Long story short I've (28) always wanted to visit Thailand and finally found the time to do so this year. Knowing my parents would probably say something negative about my travels I went ahead and booked my own ticket, and hotels ahead of time. This was so it would be difficult for my parents to tell me not to go.
Anyhow, several days later I told my aunts and uncles about the trip, and they immediately went on about how Thailand was the place to go to get your organs harvested, kidnapped into slavery and cheated out of your money. Several aunts and uncles told me this. Furthermore they told me that my college friend of 8 years that I was meeting in Thailand, who speaks fluent English and I have many other mutual friends with, would backstab me in some way and possibly traffick me.
The following day I get a message from my cousin, telling me not to go and how dangerous it was and how my aunt was worried about me. Then my dad calls me and then tells me the same thing and about how he couldn't sleep last night because of the thought of me going to such a run down and dangerous country. I tried to reassure him but nothing I said could really appease his fear. He told me he had not yet told my mom.
So after I hung up the phone, several minutes later I get bombarded with calls and texts from my mom telling me how I will be human trafficked and infected with HIV, literally paragraphs and paragraphs of text. They even wired me money to tell me to pick a different destination.
I was going to originally go regardless of their opinion but just by how insanely worried they got, legitimately believing these insane ideas about Thailand, I thought it would be best to cancel my flight because I felt extremely guilty in putting my family and extended family in this position of prolonged fear.
I do plan on going in the future, but this time I would not disclose my plans to any of them. However I am so angry. Words cannot describe how angry I am. I have been laying in bed all day and fighting the urge to smash things, but also replaying the other family traumas that have occured in my life where my extremely controlling parents have attempted to ruin my plans, life choices, and been extremely unsupportive in general. Frankly I'm so exhausted by this constant quarreling in this family.
I'm super sad I will not get to fulfill my plans to go to Thailand, meanwhile my parents think this is for my own good and cannot see past their ignorance and stupidity. I've been angry for more than 16 hours and I feel light headed. I'm so sick of this. Thanks for listening.

Cool new film. Probably not a lick of metal in it, but it’s all about Jesus. Remember those questions I used to ask rock stars in the “What So & So Says” articles in HM Magazine?” This movie centers on that one set of questions: “What do you think of Jesus Christ?” and “What do you think about his claims to be ‘the Way, the Truth and the Life, no one comes to the Father but by me?”
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Acclaimed Director Darren Wilson’s New Film, “The God Man,” Premieres in Theaters
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Through Fathom Events for One Night Only – June 6, 2023
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Greenville, SC – June 2, 2023 – Filmmaker Darren Wilson’s latest project, “The God Man,” is set to debut on the big screen for a special one-night-only event on June 6, 2023, through Fathom Events. Known for his powerful documentaries that explore the intersection of faith and spirituality, Wilson’s new film promises to be his most ambitious project yet.
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View Trailer at link below.
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“The God Man” sees Wilson once again traveling the world in attempting to capture God moving on film. His past films (including “Finger of God”, “Father of Lights”, “Holy Ghost”) helped create an entirely new sub-genre of faith-based films where moves of God are caught on camera in real-time. For his latest film, Darren turns his attention to the most famous person in history, Jesus Christ. Through a series of dreams, chance encounters, and divine timing, Darren follows a spiritual rabbit trail that eventually leads to a remarkable conclusion about the nature and character of Jesus.
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“The God Man” is Wilson’s first film to hit the big screen and is the final film in the six-film saga.
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“With “The God Man”, I set out to try to make a Jesus film for a new generation,” said Wilson. “The world is becoming darker and more divided, depression is soaring, and for many people life simply has no meaning. But Jesus has always been the answer. And with this film, I wanted to try to show that Jesus is not church, He’s not religion. But He is the answer to everything.”
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Tickets for “The God Man” are now available for sale through the Fathom Events website and participating theaters. The film will be shown in select theaters across the country on June 6, 2023, at 7:00 PM local time. Tickets can be found and purchased at
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For more information on “The God Man” and other upcoming Fathom Events releases, visit
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About Darren Wilson:
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Darren Wilson is an award-winning filmmaker known for his documentaries exploring faith and spirituality. His previous films include “Finger of God,” “Father of Lights,” and “Holy Ghost.” Devon Franklin, former VP of Production for Columbia Pictures calls Darren, “one of the most innovative filmmakers and authors of faith today.”

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I searched for the answer online but they only mention wife's obedience to husband.
Anyway, I'm in mid 20s F and working remotely since the pandemic. Apart from a week long vacation with family every year i can't go out much. Like literally for more than 300/365 days I'm within the confinement of same four walls. Because 1. i don't live in a well developed town where i can take a stroll in a park or go to a cafe and 2. most of my friends are from different cities and my father doesn't like me travelling to them or with them.
I feel suffocated and it has led to building up a lot of resentment against my parents and also the religion. Now I'm thinking just to book a ticket to somewhere (with friends or solo) and just inform him that I'm leaving, hence the question^.
p.s. I know solo travelling is haram for women but I'm willing to bear the consequences if it means I feel less bitter about my situation.
p.p.s. marriage is out of question :)

We had known each other for about 3 years before our first union. I’ve always had this magnetic pull towards her but we never had a lot of time together. My mother randomly invites me to this festival I felt iffy about going to but I went anyways. As i was packing before leaving, I felt that I was about to meet someone very special.
The day we re-met (10/2022) was when I arrived at the fest. I was relaxing at my moms camp and there she was, in all her radiance. I spoke out to her, we instantly hit it off, and evidently her and my mom became friends the day prior. I felt this undeniable feeling of love for her which threw me off with how early it was. Regardless, I knew what I was feeling was as true. The conversations we shared felt so aligned. I remember her mentioning that she already started building a relationship with her future daughter and for some reason her name really stuck out to me. As we were talking with my mom, my mom invites her to stay and help out with our land in Brazil. She replies ecstatically and shared how she’s been wanting to move to South America since she was a child.
After the festival, the universe managed to align us both to attend another festival the weekend after. On the first day of the fest, we both thought it would be a good idea to host a little changa ceremony (smokable ayahuasca) to start off the weekend grounded before everyone indulges in other substances.
The whole ceremony was beautiful. She was taking care of all the little things I wasn’t thinking about and vise versa. I served her last, she didn’t finish her bowl, and I had this intuitive feeling to take a hit of it as it was still ignited. Although it was a small hit, I was blasted in along with her. I saw her in the most beautiful radiant light. She was a goddess, the divine feminine; the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen. She told me she saw me as a god, the divine masculine. We looked around and saw that our entire soul family was there cheering us on and elated that we were aware of our connection. I remember crying with joy as I returned, thanking the universe for that experience. Shortly after we held each other as we shared our first ‘I love you’.
Later that day as we were sitting and listening to the music, she turns to me and says “so we’re soul mates right?” and I replied with “we’re at least soul mates, no doubt about it”. I begin to see this giant energetic vortex coming down straight from the sky in between the both of us as she says “we’re twin flames”. It instantly all made sense, the unexplainable connections, synchronicities, and signs from the universe. She then hits me with “you have (daughters name’s) eyes”. I was never really interested in having kids but this made me feel happy and excited. The relationship was already so beautiful and divine, I can’t even imagine what an experience it would be to raise and teach and learn from her. I knew there would be nothing but growth, love and healing emanating from that relationship.
As time goes by I notice that she sometimes doubts that experience. I almost had to remind her or reassure her at times. I also noticed she wouldn’t always reply with “I love you” when I would say it to her. It never bothered me for a second. I honestly thought it was cute that she felt overwhelmed with the feelings. It took her quite some time to open up into that space of love and vulnerability but I don’t think she fully got to that space.
Things were progressing beautifully in my eyes. We were serving changa whenever and wherever it was needed; we were able to offer so much healing to our friends and family. My future son came to me and she deeply resonated with his name and shared that she had been seeing it everywhere for months and knew she’d meet someone important with that name. We were making all the right moves towards moving to Brazil to build a healing center and homestead there. She got further in Duolingo than I got (I grew up learning Portuguese lol), got her dog all ready for the trip with vaccines and a passport, sold her valuables. We had told all of our friends and family that we were moving for good; we just didn’t buy out tickets yet.
She sits me down to talk and shares how she wants to work on how she’s always running. She shares how she never lived in one place longer than 6 months growing up so she never had any long lasting friendships/relationships and if there was any problems, she never had to work on them. She said she needed some space to think and be alone. Four days goes by and she comes by my house after work with all my things and says that she believes it’s time for our romantic relationship to end. She says that I deserve someone who knows and that she wasn’t sure herself. I asked if she still believed that we were twin flames and she said she didn’t know if she believed that concept but that she knew we have a strong soul connection. She said she felt that our soul contract was completed and that we taught each other everything we needed to. She did say that she wanted to still be close and that I am her best friend. I didn’t resonate with any of what she said but I accepted things as they were. My whole reality was shattered. That was the last possible thing I expected to happen.
3 days after I joined a mushroom ceremony my mom was hosting. I felt very very deeply but it was needed. My son came to me to reassure me that everything was okay. He taught me to step more into my masculine and become more of the ‘lion’ im meant to be to fully support my family. My daughter came to me the days prior and has continued to come to me through dreams and meditation. I saw her face in detail the other night.
I had the opportunity to come to Brazil with my mom later that month and I took it. I’m currently in Brazil and I’m glad I took that step. I’ve been dreaming of her here. I saw her meditating right next to me around the fire with my family. I had a dream of us in a style of home that is commonly built in this area (I didn’t know until the other day). I have been noticing a lot though. I spun fire for the first time and I thought she’d be the first to support me since she introduced me and taught me a lot of what I know (she didn’t). I noticed she unfollowed me on Duolingo and had blocked me from all her story posts and mine. I notice emotions that come up that don’t feel like mine. I feel like it’s coming from her. I can literally feel her the minute she reads a text I send. I find it interesting because she normally gets over relationships much faster than this (not that it was a normal relationship).
It hurts me but at the same time I have so much compassion because I know she’s going through it. I know all of this is needed and I know she’s my twin. Nothing can shake that out of me but it feels like there’s two sides of me that are constantly conflicting each other. My ego wants an explanation and to understand but my soul knows things beyond my ego’s comprehension. All I can do now is work on myself and trust. I know I’m not being punished and I know the best is coming to me. The universe has helped me get this far and I trust it doesn’t end there. This journey is like no other.

I searched for the answer online but they only mention wife's obedience to husband.
Anyway, I'm in mid 20s F and working remotely since the pandemic. Apart from a week long vacation with family every year i can't go out much. Like literally for more than 300/365 days I'm within the confinement of same four walls. Because 1. i don't live in a well developed town where i can take a stroll in a park or go to a cafe and 2. most of my friends are from different cities and my father doesn't like me travelling to them or with them.
I feel suffocated and it has led to building up a lot of resentment against my parents and also the religion. Now I'm thinking just to book a ticket to somewhere (with friends or solo) and just inform him that I'm leaving, hence the question^.
p.s. I know solo travelling is haram for women but I'm willing to bear the consequences if it means I feel less bitter about my situation.

I'm supposed to travel with my family tomorrow from Kerala to Mumbai by Netravati Express. All of us are allotted B7 coach(tickets are confirmed). I've heard there are only 6 coaches of 3-tier ac. Can anyone confirm if they do add an extra coach or is there some issue? Tia.

Their wasnt anything i could do to help her I took her to vet because i could tell She wasnt holding her stomach or her bowels She was stumbling around like shes drunk Hyperventilating every momment of the day until shed pass out from too short of breaths I got her when i was 15 so "i am not the legal owner". I said to the desk at the vet look at her shes dying right now and your saying you cant help. "Were sorry theirs nothing we can do if your name isnt on the papers". So i went outside and the first thing i did was call the emegency clinic "we've already been notified that you would be calling and requesting that" so i explained to them they dont even live with my dog shes just doing this because her mother died in september "Sorry theirs nothing we can do without her medical infomation and if your name isnt on the papers we cant perform that request"
Atleast i can finally escape My life is destroyed and completly fucked Got hit by a bus car was smashed Caught driving without insurance because of that (i had just started out of school new job) Lost my gas ticket due to the above so their goes the trade i dreamt of and 10k 2 years wasted Atleast i can finally escape I dont have any friends anymore because i was the one who cut ties after several home invasions. "accidents/incidents" is a polite word for attacks for what was happening. Im the only person who got cleaned and sober but maybe if i stayed a fucking addict like them i wouldnt be in this situation right now Atleast i can finally escape It took me the last 2 years to fully come to terms of being raped when i was 5-6 by people who are no longer family Atleast i can escape Ive been living with a abusive step father for the last 26 years because i didnt want to lose my dad. My mother and sister ran awaybbecause of it but every time i tried to leave with my dog i needed her medicial infimation to complete the application. They didnt give me the medical papers until a week before. Atleast i can escape Im a fucking loser who hasnt even tried to talk to girls on over a year from embrassent of everything Atleast i can escape I no longer have the one thing in this world that mattered to me But atleast i can escape right ?

BeyondtheGM EP 22 featured special guests Doodles CEO Julian Holguin and head of Business Development and Strategy Austin Hurwitz. Great listen where many heard the vision from the Doodles team for the first time.
Heres the show if anyone wants to listen back. https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1OdKrzqrMbYKX
I've shared some of the Doodles related Q&A and alpha below:
Can you share some details about your latest announcement for those who haven't seen it yet?
Julian: Doodles is partnering with a company called Camp to launch our first ever immersive retail experience and for those of you that don't know what camp is, it's basically a network of hybrid play / shopping experiences where the front of the establishment is basically a toy store, but think of it like a specialty toy store. It's kind of like a modern day FAO Schwarz or something like that. It's got all the viral kids toys. It's not just like walking into a Toys R Us or a Target or something like that, t's kind of got that specialty feel to it. That makes up about I'd say less than a sixth of the space but in the back of that toy store, there's this hidden door and a camp counselor is waiting for you if you purchased a ticket to the immersive experience, you push through that magic door and behind that is essentially a 6000 square foot immersive experience that totally brings the world that you're going into to life. So they partner with some big IP to actually program those experiences. Los Angeles is Nike. It's called Nike Kids Camp.
New York is Disney's Encanto, a really big Disney animation movie that kind of took the world by storm last year. Dallas is Mickey Mouse and friends. Atlanta is The Little Mermaid. So obviously some of the biggest IP in the world. We are launching a new location with them this summer. So basically, we're going to be introduced to a whole new set of potential people in the particular market that we're going to be in because these experiences actually serve a purpose in those specific markets for longer than say 2 or 3 days. They are permanent establishments in those markets. So we're going to stay there for about 3 to 6 months and then the Doodles show will likely go on the road to some of their other locations. The solution that camp solves is what do you do with your family today? What do you do today? Do you have something to do with your kids, which is always on a parent's mind, right? Whether you're taking them to the park or you're taking them to Disneyland or you're taking them wherever you want to go. This is like a 2 or 3 hour thing that is really kind of hard to replicate, that gets people out of the house and you can have truly an incredible time.
My kids love it. So the the cool thing for us is that we get to bring one of our core competencies to life in a really material way where we know it's valuable to pop up at these big cultural moments like South-by and Art Basel, but it's a pretty resource intensive process to do that, and it's a pretty budget intensive process to do that. So we figured it made a lot of sense to kind of reallocate some of that funding into turning this concept into a true business, which is essentially what camp is, One, we're going to be selling merchandise, we're going to be selling tickets to the event, we're going to be selling sponsorships to the event. So there's a real business there but the big opportunity for Doodles is there's going to be thousands of new people that don't know anything about Doodles coming into this experience, and we have the opportunity to bring them into our world. We have the opportunity to bring those people on chain, especially with what we have planned and how the technology is almost going to be invisible to the people that are in there.
It's ultimately just going to be a great digital / physical consumer experience. So really, really excited. The utility that that's going to drive ultimately to holders is VIP all access, it's going to be free entry, whereas everybody else has to pay. There's going to be merchandise credits, there's going to be true like white glove concierge services. So whenever a Doodle holder is going to go to the the space in a given day, week, whatever it might be, they're actually going to have the really VIP experience that's going to come with all the bells and whistles and they're going to feel very, very special and not the kind of experience that everybody else is going to have when they go to the event and hopefully in time that space is going to travel so a lot more Doodle holders are going to be able to take part in it but one of the big things that we've heard in general from holders about our live events is, oh man, it's two days, three days, like what if I'm not able to make it that particular weekend? This is going to enable people to have a little bit more travel plans put together if they do want to make it all the way out here but the cool thing is, it's going to travel.
We're still going to do live events in other parts of the world but this is a big one for us. The other part is that we're actually going to introduce our first line of kids merchandise, goods and apparel, which is something that the community has been asking for. We have a lot of parents in the Doodles community and it's also a way to introduce the brand to a lot of new people. As far as the experience itself, there's going to be like dayparting programing. So kids and family programing is going to be in the day for the most part and then at night there's going to be stuff that's more focused on adults. So multiple generations can take part in this. It's going to be a blast. I can't wait for everybody to see the designs, what the experience is going to look like, how it's going to connect to our collector ecosystem in the studio and bring NFT's to life in a really meaningful way. It's going to be awesome. Can't wait for you all to see it.
I'm looking forward to the day parting. I'm wondering if you could share any timelines, anything in terms of location and where we can expect them or should we stay tuned?
Julian: The location is going to be a reveal within itself so I don't want to say that here because the reason we're not bringing up the location yet is because there's a really big opportunity to get a lot of local press. You want the local newspapers, radio stations, local bloggers and everything like that talking about it. So we want to reveal the designs and everything when we announce the location so we get as many people in the particular area that we're going to be in aware of the activation as possible. Timing wise, the experience is going to open in August. There might be a little fluidity in what exact time in August but it's August right before the school year starts for everybody so it's not too far away and then as far as like you asked kind of a leading question with adult versus kids experiences. You know, if you grow up in New York or any of these cities and you do kind of more mellow, like you've been kind of like boozy painting before or doing like casual things you bring drinking like wine and beer into it. It turns into like a really fun night out for adults. This isn't going to be a rage fest kind of thing but the idea is that we're going to be able to serve alcohol and create some really cool friend and family driven experiences that are a lot more geared towards adults. So it'll be a good time.
What's it like working with Pharrell and what's his involvement with the Doodles project at the moment?
Julian: That that was the first thing we did. Again, remember how much interest there was in the blue chip NFT projects back in April, May, June of last year and there were a lot of opportunities for us to work with some major major musicians that have global reach and millions of followers and we really saw the value in working with a creator to help us incubate the brand but they needed to be dynamic and Pharrell is the most dynamic, genius, brilliant creator that in our opinion has really ever lived and he spans music, he spans art, he spans fashion, film, television, technology, everything. So, we had started talking to him basically right when I started and we got the deal done very quickly. Pharrell is a pretty material part of the business, most of the work that he does is kind of behind the scenes, the Pharrell pack and him coming into the Doodles universe as a character was the first big collab that we did but we're working on music together, we're working on audio identity and visual identity and brand development etc and the doors that guy can open are truly unprecedented, the rooms that he's walked us into. I don't want to name drop but top C-suite in the world, top creators in the world, top everything. Pharrell's name comes with so much weight because he has the respect of everybody from business to creative and fashion and everything in between and the thing that surprised me most well, I shouldn't say surprised me, but the thing that I think would surprise most people is how shrewd of a business mind the guy has, he's always leaning into new technology, new ways of doing things. He's kind of contrarian, but he really understands business. He really understands opportunity and he's very leaned into Doodles, which is exciting. We couldn't be more blessed to have his have his support and have his mind on the on the company.
I really enjoyed Scott's (Burnt Toast) version of Pharrell. Could you talk about the expansion of the Doodleverse and the ethos behind it?
Julian: If you look at the end card to the most recent trailer that promoted the Pharrell pack, Doodles2, the stoodio, everything that we released last month, what you're going to find in that is a bunch of random Doodles characters that could be anybody, could be anybody on this call, could be people in South Dakota, could be people in Hong Kong, could be people wherever.
Then you see Pharrell, who is Pharrell in that universe and then you see our mascot who is obviously going to be the main character of our fictional universe. So you have the real world in there, through their Doodle, you have Pharrell who's also part of the real world in there through their Doodle and then you have the fictional characters from Doodles in that photo as well. So if you think about where we're going as a brand, we're developing this fictional universe of characters that are derived from the original collection. So you've seen the mascot, you've seen the cat, all of that stuff is going to be developed into a fictional line of programing and then running parallel to that is the lifestyle brand that is Doodles, right? You make your Doodle, you buy your Doodle merch, you go to Doodles events, you're on Twitter talking to other Doodles, there are Doodle holders that are more well known than other Doodle holders simply because they engage more and they're more kind of public figures in the community and we kind of believe that as that starts to grow, those two, that kind of lifestyle brand and real world aspect of the Doodles will crash into the fictional world at times.
Maybe you do see a creator or someone that you know in the actual fictional world of the universe, or maybe you as a Doodle holder, whether it be through your Doodle or the customized Doodle that you create, will be in that fictional universe as well, the same way that Lady Gaga was a character in The Simpsons, or The Weeknd was a character in The Simpsons, set in the fictional world of The Simpsons but they're Lady Gaga. They're The Weeknd. So we have this really cool track of programing where you can bring digital identity to the table and collecting. We have this kind of sincere belief that digital identity paired with collecting connected to every single consumer touchpoint, whether it be going to the movies, watching television, buying stuff at retail, playing video games, if you can bring that back to a collecting hub where the brand knows who their most loyal supporters are, who engage with the company the most, who are supporting the most and you can reward those people and create aligned incentives as our business grows. That's something really special that brings the brand and the ultimate collector closer together, which makes them feel like they are part of the universe because they actually are going to be part of the universe. They're not going to be just a passive participant and the best way I can give you kind of a framework for how that doesn't exist today.
If you look at most movie IP, they license the movie rights out to a distribution company that actually puts the movie out, which then goes to theaters so they don't actually own the relationship with their customer. You buy merchandise through another third party, so they license it to another third party. They license their books and publishing rights. They license their music rights. They license everything out and they don't actually own the relationship with a lot of their audience. So they have no way of knowing who their most loyal supporters are, who goes and sees the movie three times, who plays the game, who buys the merch, who shows up at the theme parks and the events? What's really cool about the technology that we all work in is we could figure out a way to track all of that and make sure that those people are not just being seen and heard, they're getting stuff, they're getting more rewards, they're creating this sense of identity being close to this brand because they're actually going to feel like they're part of it with all the activations that we have planned. We think that's a business model and a mindset that doesn't exist today and that that's really where we're leaning in.
Are there any projects or founders or individuals that you guys chat with a lot or anyone you guys want to meet?
Julian: Yeah, obviously day to day work kind of gets in the way of, you know, people spending too much time together but Luca and I talk pretty often, he actually hooked me up with a couple of the plushies for my kids. They loved them. So there's there's definitely love and support there. I talk to Greg from Yuga every now and then, I've connected with Zag a couple of times but it's not as much as it should be and I think that's kind of the real takeaway, is that, we should be coming together as leaders in this space more often, because if one of us wins, all of us wins and there's so much incredible work being done right now, we just we need to figure out better ways of kind of taking ourselves out of the day to day and the kind of the pitting ourselves against each other that exists so much on the timeline right now and just remember, we're all fighting the same fight, right? We're trying to take market share from all the biggest companies in the world, not from each other. If Web3 makes it, it's not going to be just one of us that makes it. It's going to be a few of us. It's going to be a bunch of us and it's ultimately just going to create more opportunity for everybody building in this space. So more of that 100% needs to happen.
How do you feel about the sentiment? Obviously you guys went through a lot of FUD and now you're kind of bouncing back. How do you feel about the NFT space and where you guys kind of see yourselves fitting in?
Julian: I think anybody who saw our keynote at NFTNYC last year, we are doing every single thing that we said we were going to do. I think there's a misconception in how long this stuff actually takes to develop, to reach millions of people around the world, how long it takes to get music to market and film and television content to market and true partnerships and things like that. You know, especially when you kind of have the bar for quality that Doodles does. I think one of the areas that we've fallen flat is just communication and community building in general and I think that's something that if hopefully you've been paying attention lately, you've seen that there's a real concerted effort internally to try and bridge that gap and to try and rebuild that vibe in the Doodles community. It's something we think about every day. Austin has been invaluable in that regard and truly making the community understand that we are a Web3 company. We do care deeply about this space. We do sincerely believe in the technology and what it's going to do for brands and IP.
We really do feel like every action and activity we take is not just going to benefit Doodles, it's going to benefit everybody in our community and everybody in the Web3 community at large. So has it hurt to see kind of Web3 not as pumped about Doodles anymore? Yeah, it's definitely something we think about, but we're not going to sit here and try and sell, sell, sell to the space on why we're great. What we're going to do is just prove it by shipping product and show people that we really are in this for the right reasons and it'll start to make more and more sense over time. We're kind of sick of talking about what we're going to do and we're just going to show people and think by the end of the summer, by the end of September, you're going to you're going to see a very, very different looking business that the community is truly at the center of. So we're excited for that.
You guys are talking about collectibles and I think Burnt Toast recently shared a photo of a monochrome dude. You guys are working with All Rights Reserved who is definitely a premium art / toy sculpture producer. I would love to know a little bit more about how you connected and maybe a little bit more that around what we can expect for that that drop.
Julian: So this relationship predates me joining but Evan got introduced to SK, I believe through Todd Kramer, who's a big art collector, and he has a gallery in New York and I believe they really hit it off kind of from the beginning and the first the first vinyl that came out was so successful, people were going crazy for that thing and it became very clear that hese vinyl stand toe to toe with Bearbrick statues and Kaws statues and we had a real opportunity in the designer toy market. So we really wanted to start to double down on that concept and try and play in that space. So we've been developing a strategy for a while on how we actually bring that to a wider audience and get that in the right kind of environment so this, this summer, August, actually, we're going to be doing a big drop tied to the physical's, the vinyl that you saw. There's going to be multiple colorways. There's going to be some really interesting, I'll say expanded things outside of the toy, outside of the figure itself but it's going to have some specialty retail distribution so it'll be at some key retailers, both digital retailers and physical retailers, All those retailers are going to be distributed around the world.
There's some pretty select markets that we're going into and then that is going to lead directly into the camp opening a few weeks later. So it's pretty exciting. The vinyls are definitely a big area of growth for us because we see them as a way to reach new collectors, new people. It's not enough to try and sell everything to the people that are here today, what we need to be able to do is actually bring these these experiences and these products to as many new people as possible. I think one of the things that Luca actually said when they did the toys was, being financially independent so you don't need to continue putting more and more NFT's in the ecosystem. I don't think that means any of us are going to stop producing NFT's but the whole idea of being able to make those experiences incredible because you have a real business outside of it. I think that is a really great takeaway and something that we think is possible through this drop and the other stuff that's coming soon. We're talking so much more man. It's going to be crazy.
One thing I would like to hear your thoughts about is how are you trying to to bring value back to holders from these events? If I walk into a Camp store, do I know that Doodles is a originated from an NFT project or is there another another strategy like a Trojan horse?
Julian: I think the goal for us and thank you for that question, but the goal for us is more how do you eliminate the technological barrier between someone that has no appetite for it but might be interested in your brand? And as the brand grows and as the technology gets a little bit more seamless and people start to understand what the original collection actually means, that there's a lot more demand for that because there's only 10,000 of them. So if we all of a sudden reach millions of people and those millions of people know that there is this collectible that started it all, it's the original artwork but that artwork is also it's the first edition Pokemon card, right? That's kind of the parallel that I'd say and then that art is attached to this essentially membership, that is the ultimate access pass within the ecosystem, right? Like the Pharrell pack, there was only 300 of them, but you couldn't get one if you didn't have an original Doodle So that was basically a free airdrop. You had to hit certain metrics, engagement metrics within the community to actually get the pack but that was just one iteration of it. We'll have that for a lot of drops where, there will be, a certain amount of things that are free and the free thing will always come to people that own the original Doodle and then the free entry specifically speaking about camp, free entry to the experience when everyone else has to pay, merchandise credits and then a true white glove concierge service where you're you're going to reach out to Doodles before you go and then you're going to be set up with this kind of VIP experience at that location.
If you believe that Doodles has the opportunity to grow and turn into a bigger brand, you know that free airdrops and claims and free claims on merchandise in one location is not going to be all the utility that there is for the original collection. We're going to build a lot more than that and that is kind of how we see value trickling back down to the original token, we're also going to be licensing people's Doodles to use in media, to use in products. We haven't done it yet because we just haven't figured out the right way to make it scalable. It's kind of a big thing to set that precedent this early, especially if you have the kind of ambition we do to go as big as we want to go but we are thinking about that and we are going to bring that to market soon and then the last thing that I'll bring up is just the Doodle bank, which is honestly, I feel like a really under the radar thing. We have a $5 million or so fund that only people with a Doodle can access to build businesses around the Doodles brand, to build creator platforms around the Doodles brand. I would love to see a Doodle holder try and access the Doodle brand to actually build some of the stuff that you've been able to build, right? How can we help subsidize costs so they can create their own podcast studio so they can advertise their content a little bit more all through the Doodles brand, which is ultimately aligned incentives
You as a creator get bigger. Doodles gets more of a microphone because you're getting bigger as a creator and then the last couple pillars of the Doodle bank is also rewards , so how can we use the funds in the Doodle bank to actually create more rewards for Doodle holders, is it sponsoring a concert tour? Is it trying to get memberships to a specific social club? There's so many different things that we can use to drive value back to the original token with this fund and ultimately empower the creators and the entrepreneurs that exist in our ecosystem. So I'd say we're doing so much to try and drive value back to the original token, but I think people will I think people will start to see that when there's truly like real world utility Pharrell pack was one iteration. We've done an airdrop with the Dooplicator, we're doing this experience with camp and it'll keep going from there.
Have you guys kind of like established your council? How do you guys kind of think about the Doodle Banks as it operates as I guess a "DAO" tied to Doodles itself? What does the structure look like, high level?
Austin: In terms of where we're at with it right now. We've installed the first class of the DoodleBank community council, which consists of a chair to oversee the council, a treasurer who is distributing the funds and tracking the finances, an events lead who is going to be building out community global programing, a grants lead, which is really when Julian speaks about how do we empower individuals to build businesses, whether it be through grants or ways to prop up businesses through their IP and then a rewards lead who is focused on how can we bring in additional benefits to holding a Doodle. They have been live since the top of May and right now are developing the processes for how approvals come in, what the approval process looks like, effectively what are our guidelines and what we're looking to support, our budgets overall per quarter and then have also been fielding questions and feedback from the community. So it's been great. They serve multiple roles in addition to just their remit, given their different titles. They're also really our first line of taking in feedback and doing product reviews.
Austin: They're all under NDA and really have a clear sense of where we're going. So it's been great to be able to build with the community in that way but our intention is that in pretty short order, like within call it the next few weeks, we want to get these processes out to the community for feedback and start taking in the first set of proposals. We also really love the nouns model of like the prop house RFP, so for things that we know we need to do as a company, but we want to be able to empower the community to be able to help build with us we effectively want to have bounties that we can put out there, whether it be to create content or create merchandise or whatever the case may be, have it be more of a two way street than just reactively taking in proposals. We're we're moving really quickly. I'm literally in a Slack channel with with the council right now as they're giving me all of their weekend updates but it's been progressing and hope to have more for the community soon.
I'm curious to see how you guys do it. I think we've noticed that you need a processes onboarding and kind of filtering and then also controlling budgets and you sometimes see proposals that are grossly overestimated so being smart about allocation, making it efficient etc
Austin: It's a great point to illustrate and we are very fortunate with the few individuals we have as Treasurer and the grants lead. John Shank, who is our Treasurer was a CFO for a large corporation for a long time and really focused on having a balanced budget. How do we ultimately bring additional funds into the bank and what are the checkpoints over time? So instead of distributing all those funds up once, how do we ensure that we're getting the necessary reporting and then Eyal who is our grand lead has actually run incubators in the past and ensuring that we have the right checks and balances as we're deploying that capital to ensure what you just said doesn't happen, that we're not put in a situation where we're deploying funds and we're not seeing the direct action that's being taken against them.
Does it mean that there are no more pop ups this year or are there also some plans to keep going with the pop ups or other plans?
Julian: It definitely does not mean no pop ups. That's core to our DNA and it's also such an incredible onboarding opportunity, when we went to Something In The Water festival, Pharrel's festival in Virginia Beach, there were so many spokes to that partnership where we basically brought a 30 by 30 space. We sold the new collaboration that we had on site with ice cream. So all these people now have Doodles products that were there and bought the merchandise and right next to that was kind of a live demo of Doodles2 where we were able to capture people's emails so we can send them marketing after the fact. We got a few thousand emails at that activation, we sold a bunch of merchandise and we basically introduced a lot of people to the brand and on the other side of it like, okay, what does that do for the holder apart from growing the ecosystem, which we do find pretty valuable to ultimately Doodle holders and our entire ecosystem but we were able to secure 50 tickets that we gave to the community for free in a raffle and they were VIP tickets. They were super close to the stage, there were credits involved in them and for the people that went, it was a really awesome experience and then the other piece is that when you talk about creators in our community. JKB, Juicy, Kat, Sammy. I'm not sure how familiar any of you are with them, but they're very prominent members of our community.
They've been around for a very long time. They basically started their own media brand based on their Doodles PFP's and this is the second time that we've actually had them kind of live blog and create content on behalf of Doodles at the actual festival. So you saw them kind of do like A day in the life with Doodles and JKB, taking content of like festival goers, the stages, the experiences and then distributing that stuff, on Twitter and their other social channels. So it was a really cool thing that we could do for creators in our space and what I'll say kind of directly answer your question is, Something In The Water was just the first festival thing that we've done this year. We're going to show up at other music festivals. We're going to continue to do live events and what we built for something in the water was an activation that can travel a lot more easily. So South by Southwest, Art Basel, those things were very hard to pack up and repurpose, we have aspects of that, but this new activation that we've built, we can actually ship it from place to place and we can continue to add on to it depending on the actual activation itself. So festivals will always be and other live events will always be a way to drive utility for holders and also onboard new people into the ecosystem.
Julian: Doodles is about fun, man. We want to color the world with joy. We want everybody to feel the vibes and it's incredible to work on it every day. It's hard keeping things a secret, it's painful sometimes.
Can you tell me anything about the Pharrell album? I understand it's with Columbia, who are part of Sony Music. Is there anything you can kind of say on the project and when that could be landing?
Julian: Sure. So the album's not actually going to roll out as a traditional album where there's like a bunch of songs they're going to roll out. It's going to roll out kind of song by song and more as a platform on a perpetual basis. Columbia is going to distribute the music and I don't want to give too much detail because there's going to be a lot of hype in the reveal but you're going to see things like a music video set in the Doodles universe featuring whatever artist is going to be on it. Pharrell curated or produced tracks. Collectibles that are paired both physical and digital with the actual music itself and wide distribution so the songs are going to be on Spotify, Amazon, YouTube, radio, etcetera. So that's kind of how it's going to come to life and if you looked at Pharrell as a Doodle and Pharrell coming into the Doodles universe as a character, imagine some of your favorite artists coming into the Doodles universe as a character too. It's going to be a pretty eclectic mix of artists and it's going to roll out again, like I said, over time. That really is all I can say at the moment, but we'll update everybody as soon as we possibly can. All I can tell you is it's going to be fire.
You guys recently made an amazing acquisition with GoldenWolf Studios. Can we expect more animations and stuff on the Socials? What's the sort of direction with Golden Wolf and how did that come about?
Julian: That's a great question. So we acquired Golden Wolf back in January. They are an Emmy nominated creative studio. They're one of the most highly regarded animation studios in the world. Lot of brand notoriety from them in the entire animation industry. The goal, if you think of what Doodles is, there's a term in media called transmedia and that essentially means you tell stories on different channels, right? So different channels means you could be telling stories through live events, you could be telling stories through the distribution of toys, you could be telling stories through social media, you could be telling stories at the box office with a big film and the whole point is, you're not trying to fit one story or one thing for each of those channels that have very unique characteristics from a distribution standpoint. So Doodles is the kind of brand that needs to tell stories across all of these channels and meet people where they are, where they're actually spending their time versus trying to put the same thing out across the board. So GoldenWolf, which is very much specializes in social content and brand identity in advertisement. They're an incredible partner to keep kind of the always on content flow pumping out for Doodles, which is just starting to ramp up now and at the same time, with all the incredible creators, plus Scott and the people that we're working with in the traditional entertainment industry, bringing the actual story together, the universe that is Doodles, who the characters are, what adventures they go on, what is the backstory? What's the conflict?
Golden Wolf, Scott and a few others are actually developing that now and that is going to manifest itself through all of our content, through all of our product, all of our storytelling opportunities, while we're also developing long form content. So what does Doodles look like as a streaming television show or a motion picture? How does Doodles go into music videos like Golden Wolf is going to produce the music videos. So from a creative standpoint, we have, in my opinion, the best creative studio in the world, developing Doodles content and brand and I'll just say we just started the integration recently, there's kind of been really nothing yet. We've gotten started. It's been amazing, but there's so much coming from Golden Wolf soon and then I'd say on the flip side, Golden Wolf being in Web3 is not an insignificant thing either. So yes, it's amazing that they're going to help develop the Doodles IP but Golden Wolf has a lot of other ideas that NFT's and blockchain technology could be a really great format for incubating that IP or bringing new stories to life and new projects to market and leveraging the tech in new ways and Ingi who founded that company ten years ago is one of the smartest guys in the entire space, he's a true innovator, leaned into tech really leaning into AI tooling and how that can help Doodles as a business, how that can help the whole animation industry as a business. So we're just kind of seeing a little fruit from that partnership right now, but it's going to continue to grow pretty, pretty significantly from there. We really do have a crazy, talented team like Scott and then also Sammy and Alfie. There's so many brilliant creatives at Golden Wolf, and you'll get to know a lot of them soon.
Have you guys made any made any new key hires or are you guys planning to make some key hires to kind of push this forward?
Julian: We kind of wrapped up the majority of our hiring after our head of business and legal affairs came into the company about a month or so ago. I mean, we're at 60 people right now across Doodles and Golden Wolf, so we're pretty staffed well, there's some more product and engineering resources that we're going to be bringing in so we can be quicker to market with a few things but I'd say we're pretty well staffed at this point.
So to build on top of what you've said, I was wondering if you guys could give us any insights into the Doodles culture, the work culture.
Julian: I love that question. So we just opened an office in Miami a couple months ago. Our team is distributed, so we have some people that are remote. We have some people that are here in Miami. We have an office in New York. We have an office in London and again, there are people that are remote. So for the people that are in Miami, the office is pretty awesome. It's got a pretty, pretty cool view. It's right in a really good area of the city and when you walk in, it's very much neutral tones and colors and things like that and then we make the space pop with product that we have. So there's vinyls all over the office. We bring other IP into the office like we have this gold Mickey Mouse that that Jordan donated, it was a Fantasia Mickey Mouse with him holding a Bitcoin instead of a magic ball, just a lot of different artists and IP that we respect to try and inspire some creativity in the space. We have this really cool synthesizer that Evan got made, where people come in, play it. It's actually like a Doodles synthesizer.
We have a merchandise kind of like retail display. We have all of our statues on display. So you can check out our brand, learn a little bit more about us. We also have this pretty cool ice cream set up like actual ice cream and then the New York office couldn't be a different vibe. It's more of a grunge studio, true artsy vibe and then it's the same kind of thing in London in Shoreditch. The original GoldenWolf office.
It's awesome. I think what we're trying to bring to life is the inspiration of creativity and trying to emulate a lot of the incredible IP that we respect so much and we do remote work sessions, so we try and bring people all together, at least once or twice a quarter so we can all get those creative juices flowing, build relationships with each other because if we're going to truly be a community outside of the company, we got to be one internally first so it's been really cool trying to build the culture here and I think we've been doing a pretty good job.
I'm wondering for future pop ups or activations or installations that you guys are having, will there be places where people can actively onboard into the community, whether that's Doodles2 or the original collection?
Julian: Definitely at what I'll call Non-endemic to Doodles stuff, so festivals and more consumer facing events. The reason why we showed up at South by Southwest and Art Basel last year was because we were this really hot Web3 brand in a sea of some of the biggest companies and brands in the world. Whereas as when you go to the when you go to the NFT events, you're like the headline. Right? I think the opportunity to gain notoriety in those environments is really a big opportunity, but it's also an opportunity to bring your holders close to the action that all the influencers of the world, are part of. So when Doodle throws the massive event at Art Basel and it's like one of the tickets of the weekend and our holders are the VIP entrance into that thing we're going to continue to do stuff like that. We really love that concept and at the same hand, use that opportunity to bring new people into the brand. The goal right now is to onboard, people into kind of like information gathering until the stoodio product is actually out of beta. So we're collecting emails so we can retarget these people and make sure that they understand who we are, what we're doing, etcetera so that's kind of the strategy for us.

This is my first time posting on Reddit so my apologies if I don’t follow the correct format. There was an arcade game at Chuck E. Cheese that I used to be really good at but I can’t remember the name of it for the life of me. It was a coin stopper game that centered around monsters. If I remember correctly the monsters would line up with targets and if the coin hit the target with a monster lined up with it you’d get points. And some monsters had letters attached to them I think and if you collected all the letters ( I think it spelled out monster or something like that) you’d get to play this maze mini game for extra tickets. I remember there being two slot where tickets would come out of. If someone could show me a picture of this game or provide me a name it’d be greatly appreciated!
Platform: Chuck E. Cheese arcades, possibly more arcades.
Genre: Coin dropper (not to be confused with coin pusher games).
Estimated Year of Release: I played it as a kid so it was in Chuck E. Cheese around 2012-2016.
Graphics/Art Style: It had a cartoony art style.
Notable Characters: Just a variety of different monsters.
Notable Gameplay Mechanics: You would drop coins on targets as the monsters moved across the screen lining up with them. Also the mini game I mentioned.
Other Details: Very colorful.

I (F30) have multiple children but this "issue" centers around my 9yr old daughter.
She has been watching youtube videos (supervised, obviously) for a little over a year now. This started off with slime and challenge videos and now has evolved in to a more family-vloggers orientated preference.
I wasn't happy about that as I personally feel like people vlogging and very publicly sharing every second of every day of their kids personal lifes are dispicable and taking advantage of their child(ren). Obviously i'm talking about the content that goes way beyond sharing a cute photo or video with friends and family.
Now, despite the fact that I wasn't happy about it I didn't stop her from watching this. It isn't violent or sexual in nature and I figured I could take this opportunity to provide some education towards the repercussions of what you share online and how to responsibly analyse and consume content.
This has gone decently well, obviously she's only 9 so she can't quite grasp everything involved fully yet.
Now, over the last couple of months she has been pretending to be a vlogger, walking around with an old phone, talking to an audience she doesn't have and sharing her day to day life. As this was "pretend" I kept half an eye on it as it was happening but mostly just let her play.
Now, she has learned that one of her classmates (also F9) was allowed an account on tiktok and has been allowed to make content of her own (mostly dance-videos and copying make up tutorials from what i've gathered) and she has decided she also wants to have a tiktok-account.
I said no, explained why and she had an absolute meltdown. In typical preteen fashion she accused me of "not understanding", "ruining her life" and "holding her back because i'm too old to understand that's how things are now." I, again, told her that until she was old enough to fully understand tge possible repercussions of what you put online and grasp the variety of dangers the internet hosts she would not be allowed on any social media.
She stated that "other parents make content of their kids" and that it's obviously fine if other people do so, as those kids are okay and safe so why wouldn't she be.
I always try to have conversations and try to explain my reasoning in stead of being the "because I said so" type of parent and in doing so the discussion escalated to the point where i'm wondering if I, for now at least, should be barring family and childvlogging from my home, until she has the capacity to be more critical and look at this with the appropriate context.
I am also aware that this is my personal opinion and that many people will disagree with me, including my daughter. I encourage them to form their own opinions and obviously we're bound to disagree on some things, and that's okay.
That being said; the internet truly is a dangerous place and I wouldn't allow my child near a drughouse to be able to form her own opinion on drugs, so maybe I should not allow her on the internet in the capacity she wants quite yet and in the process bar or limit the content that encourages to do so.
But on the other other hand, banning something only makes it more attractive.
As you can probably tell I have been debating myself on this for a solid amount of hours by now and I truly do not know how to proceed.
So here I am, wondering how other people/parents view this and how they handle it. I would also like to know if my view on this is truly outdates or if i'm ill informed. What do you guys think?
EDIT; It is important to note that she does not have a phone or tablet of her own and uses mine or an old one without internet access .

So, I don’t know if this happens with you guys, but for me, every game where I’m not directly involved with the Entente/3I war it always ends the same way, Italy and SandFrance fall, Canada very briefly makes landfall in the UOB and COF before getting thrown back into the sea, but the 3I is never able to make its way over to Canada to actually invade and the 2 factions end up stuck in permanent war together.
And so I was thinking, why not give them a white peace route similar to the Japanese one or the Canadian one you get when losing to the CSA? It could be triggered after the war had went on long enough and if Natfrance, Italy, Sardinia and Portugal had already fallen to the syndies leaving Canada and her dominions on their own.
It would be one of those pop-up events that automatically happen for the PC, but players are given a chance to do it or opt out and what it would do is as follows:
1) it ends the entente/3I war immediately, the conquered lands in natfrance, Sardinia, Italy…etc would remain in the hands of the syndies, but any territory in Canada or her dominions would be returned.
2) The King-Emperor will have to formally renounce any claim to mainland Britain, he can no longer style himself as “King of the United Kingdom”, he is now the King of Canada and the Canadian empire.
3) enforce a long lasting truth between both sides and any casus belli either of them have is cancelled.
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Now, once the peace with honour is finalised, Canada is now faced with a choice in the focus trees, it can go either one of two routes:
1) They support their emperor, the focus tree would Center around Canada reinventing itself as the new Center of the “Canadian Empire” erasing any distinctions between the “British exiles” and the Canadians and shoring up control over the dominions, maybe even bringing them more under a centralised government from Canada and appointing members of the royal family as governors-general of each dominion. And of course, getting new allies to protect themselves against any new danger that may come.
2) They go their own way, depose the emperor and announce a new republic. This tree will instead focus on decolonisation, releasing each dominion as its own independent nation and gathering them into a new “British Commonwealth” faction and focusing on economic, civil and military reforms so Canada can finally venture into the future as a truly independent and sovereign nation.

Hello! Hoping to sell two mobile tickets to & Juliet for Sunday 6/4 at 3pm. Face value of each ticket is $249. Selling both for $450. The seats are in the Orchestra Center section, row C, seats 111 & 112.
Can meet to get cash.

So I wanna incorporate three cactuses, representing my family ( dad cactus will have a moustache, mom cactus will have a ribbon on head, child cactus will be holding a balloon ) It is going to be a wrap around tattoo on my forearm. So the scenery would be a desert with some birds, pyramids and other desert stuffs going on in the background. The cactus will be the center of attention ( colored) rest of them are BnW. Can someone help me come up with a sketch that I can refer it to my tattoo artist? I want the background to be filled ( not too cluttered) but i wanna make use of the spaces wisely! Thanks in advance :)
EDIT- I dont want it to be realistic. I would like to keep it cartoony to some extent

Me and my girlfriend have been together for quite some time now (a little over 2 years)
She was great in the beginning, super caring, lovely, bubbly, loved to go out and have fun. Then out of nowhere she practically went day and night, started wearing all black, big eyelashes, a little too much makeup (trust me when I say this too). None of these things are the problem, the problem mainly the arguments.
I moved in with her grandparents who live right next door to her and they’ve welcomed me with open arms, paid for my college tuition, a place to live, food, let’s me use their car etc.. I pretty much see them as my own grandparents
We argue about anything and everything all the time, she threatens to kll herself if she doesn’t get to do certain things, she bit her grandfather on the arm, she has threatened to sh*t her mom if she got admitted. In December after an argument she stated that she would like to go on a short break just so she could be better mentally. To my “surprise” she added a bunch of guys and was flirting with them, including one of my friends from highschool. Who she also had been talking to/about with her friends for a duration of us being together. Obviously I was pissed, and there was just more and more.
So why didn’t I break up then? She told me she never did anything with these people although she claimed to her friends that she dated these people. Anyways I trusted her and I stayed.
Fast forward to now, we got into an argument because I told her I felt like I wasn’t being heard or understood, she has been constantly bashing on me saying that I don’t attempt to understand her but I read/watch/research every day on how to communicate effectively.
It’s been an ongoing issue where I don’t feel heard or understood in the relationship / I don’t feel loved with her “obsession” which isn’t really love and you can tell. She doesn’t care about my school, or anything in my life of that matter as long as im not with a girl (she doesn’t allow it). She has stayed out at parties until 5am (got into a drunk guys car), purchases weed with money she doesn’t have, dropped out, and has been doing nothing. She threatens me with suicide for any inconvenience and tells me if I leave she will kill herself. She is extremely self centered and has shown psychopathic traits including plans to murder random people.
After reading a lot knowing that she probably won’t change anytime soon although I love her I want to be done. She’s put a toll on my mental health and has also gotten me admitted for old text messages I sent when I was mad about work during an argument. In result I can no longer join the army (a big goal of mine). I just don’t know how I’m going to tell her family and her.

Me and my partner had kept our relationship secret from his JW parents after he left home. We’ve been living together for almost three years now and the truth was spilled to his parents. (Because his brother is very sick and we went down there to visit him. They live in a different state)
To make things short I met his parents and stayed at their place for a week. His parents know I’m not a witness but they didn’t mention anything to do with their beliefs. However I could see it all over their house. (Wifi name, car number plate, pictures of Armageddon and paradise on the walls, and so forth) it actually went really well, they were kind and accommodating. until the last day.
Their dad sat us down and said “so, what’s your plan? Are you getting married?” I was shocked at how straight he was with it. It’s hard to remember exactly how the conversation was but this was pretty much the main points his father told me:

1. “The order of authority is women below men, and men below god.” “If you guys have differing believes and can’t decide on something, just let the man decide for you because he is above you therefore his word is more trustable” “the man should be the head of the family and all responsibility will go on him” He then started telling me that this was “all for you” because it means that life would “be easier for me” if I just accept this and let the men decide while I “lay back.”

He told me this straight to my face as if he was teaching me undeniable facts. I was shocked. The way I view marriage is a SHARED responsibility. being EQUAL.

1. “ if you guys get married, there is two paths you can go down. The extremely bumpy and messy path, or the smooth and easy path.” (If I join the religion.)
   
2. He told me that they don’t hate me, it’s just I grew up in “unfortunate influences”. His dad told me that they “love me” and now I can learn the ways of the truth. He said I have time to learn and decide and proceeded to download the JW library on my iPad, handed me one of the JW bibles and a little book for newcomers to read. I didn’t really have much to say at all during this. It felt like I didn’t have a choice. Before we left the dad kept urging my and my partner to make a “plan” for our future. He also told me that I should study the religion but I have to make it quick because we are in the last days.
   

Even after we left, his father rang and he actually booked tickets for me and my partner to go to bethel. I didn’t even have a choice. He’s getting my partner to watch the zoom meetings again too. (My partner joins the meetings but doesn’t actually watch it)
I made it clear to my partner that I will NEVER join and he’s okay with that. He isn’t sure if he wants to keep believing in it either. The dad recently came up with a “solution if I never join the truth” and it’s that if me and my partner get married soon, because then that would make it okay if we sleep in the same bed and stuff like that so we aren’t sinning anymore. Their dad said we can get married even if I’m not a witness but they won’t be able to attend the marriage. The thing is I don’t want to get married this early, I’d much rather mid 20s. My partner is fine with that. But I still feel really unsure about the dad, I don’t trust him and I feel like he’s planning something or not telling us something. He’s done a lot of things in the past that gives me reason not to trust him so I don’t know how I feel about any of this.

I moved back home around four years ago and haven't seen two particular friends for two years. We keep in touch sporadically to ask how we are doing but that's it. Recently, one of the friends reached out and asked if we wanted to go on vacation this year. I planned on working the whole summer since I go to college so I told them that I'd rather stay at home and work bc I need the money.
Later, they came up with the idea to visit me. Since I live in a capital in Europe, there are a few capitals nearby (lets say capital X and capital Y) that they haven't seen so they thought about visiting them as well. I agreed and said that I might be able to join them over the weekend. Due to time issues I could only join one of the capitals they wanted to see (I'm free on the weekends). Just to be clear: the plan was to come visit me on the weekdays and leave for the weekend to visit another city.
I was starting to think that it might not be a good idea because I work in childcare and have to get up at 5 am everyday to get to my job. I would wake them up and they would have to leave the apartment as well, since I have only one pair of keys and don't feel comfortable giving them my keys. I also want to lock the door (not only close it) because I live in a rough neighborhood. My apartment is very small, so I would have to get an extra mattress. I would have to get it from my mother, who lives an hour away from my place which makes it harder because I would need a car that I don't have. Then I find out that one of them already bought the plane ticket so now I am stressing out. After thinking about other possibilities, I decide to tell them that an Airbnb would be a better fit for them. They seem a bit mad, but after explaining my reasons (getting up at 5 am, keys, rough neighborhood, no mattress) they agree and say that it's fine. Just for context: they come from a richer country and I am pretty sure that they have more money than me: e.g. they live in large apartments, travel during the year, fairytale family etc...
Some time ago, they start to tell me that they didn't plan for these expenses and if I am sure that they can't sleep at my place. They ask if they can sleep on the couch in the living room; I tell them that I don't have a couch nor a living room. They tell me that they don't want to spend an extra 100 bucks, even though I showed them cheap airbnbs that were under 100. I am confused because I know for a fact that one of them just came back from a vacation with a bunch of friends, where they lived in a large villa including a sea view. So an extra 60-100 EUR shouldn't be an issue?
I ask them if they have decided which other capital they want to see, they tell me they will go with me to capital X. I ask them why they don't want to go to capital Y, they tell me they will, but with another friend right after... It feels like they just want a free accommodation. Maybe I am wrong, though? Advice much appreciated!

I am so sad since this is the first year I cannot attend Phoenix Comicon since 2014. I have been out of work for awhile now because of an injury. I got my tax money a few weeks ago but I spent it on bills and a few birthday gifts to myself. Last year I worked there and got my family (parents, and brother and sister) in for free! It was their first time attending last year and they all loved it! I was hoping to reprise the magic again this year. I did the application thing back in March but for some reason they did not contact me like at all. SO strange. I assume they just did not get to my application this time around. They get like hundreds of those. I am so upset though, its like there is a huge party down the street from me and I am missing it!! I had my tax money a few weeks ago too I could have bought us all tickets!!! I wanted to cosplay with my family again and attend some more panels and take numerous pictures!! Makes me sad. I did briefly think to ask my mom to pay for tickets but I dont think she would go for it as it would be 300 dollars for everyone. I told my sister and she was like "oh thats okay, its fine". Why did they not contact me?? I do not know. I am just sad.
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PS I guess its not big deal, and I will be there next year hell or high water. I was also planning on going to Salt Lake Comicon for the first time this year in September, so there is that to look forward to.