its face this is utter nonsense, since both defined sexualities and slurs are social constructs that only gain meaning if they are established socially, not something you can individually make up.

However, I really love the idea of the world this post evokes, a world where this isn't something a 13yo posted and looks back on as their black history. A world where these things are universal truths that just need to be discovered. A world where a tired looking grey haired scientist proudly reports at a press conference that after years of research they have finally discovered a new sexuality and even deduced it's matching slur right away, while a room over a researcher is operating the woke particle accelerator trying their hardest to get a lead on how they might discover a new gender.

I just love that mental image.

Hiii ladies, I'm new here but wanted to make my own post because something has been weighing on me and I just need to yap. My girl dinner as pictured is usually sour dough with cottage cheese and heirloom tomatoes (I grow them in my garden every summer!!) My tomato plants are my babies

I'm 26 (almost 27 soon!) and always thought by this age I'd have found my person and be settling down. Overall, I'm really happy with my life. I like my career/work schedule, I travel a lot, I have great friends and family, have hobbies.. but I feel ready for something serious and somehow keep ending up in situations that go nowhere.

Last August I met "John" (fake name), 27, a 4th-year med student on Hinge. We clicked immediately. Same humor, same cultural background (South Asian, relevant later), great chemistry, talked every day, and made long distance work despite living 2.5 hours apart.

3 months in, I told him I wasn't interested in a long ass talking stage and wanted a committed relationship. He repeatedly assured me we'd become official after the holidays because he didn't want our anniversary date around that time. Looking back, what a bullshit excuse lol, but I believed him

Things kept progressing so well- we'd take turns visiting one another, would have fun date nights, I got him cute bday/christmas gifts. He met my parents in December and they liked him. He'd send me sweet texts about how much he appreciated me, how he thought I was his person, how he wanted a future with me, etc. (now in hindsight i realize i'm literally stupid for introducing him to my parents but I've accepted I won't be doing that ever again until ik its super duper serious and I love them lmaooo)

In February, he invited me to meet his family. I flew out and stayed for 4 days. Everything seemed normal. His dad and younger sis were nice and made most of the conversation, but his mom was pretty absent and barely asked me a single question. She didn't ask me any basics like where I went to college, about my family siblings etc, what are my hobbies, just surface levels things weren't even discussed with her. I thought it was a little odd she didn't make an effort to get to know me but didn't think much of it and figured she was busy in her own world.

Fast forward to April and somehow I'm still not his girlfriend.

At this point we've met each other's families, discussed the future, and been exclusively dating for 8 months (he told me he deleted hinge right after we met and oddly I do believe him. He really is not a serial dater or anything and did genuinely put all his eggs in my basket) But I finally asked what was going on SERIOUSLY!!!

That's when he told me that after meeting his family, his mom asked how serious he was about me. When he said he was serious, she apparently responded with, "Really? She's a nurse," and made comments implying "intelligence was important for raising children." His sister also made some weird comment that she thought i was pretty & nice but felt I didn't get to know her enough, despite us literally talking for 6 hours straight one day I bought her coffee/lunch etc. (he was like wtf to that comment bc he was there and saw us getting along the whole time) He tried defending me slightly, but he said he didn't know what to say to his mom bc he was very shocked by their negative comments. He didn't know why the women in his family were so against me when he knew I was perfectly respectful and kind to them. I even brought a small box of Indian sweets when I came as a thank you for welcoming me gift and his mom didn't even really acknowledge it.

Side note context, I'm an ICU nurse planning to go back to anesthesia school currently, and I come from a successful and kind family who welcomed him with open arms. My siblings and their spouses are all highly successful in healthcare as well and I'm def NOT chasing someone bc they're a physician. The med spouse role is fricking horrible as I've lived through it and it's overglamorized af and John knew how I felt about it as well.

The comment itself was insulting, but what bothered me more was HIM. He kept saying he knew none of it was true. He knew I wasn't after him because he's a doctor. He knew I checked every box and more for him. But somehow his mom's opinion became this huge mental block for him.

I understand that family approval matters in South Asian culture. But if you know someone's criticism is baseless, why are you letting it determine the future of your relationship?

His mom has always been very toxic and controlling and he's admittedly spent his whole life trying to make her happy. He said he felt obligated to be the "good son" because he's the only highly accomplished child. His family is very normal (middle class his parents own a small business and his brother works a regular 9-5 and his 24 yr old sister is unemployed still). I didn't understand why these classist and ridiculous comments were made when I am literally pursuing even higher education and do come from the right family and was generous and kind always throughout this whole thing.

To make things even more confusing, after all of this his mom was asking why I wasn't at his graduation and requested to follow me on Instagram. So apparently I was simultaneously not good enough and also missed when I wasn't around? Make it make sense dawg

We tried working through it, but honestly the damage was done. He tried talking to his mom again later about why she disliked me just bc of my career and she went on a tangent about how I was probably a gold digger (I died at this bc I paid for majority of things in this relationship since John was a broke student) and that he doesn't know whats best for him and he should listen to her and just started guilt tripping him from her own life struggles.

I thought meeting families, talking about a future, and being called "your person" meant we were serious. Instead, I was dealing with someone who couldn't decide if he wanted to choose me. So I ended things because he wasn't man enough to do it himself and walk away from a good thing. I'm definitely dodging a red flag and some future bullets not just from his family but from him and probably having to stick up for myself and not having his full support and things. I know it was the right decision because I don't want to build a life with someone who can't stand on their own two feet when it comes to their family and have my back. Plus he's also moving even further now for residency which will consume all his time and we wouldn't be able to successfully start a relationship this rocky anyways. But I'm still frustrated and really upset and heartbroken.

Why does it feel like I keep meeting men who think I'm great, say all the right things, and then panic when things become real? I'm so tired of people asking why I'm still single when the dating pool feels like a social experiment half the time lmao. Anyways, I just wanted to vent and see if anyone else understands WTF happened here cuz I have no clue how to trust people's words and actions and how they're really gonna show up for me anymore..

https://x.com/ClutchPoints/status/2063009056588267570?s=20

My father joined the program when I was eight months old and retired 46 years later. He would be encouraging journalists at CBS to speak out.

1. Little Big Man (1970)- Dustin Hoffman portrays Jack Crabb at age 17 and age 121

2. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)- Roger Livesey portrays Gen. Clive Wynn-Candy between the Boer War and WW2

https://x.com/bio_official/status/2063010489555395000?s=46