!historychads new @Aevann lore just dropped

So she was a like a proper 8.5/10. I mean absolutely gorgeous except she was insecure about her condition which made her go overboard in her clothing and makeup choices, which is why I reduced 1.5 points. I was head over heels for her the moment I laid my eyes (😂) on her. Pretty soon we were talking, we were helping each other out with our studies and literally everyone knew within a month that we liked each other. Both of us were present for each other everywhere. Charades? We are on the same team. Group project? We're on same group.

If some random baseball match was going on, I would ask her who she would support based on the logos and then we would support them. It was so good.

Oh and she was fricking amazing in bed too.

Unfortunately nothing good lasts, and within 6 months we broke up.

See, all of the guys I have been friends with were pretty cool with her but one guy (let's call him Y) was too edgy. Whenever my ex (let's call her X) wasn't around, he would tell me to shake his hand or grab his wrist, and as I went for it he would look at the dude next to me and shout, guess who I am. I am X!! It's pretty funny in retrospect 😂 but I didn't find it funny then, although to be fair I didn't explode in anger and go full m'lady's honor on him too.

Anyway, matters started deteriorating soon, as I understood X wanted me to commit to her forever. She had created alternate timelines in her head and would spend hours daydreaming and telling me what school our kids would go to, which house we should buy etc etc. That she had told her parents about me and how awesome I am, why haven't I told my parents about how awesome she is. It's pretty cute to listen to that for 5 minutes, not for hours. And it's unbearable to listen to that chick shit constantly for days. And her style and fashion choices too started to grate on me. It was gaudy and garish as frick.

One example would be where we were going to hike a small hill during fall and the temperature would be expected to have dropped at the most to 40-50 degrees. There were 6 guys and 5 girls. We all had either a sweatsuit, or a light jacket or just a plain sweater on top of our shirts.

She had an exotic fur overcoat with a Dolce and Gabbana big butt belt and boots that looked like it was made for a SS officer rather than for hiking. Not only me, but literally everyone in our group was embarassed of her as we passed other hiking groups. Who's gonna tell her she looks like a jackass? Y even came up to me at one point and asked me "bro are you sure she can look at the mirror correctly?" Even I laughed.

Anyway since we spent so much time together, it didn't take her long before she realized I was pulling away from her. She tried to confront me about it once or twice but I just brushed her off saying we do a lot of things together and she's overthinking. But it was true. It was tiring to be with her. She simultaneously wanted to do the most classic girly stuff and yet wanted me to see her as "not like other girls".

Anyway, I won't go into the details, but finally I came out of the closet of dead relationships and told her yes I miss being single. She immediately threw a violent fit, breaking almost everything. I grabbed my laptop and phone and watched her in amusement breaking and wrecking everything. She broke her own laptop and phone and printer. She burnt all my class notes (😂😂😂) and threw the photo I had of my brother at my head. It missed by a large margin.

That was the last straw. I burst out laughing and told her (still grabbing my laptop and phone) "is there a reason why your aim is so poor". She just stared at me for a second and then sat down on the floor wailing, crying herself to bits. In between her sobs she yelled nonsense made up slurs at me (I still don't know what a kangaroo legged son of a b-word means 😂😂😂).

I realized this is my chance, grabbed whatever remained salvageable, went down to the landlord (he was already on the stairway), told him I would cover the next 3 months rent (the lease was ending after 3 months) even though I'm not going to be staying there anymore and moved in with the boys in another apartment.

Although while she was crying, I stayed on the hallway with all my stuff keeping an eye on her so that she doesn't try to commit suicide or do something stupid and called all of her friends. 2 of whom came within half an hour at which point I bailed. If she found a scissor or something and aimed it at the wall, it might actually blind or go in my neck who tf knows.

For the remaining 1 year and 2 or 3 months she didn't say a single word to me. She didn't tell anyone what I had said to her that day that made her cry but it was a great hit among the guys when I told it, quite frequently, at house parties.

That still is the funniest way I have ever broken up with somebody.

!r-slurs and !male feminists what's the funniest way you have dumped or been dumped by someone?

@Aevann please sir effortpost. My thumbs are sore.

Thank you @pushkardhami for turning Pavitra Ganga into Goa Beach. Such things are now happening in #Rishikesh & soon it will become Mini Bangkok. https://t.co/5nbB86FfZK pic.twitter.com/VnOtRkWPXM

— Himalayan Hindu (@himalayanhindu) April 26, 2024

Why not both?

Mayos

No mlecchas in punya dham

They bring drugs, they do raves. And some I assume are good people.

>Every time I see my old friends posting photos with their tongues out and a drink in their hand I get mad. My best friend travels a lot for work and goes out to bars all over the country in her downtime. I cannot help but feel extremely >pissed off about it. I know it's an ugly way to feel but she's just getting Covid infections and still healthy as one could be. I almost lost everything and now I'm disabled.

>A day of the life of a DEI program manager

>11:00 am - Wake up. Early birds are racist.

>11:30 am - Attend a sync up meeting. Standup is not inclusive. Everyone needs to come up with 5 words to remove from our dictionary.

>12:00 pm - Have lunch at a black-female-owned Chinese restaurant. Scold the owner for cultural appropriation.

>1:00 pm - Meet with one of my program sponsors. Discuss what protest we need to fund next.

>2:00 pm - Check internal Slack messages and mark those who used non inclusive language

>3:00 pm - Have s*x with a queer peer

>4:00 pm - Go back home. Work is racist

>10:00 pm - Attack random people online

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/02/21/europe/ukraine-tough-choices-mobilization-intl-cmd/index.html

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1296573/russia-ukraine-military-comparison/

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/ukraine-faces-dire-shortage-of-munitions-and-manpower-as-russia-ramps-up-offensive

With these numbers it is quite clear that Ukraine is the losing side if they rely only on their current male population.

How likely do you think it is that they will begin drafting the women and sending them to the frontlines if things get desperate enough?

After all, anyone can shoot a gun.

Pogs and most jr ncos need to cowboy the frick up

Outside of the sub echochambers, the normal consensus appears to be that the show vastly failed to capture any of the magic or uniqueness of the books.

"I don't agree with this person about this particular show, but there isn't anything inherently wrong with being easily entertained. What a weird choice of insult."

WRONG WROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG!!!

Respecting people who has the objective bad opinion about media is allowing Foids to ruin your stuff and hobbies!!!!!!!!!!!11111

Cucksoy tries to support his opinion with RIGHT-think reviews!

I want to take a low earth orbit space flight, just to experience microgravity for a bit and see the beauty of the world from up high.

>Police grabbed Tyson, and he resisted being handcuffed and said repeatedly, 'They're trying to kill me' and 'Call the sheriff,' as he was taken to the floor.

>They restrained him - including with a knee on his back - and he immediately told officers he could not breathe.

>Frank Tyson was released from state prison on April 6 after serving 24 years on a kidnapping and theft case and was almost immediately declared a post-release control supervision violator for failing to report to a parole officer, >according to the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction.

could this be a catalyst in election year to kick start a summer of fiery but mostly peaceful riots...the pro hamas shit doesn't seem to be gaining the traction that was hoped for...

🚨BREAKING: At 7am, @Princeton students launched their Gaza Solidarity encampment on the McCosh Courtyard. They join thousands of students across the world in demanding that Princeton divest from Israel, and that Israel end its genocidal campaign—immediately. pic.twitter.com/mYyO2b1ibs

— Writers Against the War on Gaza (@wawog_now) April 25, 2024

RDrama exclusive: I headed down to the protest, kinda quiet this morning. Israeli counter-protestors have now shown up with "bring them back" signs. Mostly old jewish ladies, sort of abortion clinic vibes. Lots of cops, as well as what appears to be a news cam getting set up. No more terrorist flags unfortunately but hopefully the counterprotestors will farm some sneed.

Police got there almost instantly lmao, no wonder there aren't nearly as many hobos over here as in NYC

A couple grad students arrested and kicked out for the protest

Some greasy guitar-playing hippie flying hezbollah flag on the lawn

Indians mourn the loss of one of their own at the school after she got evicted for being an idiot

Unfortunately the subreddit is not particularly active

reposted because i am r-slurred and cant figure out links

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Niru is a very famous MapleStory streamer who became the first person to ever reach 299 lvl. Ever since then a huge amount of people in the community have been watching his streams and waiting for him to get to lvl 300, even the devs were watching him. In his final stream, he managed to get 299 99.99% and immediately logged off the game and started shit-talking the devs right in front of 20k viewers on Twitch

What's even funnier is the fact that the official Maplestory account on Twitter had already made a tweet congratulating him

https://twitter.com/MapleStory/status/1783562860108316936

The devs even promoted the stream through in-game banner but when he started ranting the banner instantly disappeared

The critic here writes:

In the mid-to-late aughts, as The National was gathering acclaim with darkly experimental albums, another artist was rising to prominence: Taylor Swift. On the surface, these two acts are starkly different. Where The National's songwriting is impressionistic, Swift's is diaristic—built on personal stories that typically forgo abstraction or even difficult metaphor. Where The National's charisma lies in its mysteriousness, Swift earnestly says just what she means. The National is known for somber dude-rock; Swift found fame with anthems of heartbroken but upbeat young-womanhood. (In her 2012 hit “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together,” she even jabbed at pretentious guys who are obsessed with dude-rock, like the ex who ran off to listen to “some indie record that's much cooler than mine.”) The National became the house band for a certain segment of Millennial yuppies; Swift became one of the biggest stars in the world.

If The National became the house band for a certain segment of Millennial puppies, Swift becoming one of the biggest stars in the world was a sign of the zeitgeist. Of the explosion of teen/late teen girls all over the internet trying to find the artist with whom they can connect their feelings. And with social media and YouTube, all that search for meaning propelled towards one person: Taylor Swift. Swift wasn't some Disney Hannah Montana Miley Cyrus act, she was a self proclaimed country rock singer. It was very unusual for her to become the world's biggest solo female rockstar since Madonna.

After the pandemic interrupted Swift's promotional plans for her 2019 album, Lover, she reached out to the multi-instrumentalist Aaron Dessner to help produce two new albums, Folklore and Evermore, the latter of which featured all five members of The National—whom she called her “favorite band”

Aaron Dessner has produced 17 out of 31 of her latest album.

Again, the critic points out how Taylor Swift made The National lighter in tone and touch:

Now it appears that Swift may have pushed the men of The National in new directions too. On the band's latest album, First Two Pages of Frankenstein, out in April, Swift's influence feels pervasive. It's not just her voice, which she lends to the lilting track “The Alcott”; she seems to have taught them something about the mode of candid self-expression that she has mastered. In so doing, The National and Taylor Swift have become one of the unlikeliest and most productive synergies in contemporary music—the cross-pollination of a gloomy indie-rock fraternity and proudly sentimental, stadium-charming pop.

And

in First Two Pages of Frankenstein, the songwriting is tighter and often brighter, and Berninger's meanings are remarkably direct. On the hopeful-sounding “New Order T-Shirt,” Berninger collages images with his trademark flair, and then, atypically, explains himself in a chorus that Swift herself might have written: “I keep what I can of you / Split-second glimpses and snapshots and sounds.” Over the danceable beat of “Tropic Morning News,” Berninger even tells a tale about learning to share his inner life: “There's nothing stopping me now / From saying all the painful parts out loud.”

However there is nothing new to this long before Taylor Swift collaborated with The National, they had already started pivoting away from the doom&gloomy of their previous records like High Violet in search of their own tonality. The break came in 2013 with Trouble Will Find Me. With tracks like Sea of Love, Hard to Find and I need my Girl ; they proved more than capable that they are capable of changing. It had nothing to do with Swift (sorry swifties, you don't get points for this one).

But the main thesis of this post:

Taylor Swift has long since realized she can't be doing this Lover or Midnight albums until she would want to get relegated to the sidelines like a caricature like Madonna. Yes she has a Number 1 hit every now and then, but people still view her as "that s*x bomb" from the 80s and that public perception has led her to do some truly questionable stuff (can't sell stuff if you're not relevant, can't be relevant if you're not trying to keep alive the public's perception of you).

Hence the abrupt break in Folklore. Which continued in Evermore. Yes Midnight was a return to the peppy Taylor Swift but TTPD is in style, artwork, lyrics (apart from 4-5 crowd pleasers, you have to turn such a titanic brand like Taylor Swift slowly) and production it is much more The National than The National's 2024 album Laugh Track can be called Swiftesque.

Tl;dr - If The National have been the sad dads of rock, the scotch drinking, white collar, upscale millennial's go to band, Taylor Swift is fast on her way to becoming the suave mom of pop, the wine drinking, city dwelling, upscale late millennial and early Gen Z woman's go to artist. Whatever lyrical and musical differences remain at the end is the most earnest man/woman split in culture.