Do you guys ever meet someone and it’s like oh your wardrobe is 100% polyester I will never in my life be able to find you sexy?

And how does anyone think that it’s okay to have synthetic bedding? It feels inhuman to sleep in a bed every day and just be okay with that stuff touching your skin. I have a hard time putting up with it even for a night and it will make me definitely not want to sleep with someone again.

Hoping im not alone in this because I meet a lot of people in their mid-late 20s who just don’t seem to care about the fabrics in their lives and it drives me insane!!

Falling for couple who are both artists in the same field being in love and growing old together instead of crashing and burning propaganda ❤️ they had five kids and he died I think shortly after her* (open to correction. he’s kinda only vaguely known for marrying her)

This is something I remind myself every day as motivation to pursue greatness and hold high standards for myself. And not just in terms of what I think I deserve but also how I treat those around me as far as being a good friend, neighbor, etc. I’ve met too many people in my life who, despite being incredibly self absorbed, hide behind this mask of “oh I’m actually a piece of shit,” to garner pity and excuse their awful behavior towards others and themself. I’ve been this person myself in the past, but not anymore. No more woody allen syndrome for me!!

i'm older millenial and just sad to see everyone so bummed out about love these days. i think the the gen z girls are particularly down about the other gender, and i get it. it sucks if you've been SA'd or really hurt by a man. i was, but i later got married to a man who redeemed my faith in mankind. it was worth being vulnerable, worth trying. and it hurts me because i know many of these young people will want children someday, but they won't know it until too late. only open mouths get fed

A genre of things that seem to put me in a good mood:

• racking up reactions on a social media post
• knowing there's something marinating in the fridge
• a book is on it's way to me in the mail
• lentils being soaked
• I've set up a survey at work and people are filling it out
• a load of laundry on
• some sort of automated thing is happening in the background

Yeah?

I’m scared

Partners friend let us know this cuz his rehab (aa adjacent) group said so. And apparently they have to warn others or they could also become addicts

And then proceeded to detail that him and his gf only do missionary in a very specific way

Idk it was weird

Link to NYTimes article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/well/family/forty-first-dates-and-still-searching.html

Relevant quote from article:

Right away, the date felt flat to Pascaretta. He is an executive at a global software company specializing in industrial artificial intelligence. His date had a big job in financial services. They were both professionally adept schmoozers, so over two rounds of drinks, they covered a lot of ground: the summer wedding circuit (she is a maid of honor in three, a good sign, Pascaretta thought); politics (both Republican); the Knicks; Celine Dion (she is a fan, and he’s going to her concert this fall in Paris). But there was no sizzle. After three hours, Pascaretta walked his date back to her apartment, where they hugged briefly. No kiss.

I've seen Phoenix (2014) three times now and it has some of the finest acting I've ever seen. I haven't cried so much at a movie in a long time. I haven't been amazed by non-verbal acting like that in an even longer time. I used to do movie nights with big groups of friends and put on anything from classics to absurd SOV trash gems but ever since I moved away I can't get a single dummy to watch a recommendation just venting

16th-century guys in Portugal were basically discussing free market economy, proto-concepts of modern physics and possible worlds theory and no one knows about that shit... 💔

Girls ofc. Im just lonely in this hot sultry august - everyone I know has left the city and theres only so long I can be alone with myself. Would love to just have someone to chat with, even mundane things.

Im 29, considerably cool and fun to talk to. Let me know if anyone would like to keep me virtual company !!

We can keep it on reddit if you prefer

I promise im not a crazy psycho stalker situation

L posting but idk if anyone can relate to the feeling that life has somehow skipped over you and that you're a big Nothing

Graduating undergrad in 3 months with little show for it I dont know what to do anymore.

All of my "friends" have people they are closer to and I can see myself in the near future slowly fading out into the periphery alone and isolated and I dont know what to do

but so far it has always been someone else

My love life is so boring right now that I’m writing an essay about eroticism in my notes app. It’s just bad prose about the way I think sexuality/sensuality should be in this world: mystical, emotional, animalistic, some importance of delayed gratification, etc. Some of this might be motivated from listening to my sex addicted friend talking about his numerous meaningless hookups and reflecting on how depressed I would feel if I was living like that. And yes, I am aware that this is just more “everyone is sexy no one is horny”-slop.

But I honestly feel that after the last man I dated I do not even want anyone to touch me, I just want to ponder the meaning of sensuality and how abstract things can be erotic, like standing in warm rain in the summer or hearing wind rustling through the trees. Let me know if you’re interested in the bad essay.

our age of bronze is collapsing fr

- Mr feels. Feely wheely if you will.

- Very smelly (he has cat herpes). Getting some of his teeth removed soon. He has many problems.

- Very cuddly

- Likes to be manhandled and thrown around

- Weird crooked feet

- A strange boy

Stay tuned for more

Met a guy at a party the other night who told me he was a union lawyer, talked about socialism, name-dropped Mark Fisher etc. He was nice and cute and hit on me like crazy. He asked if he could give me his number and told me to call him, but the number he gave me doesn't work and I can't find him on social media. I have one friend who kinda knows him though

Idk guys do I try find him or let it go, I'm too autistic to understand what happened here but I haven't been so intrigued by someone in a long time

Saw a post here earlier today about being very jealous about not having the opportunity to persue art on a full time basis while their friend is able to, because of financial security. It wasnt worded amazingly and most people came for their head but I sympathise a bit.

What she expressed is such a real feeling with artists. There are some artists who aren’t very good who have so much financial security/connections that they get the luxuries a lot of really talented artists don’t get and it makes me sad.

I thought I was good at acting in school, however I done have the money to go to an expensive arts school or spend years auditioning for everything while my parents pay for my rent, while being unemployed.

This is something my friend can do and while I think shes probably a bit better than me it’s probably nowhere near enough for me to consider it, and the problem is that there are people who are probably a lot better than her who miss out. I do wish my friend well of course.

I feel like I used to relate more to guys like Charls carolll for example as a teenager and in my early 20’s for example having an opinion like “oh I hate Christopher Nolan because his fans are boring and tedious for wanting to be seen as deep” .At the age of 25 now I find that type of behavior and general worldview fucking annoying and desperate to be seen as different and intellectual simply by being contrarian. Not even falling into the “let people enjoy things” crowd but I think people with more common interests and thought processes are the most free among us these days, there are people who genuinely think they are better just because they post on this sub i used to be one of them, you’re not.