#i don't want to dislike her btw. right now she's just like. high school girl that hangs out with the abarangers

[stickers-on-a-laptop]

KISAMA JANAI! you tell him emiri!

too bad this show doesn't like you cause this could have been awesome

[knightofwounds]

Tournament

For @adelarsims event.

Okay, I didn't bring the guy first, like was planned, but I still took the leap of faith as recommended. So, after silent first year in the community I am ready to introduce the two young participants of the tournament.

Is she li'l or is he tall? Yes.

Although… Miss Gemma Charm needs no introduction. The youngest daughter of the Charm family, an ancient magical lineage, she is set to make her 16th birthday debut at this year's magical tournament.

Traits: Goofball, Art Lover (+Creative and Perfectionist with mod). Aspiration: Spellcraft & Sorcery (in this family she had no choice, to be honest). Skills: Charisma, Comedy, Logic, Mischief, Painting. Likes (in the game process): Pranks, painting, comedy, new age, argumentative sims, silly behavior. Dislikes: Fitness, egoistical sims.

Her mother Minerva Charm is a powerful and respected witch, her brother Darrell is a famous duelist, she herself has been reminded of who she is almost every day since childhood - all of this is definitely exerting some pressure on the young witch, especially now. Oh, the status obliges.

It's no wonder that behind her carefree facade, Gemma is secretly afraid of not living up to the high expectations of her family and the magical community.

And perhaps the big event would have been an equally grandiose nervous breakdown and she would have given up before it even began if it wasn’t for Glenn O'Malley.

Gemma's stubborn and unpredictable school friend simply stated: "It's dangerous to go alone, take this! And by “this”, I mean “me”. Eh, shut up, Gem, that's not a suggestion, but a declaration."

Traits: Mean, Erratic (+Hot-headed and Loyal with mod). Aspiration: Renaissance Sim. Skills: Dancing, Writing, Painting, Mischief, Fitness. Likes: Red color, funny sims, writing, dancing, gemology, potty humor. Dislikes: Complains, physical intimacy, discussing hobbies, ginger hair (yeah, actually his own hater #1).

You might be a tough street guy, who dare not be teased for an old-fashioned name or anything else, but if your friend wants an one paired outfit for an important event and gain access to your face with her questionable makeup skills… okay then. But just one!

But who the hell is he and what happened?

To be honest, he wasn't even a spellcaster until recently: just a rather unpleasant person who, nonetheless, cared deeply for his small circle of people important to him.

And Glenn got used to the fact that usually in their duo, he was the always annoyed (and annoying) creature with a short temper, but not Gemma. And this time it was hard for him to say "okay, keep your little secrets."

Of course, his friend always had some weird secrets, but she never was so tense and blue because of it. And it was going on for a while, so…

He was smart enough to put together a certain number of details into a whole picture and crazy enough not to try and rationalize the strange result, but just to test the theory.

And a month before the tournament, he met Gemma in the magical dimension with the words "don't you want to tell me something at least now, girl?"

Does Glenn have decent magical skills? Not yet.

Does he have decent physical form and the ability to improvise and adapt skills from one area of ​​knowledge to an unrelated one, compensating for his lack of experience or tools, without worrying about how strange or contradictory it looks? Hell yes.

A guy with the behavior of a delinquent and dirty mouth of a sailor but the cultural background of artsy kid and vocabulary of a poet, he once applied his many years of dancing experience to the football field (also for another favorite person btw), developing unexpected tactics to deal with his opponents.

What will he come up with for magic? Who knows.

Anyway, now it's not so scary to be ashamed together, right? Maybe two Neophytes with a couple of entry-level spells, a pack of cheap cigarettes, creative brains and pockets full of love for shenanigans won't win, but now it's going to be a fun adventure.

(At least for them: this duo of unruly teens can’t vouch for those who meet on their way, oops).

[webslingingslasher]

hi :') i see that people come here to vent n stuff so i want to do the same if that's okay. it's long, so you don't have to reply to this immediately, or at all!

okay, i have 2 best friends and we've been close since high school so it's been like Years (we're a trio and we're all in uni now). i'll label them as bff1 & bff2. bff1 invited bff2 and i to sleepover, and later on, bff1 invited our friend group from high school for a dinner/party at her house (bc we were all classmates but the 3 of us are rly a trio) and yeah, bff2 & i went, and 2 out of 7 from our friend group went, and so did bff1's cousins and their friends. we all had dinner and we were drinking as well. i didn't drink much bc i'm a lightweight lol but everyone else was drunk.

we were pretty much catching up until the whole night turned to them trash talking our other friends from our friend group (which were invited by bff1 btw but they weren't able to go...). i was just listening bc i rly didn't have any dirt on anyone, and even if i did, i don't care so much to need to tell people abt it 😭 everyone thought it was okay but idk it just threw me off... it's one thing to talk abt life and ur preferences n shit but to talk abt ur friends to ur other friends AND to ppl u just met??? fucking bitches fr..

the worst part is, AFTER all that shit talking, they video called our whole friend group gc and when one of them answered (aka one of the ppl they talked shit about, including her bf and their relationship tgt bc they, esp bff2, think their dynamic and even the way they dress is weird), bff2 was telling her "u should've come here!!!" ??? GIRL..... PLASTIC AS FUCK.... i just know that if i didn't go, they would have taken that opportunity to talk shit abt me too 😭 it's one thing to have an opinion and hate or dislike smth and to have preferences, but to be SO bothered to the point u talk shit, esp abt ur own friend AND EVEN HER BF (which is actually nice btw) to ur mutual friends and other ppl is another... like, ok we all judge, but why do u care so much to talk so much shit LMFAO... ik we were having dinner and we were drinking and having fun, but omg that's just fucking mean...

but that's not all of it, bc later on, bff1 & bff2 mentioned that they did talk shit abt me before, and they mentioned it at the dinner/party in front of everyone thinking it was okay like omfg.. i didn't even ask if they said anything abt me back then, they just straight up brought it up😭 it was about when i liked a guy a few months ago and we were talking abt him at the dinner/party, that's how they brought up that they were talking abt me to each other... yk talking stage w ur crush will get u twirling ur hair n swinging ur feet, and i'd tell the 2 of them "guys pls i'm delusional" as a joke when i update them abt it. we all say that about ourselves and to each other btw even when it comes to our celeb/fictional crushes when we're gushing over them... but anw they were telling each other "oh my god she's so delusional!" and they demonstrated it to everyone with rolling eyes... like... okay, i know? and even if we're open about it, why talk about me when i'm not there if ur just saying the same thing anyway?? just bc u can say it to my face doesn't mean it's okay to do it behind my back?? bc that's Entirely different. and what's the need for it anyway when u know you can tell me?? 😭 i mean, ik they didn't rly like him bc he was sus but still? and later on, back when i eventually found out that he's just not it, bff1 was like "so i was right..." like, okay?? is that something ur proud of? dude i mean sure, ur right, i'm not gonna deny that. but u gotta let me figure my own shit out on my own pace😭 like, i never even berate them or talk shit abt them to either one of them when they have their crushes or when it comes to their vices or flaws... i just let them do their own thing and if smth good or bad happens, i make sure that i'm there for them. but they were rly being bitches abt it... ik they just wanted the best for me, but that's just not it. i don't even know what else they said abt me bc they only mentioned the "omg she's so delusional" part of their conversation😭 but i'm sure they definitely said other things...

rmr in the all too well 10min version mv, that shot of when sadie was trying to just smile on her 21st bday in front of her cake and while everyone else at the table were having fun, but deep down she was sad.. i literally had that moment... i rly just sat there in silence while everyone else was having fun bitching abt our other friends.. i just smiled and went along w everything but deep down i was realizing how 2 of my bffs and the rest of my friends were people i can't trust anymore. they rly just don't know how to mind their own business and let people be... i alr knew that my friends have the hater personality (esp bff2 jesus christ) but this was like the meanest i've seen them bc they rly went all out with the way they talked shit, and it involved me this time.

i'm honestly more pissed than hurt. i couldn't bring up the issue during the moment bc i didn't want to cause a scene in bff1's house and in front of her cousins, and i was going to sleepover there with bff2 after the dinner/party, plus her parents live there too and they allowed us to sleepover, so no... i'm going to confront them for sure one day but tbh idk how exactly lol.. i don't want to end up fighting bc we were rly good together but ugh... i don't even trust them enough anymore to feel like we'll be fine if we talk about this... ngl i feel like they'll be defensive😭 but whatever i guess. if they do get defensive and just not admit and apologize for how wrong that was, i guess it's the end, bc i cannot tolerate a friendship like that. i literally just want to be happy...

and idc if they were drunk during that dinner/party... bruh i know what it's like to be drunk, ur still conscious😭😭 this wasn't the first time they talked shit abt ppl, like they Have done that sober when we hung out from high school until before this dinner/party.. but this rly was the meanest i've seen them fr and my 2 bffs confirmed that they were talking shit abt me so i'm rly pissed lol...

(if u made it here, thank u for taking ur time to read/listen 😭🫶 and sorry for any typos haha)

for the other friends on here:

TLDR: anon was invited to a sleepover with her best friends, anon's other friends in the group didn't show so her best friends (and the friend that invited everyone over invited her cousins/their friends) start talking shit about the other friend groups and admit to anon they talk ahit about her behind her back.

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it sounds like you just found out who they really are. and the fact they admit it and are proud of it is yucky. it's common for them at this point.

it's okay to gossip a little and talk shit, we all do it. but there's a difference between:

'omg, i'm lowkey glad katy couldn't come. she always cries when she gets drunk and i couldn't handle it tonight!'

'omg but for real! last time she sobbed for ten minutes in the bathroom over a song!'

and:

'god, she's so delusional. he's a piece of shit guy and she actually thinks she has a chance.'

it's up to you on what you do next, but i'd never be able to relax or open up fully knowing i'd be a laughingstock when i'm not around. like- if you're gonna talk shit, do it to my face. at least then i'll respect you.

[oddlykilledghosts]

A Review I Wrote About "You" by Caroline Kepnes from high school

Warnings: very-unfiltered, basically a stream of thoughts, remember this is me from high school so, cursing, un-edited

Before I even start I want to address the fact that only once this book was turned into a show people suddenly starting romanticizing the narrator, Joe, who is not only a pin point in the toxic masculinity map but even states himself in the book (trying to defend himself) that if anyone else peeped in on his actions they would call him a "nut". He loves Beck in his demented way, maybe. That does not make him in any way desirable for his "nice" gestures because his crazy cancels it out. Nor does it mean Beck was in any way in a healthy relationship with him. If you think I'm wrong please leave.

Unlike the show, the book does not jump straight away into Joe's "evil" antics. Spoiler Alert: It takes a very very long time in the book for Joe to finally get rid of and kill Benji. In the show it's one of the first two episodes sooooo...I can kind of understand more of your brain thinking "hmm maybe he's still a good guy" if you're reading the book (and even then it's a stretch). If you're watching the show and think that I'm sorry but you don't kill people, not even for "love" or whatever bullshit Joe was feeling. This is a point for the book that I really admired. It normalized Joe more than the show. Like he wasn't meant to kill straight away. Like he didn't go so quickly to the darkness. Almost like it excuses his behavior. The author, Kepnes, did a really good job of this without turning Joe into an unreliable narrator. You want to redeem Joe and every time you come close to thinking you might forgive him you can't and you aren't supposed to. However, if you do redeem Joe that's against the point of what Kepnes was trying (and succeeding) to make. Yes, he's  a character and you think he's interesting and that's okay (it's still only a book/show guys) but as a real person he's disgusting and honestly vile (sorry Snape). Still Kepnes did an amazing job of clearly expressing Joe's creepy and weirdly "right" thoughts in his own way without making it seem like Joe didn't even believe himself, which is hard to do.

Another thing I noticed online was how many people dislike Beck (not you Elizabeth Lail you're gorgeous and amazing). At first I too hated her and now I'm confused as to why. Did Kepnes write her this way and if she did why (and if she did I seriously love you Caroline Kepnes you're a genius)? Maybe we're all jealous of Beck. This girl who seduces guys like it's nothing (and her and her friends talk about every sex-scandel EVER). A girl who everyone is obsessed with. A girl with a cool social media and good following. A girl that has a life that isn't perfect, but don't most of us still want it more than our own? We all want to be watched. We want attention. Everyone is shaming Beck for the same thing. We slut-shame Beck for sleeping with guys. For master-bating in her own home. But how do we know this? No one is shaming Joe for stalking her. For looking into those private and intimate moments that weren't meant to be for his eyes. He violated her life and we shame the victim. Is this how our society is conditioned? We hate her for her friends but I don't really hear anyone shaming Peach for the arsenal of Beck porn on her computer (the only thing I really condone Joe looking into cause that is fucked up). And Annika (Chana) and Lynn are quite harmless...not the best but still better than nothing. The only thing that would be okay to shame Beck about would be lying about her dad's "death". Still, he messed shit up for her and let me know when you haven't needed to put things in the past. Having him in her life would just make things worse so I get it girl. Still, fucked up. You (metaphorically) killed your dad, Beck.

Also btw I'm pretty sure Paco doesn't exist in the book unless I read a totally different book.

I kind of already addressed this but there is so much more to go into about everything people like about Joe is FAKE! "Yeah but they were cute and they like the same things." Uh huh, they have a couple things in common but guess what? Joe stole her fucking phone. He read every text. Every email. Every post. Every Tweet. Who she called. Where she was. He knew was she said two hours before a date. He knew what mood she was in twenty-four seven. He knew what terms she was on with her friends (Peach!). He manipulated his way into a relationship with her based on this information. None of those "oh but I ship them moments" is justifiable once you realize this. Joe would'e never gotten into her heart (or her pants) if he didn't know any of this. In both the show and book right when Joe is about to blow his chance he remembers something of her or her friends THAT HE SHOULDN'T KNOW and it saves him. If he wasn't a vicious and ugly person he would've never gotten to date Beck. Which is both sad and ironic. I'm sorry but your romantic ideal of this character only exists because he's psychotic...he'd be his creepy little gremlin self if he didn't slink around like a pissing homeless person "engine engine number nine on the new york transit line" (haha references).

Just because people don't understand I'll add it one more time YOU DON'T KILL PEOPLE NOT FOR LOVE NOT FOR ANYTHING SO FUCK OFF

Now to get to the writing...ITS REALLY GOOD. I have a very low attention span and even if I like a book I'll be checking to see what page I'm on. Not with this book. I want to keep turning the page until I'm two-hundred pages in and it's almost two am but I keep going. That's how good it is. The dialogue is real and it flows. The character feelings feel realer than actual life. Beck's forever turmoil in life cuts you (maybe that's why we don't like her). And I've said this before but Joe's "feelings" really want you to make him seem reliable, remarkable, and redeemable (unremarkable people don't go around wondering if they're remarkable).

Now the thing that gets progressively worse is Joe's inability to know that he's in the wrong but still feel like he's doing the right thing. This happens when he follows Beck to the Dickens festival and he thinks she's spotted him. He knows he messed up. He did the awful thing and the only time he realizes it's "wrong" (I put quotations because he still sees himself as the better person) Is when he thinks he's caught. The same thing happened when he thought he killed Peach in the park. When he realized he did not kill her but only harm her, he feels a moment of panic before realizing she didn't know it was him. He feels justified after he gets away with it. A classic narcissistic move.

Narcissists love playing-

And that is where I stop because I read this book like two months ago and now I forget everything. Thanks for reading. (aka past me from years ago)