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I have a friend with whom I have worked in the same company for 1 year. And this friend is too clingy. When I'm at work and I talk to people other than her, she gets upset. I have a 30 minute break at work and sometimes I decide to be with other work colleagues and she starts bombarding me with calls to join her. And she calls me on the phone several times every day and when I don't answer because I have a life, she gets upset. Every morning very early, she sends me messages and I start to feel too overwhelmed. When she calls me to go out and I say I don't want to, she forces me to go out by harassing me. One day, she had a date with a man and very late in the evening, she called me to tell me how it happened and told me that she "almost came to my house" without warning to tell me about it" while 'it was at night. I'm really tired of her. I've never had a day where she didn't call me. Plus, I'm starting to no longer enjoy our friendship because she's the type of person who criticizes everyone, says insults all the time and that's everything I don't want to become. Once, she hit me “for fun” and I was in pain and she was laughing. I told her to stop but sometimes she starts hitting me again. I do not know what to do. I get messages all the time. One day I told her a "secret" and she repeated it to some people. I'm tired.... What should I do?

2023 U.S. Election Thread I’ll post results here as they come in

This year the queen of pop Heidi Montag finally got her recognition for her iconic debut album 'Superficial'. i'll do it got embraced by TikTok and surpassed 30 million streams on spotify this week and has stable daily streams for months now. She has 1.2m monthly listeners despite not releasing an album since Gaga bullied her out of the music scene in 2009. And on top of all this she is pregnant and still happily married after all these years with a beautiful family. ATRL told me Heidi was a flop and a fad but It seems Heidi just stays winning, why?

Help girlies! I was on me way to the gym and my car is making like a “ratatatatatatatata” sound on startup and doesn’t really start and all the little dashboard emojis are lit. I booked one of those at home repair people (hope they send someone hot) but just want to know how much is all this gonna cost.

if she'd be cheeky with it... do you have any other ideas?

Does it ever feel like the past is an inescapable ghost looming over your entire life? Like your reputation is stained in the eyes of your family or community and you can never make up for it?

Which of these industries must be stopped?

West Side Story and The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes star Josh Andrés Rivera has been cast to play Aaron Hernandez in the new American Sports Story. It will examine the “rise and fall” of Hernandez, including looking into his identity, his family, his career, his death and his legacy. Hernandez was a tight end for the New England Patriots of the NFL before he was convicted for murder. He ultimately took his own life in prison in 2017. “American Sports Story” was originally ordered at FX back in August 2021. It is designed to be a scripted anthological limited series focusing on a prominent event and/or figure in the sports world, but seen through today’s lens and told through multiple perspectives. The first season is based on the podcast “Gladiator: Aaron Hernandez and Football Inc” from the Boston Globe and Wondery. https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/american-sports-story-fx-cast-josh-andres-rivera-aaron-hernandez-1235779672/amp/

Have you ever been scammed ? How ?

I had the privilege that my childhood was quite perfect, dreamy, and very Disney-esque Everything was fun and things were dope in every sense, and the world was seen through rose-colored glasses. When I was 11-12 years old, my father betrayed my mother with another woman and started to hate us deepy everyday. I also entered a new school with rich evil entitled bullies and it was hell. Wish i got into the one with classy-kind ones instead. That was the moment when I began to see the world in a darker way. Today im happy but yes....that was a life-changing situation Does anyone here have a moment like that? A pivotal moment in their life where they feel like they somehow buried a part of themselves and their outlook of the world totally changed? it can be from childhood,teenhood or young adulthood like britney with the justin timberlake breakup-abortion When was it? when was your Turning Point? are you still innocent?

who do you not want her to collaborate with?

I am not sure if I am happy, but what I know for sure is that I'm not in a dark hole anymore. However, I do enjoy learning and creating new things. I also enjoy helping people, and I am satisfied when I am able to complete a task successfully. In a sense, I am happy because I am able to fulfill my daily purpose, no matter how small it may seem. Right now, I am content with my existence, I feel peaceful and have a hopeful view of my future.

Which one would you delete from this world ? You can only delete ONE thing. - Homophobia - Racism - Perverts (this concerns people who are on lpsg and pay for OF too) - Cancer - HIV What would you choose to delete of this world ?

ROLLING STONE: HBO Bosses Used ‘Secret’ Fake Accounts to Troll TV Critics Bloys — who was named HBO’s CEO and chairman in October 2022 — was irked by a tweet from Vulture TV critic Kathryn VanArendonk, who had some thoughts about Perry Mason, HBO’s series starring Matthew Rhys as a private detective turned defense attorney in 1930s Los Angeles. Bloys was annoyed, according to text messages reviewed by Rolling Stone, and sent VanArendonk’s tweet to Kathleen McCaffrey, HBO’s senior vice president of drama programming. “Maybe a Twitter user should tweet that that’s a pretty blithe response to what soldiers legitimately go through on [the] battlefield,” he texted. “Do you have a secret handle? Couldn’t we say especially given that it’s D-Day to dismiss a soldier’s experience like that seems pretty disrespectful … this must be answered!” Bloys was serious. “Who can go on a mission,” he asked McCaffrey, according to the messages, adding that they needed to find a “mole” at “arms length” from the HBO executive team. “We just need a random to make the point and make her feel bad.” Eventually, Bloys landed on a rebuttal to VanArendonk, according to the messages: “A somewhat elitist take. Is there anything more traumatic for men (and now women) than fighting in a war. Sorry if that seems too convenient for you.” The exchange was one of at least six instances between June 2020 and April 2021 in which Bloys and McCaffrey discussed using what they called a “secret army” to fire back at several TV critics on Twitter (now known as X) as well as anonymous commenters on articles about HBO programming, according to text exchanges reviewed by Rolling Stone. In this case, the two decided not to hit back at VanArendonk online. But in numerous instances, the HBO execs did just that, trolling the television critics with snarky responses from a fake Twitter account — and dropping pro-HBO comments on trade publication stories. VARIETY: HBO Boss Casey Bloys Apologizes for Using Fake Twitter Accounts to Troll TV Critics: ‘Dumb Idea’ HBO and Max CEO and chairman Casey Bloys apologized to TV critics Thursday for using fake Twitter accounts to respond to negative reviews of HBO series, following a Wednesday report that revealed Bloys’ past behavior. “For those of you who know me, you know that I am a programming executive very, very passionate about the shows that we decide to do. And the people who do them and the people who work on them,” Bloys said Thursday morning at the start of a presentation at HBO’s New York headquarters, an event to promote HBO and Max’s upcoming slate of programming, which has been planned since Oct. 16. “I want the shows to be great. I want people to love them. I want you all to love them. It’s very important to me what you all think of the shows. When you think about that, and then think of 2020 and 2021, I’m working from home and doing an unhealthy amount of scrolling through Twitter. And I come up with a very, very dumb idea to vent my frustration.” Bloys continued: “Obviously, six tweets over a year and a half is not very effective. But I do apologize to the people who were mentioned in the leaked emails, texts. Obviously, nobody wants to be part of a story that they have nothing to do with. But also, as many of you know, I have progressed over the past couple of years to using DMs. So now, when I take issue with something in a review, or take issue with something I see, many of you are gracious enough to engage with me in a back and forth and I think that is a probably a much healthier way to go about this. But we’ll talk more about that, and you guys can ask me anything you want in the Q&A. I just wanted to put that out there.” Though not included in the lawsuit itself, Rolling Stone referenced alleged 2020 and 2021 text messages between Bloys and SVP of drama programming Kathleen McCaffrey. In the alleged text exchanges, Bloys and McCaffrey repeatedly discussed replying to critics who spoke negatively about HBO series, including “Perry Mason” and “Mare of Easttown,” by using fake Twitter accounts. Rolling Stone says these text messages, provided by Temori, were reviewed and verified via their metadata. Also mentioned in Temori’s lawsuit are McCaffrey, HBO head of drama Francesca Orsi, Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye and two producers on his now-canceled HBO drama “The Idol.” Temori alleges that he was mistreated on the set of that series once he became a scripted coordinator on the project in 2021, a position he was moved to from his executive assistant role.

at school, at work, with your family... have your had your reputation era yet?

What do you think the biggest challenges and opportunities facing humanity in the next 50 years will be?

Songs on music charts such as the Billboard Hot 100 Movies at the box office (week) TV shows in the Nielsen ratings Books on bestseller lists Video games in sales charts Podcasts on download charts Websites in terms of traffic Social media posts in terms of engagement Media personalities in terms of popularity and influence also, Here are some more examples of specific achievements in media that they could have gone #1 for: Most streamed song on Spotify in a day Best-selling video game of all time Most-watched TV show finale Highest-grossing movie of the year Most-followed person on Instagram Most-retweeted tweet Most-liked YouTube video

Granted, there's a HUGE problem among str8s when it comes to leering/ogling - more specifically creepy str8 guys doing it towards woman more often than not - but I feel like this isn't nearly called out enough amongst gays. I've learned to ignore this when I have to deal with annoying creeper gay/bi guys (who seem to get younger & younger these days) and now, I actually make a sport out of ignoring the ENTIRETY out of an incubus ass ***** who insists on eying me for what feels like eternity because they know their ass is going home to their same, beat up dildo & never my piece Does anyone else notice this? And does this affect you or bother you? Discuss.

When do you put your Christmas Tree up? Are you in the Christmas spirit?

VARIETY: Crisis at Marvel: Jonathan Majors Back-Up Plans, ‘The Marvels’ Reshoots, Reviving Original Avengers and More Issues Revealed This past September, a group of Marvel creatives, including studio chief Kevin Feige, assembled in Palm Springs for the studio’s annual retreat. Most years, the vibe would have been confident — even cocky — given how the premier superhero brand, owned by Disney since 2009, has remade the entertainment business in its image. But this occasion was angst-ridden — everyone at Marvel was reeling from a series of disappointments on-screen, a legal scandal involving one of its biggest stars and questions about the viability of the studio’s ambitious strategy to extend the brand beyond movies into streaming. At the gathering in Palm Springs, executives discussed backup plans, including pivoting to another comic book adversary, like Dr. Doom. But making any shift would carry its own headaches: Majors was already a big presence in the MCU, including as the scene-stealing antagonist in February’s “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.” And he has been positioned as the franchise’s next big thing in this season of “Loki” — particularly in the finale, which airs on Nov. 9 and sets up Kang as the titular star of a fourth “Avengers” film in 2026. “The Marvels,” which opens in theaters on Nov. 10, will struggle to get the ball past the infield, at least by Marvel’s outsized standards. The movie, which cost $250 million and sees Brie Larson reprising her role as Captain Marvel, is tracking to open to $75 million-$80 million — far below the $185 million “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” took in domestically in its debut weekend last year. But instead of seamlessly building on the success of “Captain Marvel,” this move resulted in four weeks of reshoots to bring coherence to a tangled storyline. Then eyebrows were raised again when DaCosta began working on another film while “The Marvels” was still in postproduction. Disney’s top brass, including newly returned CEO Bob Iger, was said to be apoplectic about Marvel’s VFX troubles. One month after the “Quantumania” premiere debacle, the guillotine fell on Victoria Alonso, who oversaw the studio’s physical production, postproduction, VFX and animation. Insiders say Disney was incensed that quality control on its Marvel productions was plummeting, particularly on the ever-expanding TV front. The VFX logjam had been evident for some time, with some final effects for such Disney+ series as “WandaVision” and “She-Hulk: Attorney at Law” inserted after their streaming debuts. But some internal sources suggest Alonso was a scapegoat and point to the “She-Hulk” VFX issues as a symptom of a deeper rot — namely a lack of oversight on script development. In the original arc of “She-Hulk,” a flashback of star Tatiana Maslany’s transformation into her Hulk character didn’t take place until Episode 8, the penultimate episode. But after Marvel’s brain trust watched footage, it realized the scene needed to happen in the pilot episode so that audiences could see more of the character’s backstory early. That meant that the VFX team was tasked with fixing the mess in postproduction. “The so-called bad VFX we see was because of half-baked scripts,” says one person involved with “She-Hulk.” “That is not Victoria. That is Kevin. And even above Kevin. Those issues should be addressed in preproduction. The timeline is not allowing the Marvel executives to sit with the material.” All the while, Marvel was bleeding money, with a single episode of “She-Hulk” costing some $25 million, dwarfing the budget of a final-season episode of HBO’s “Game of Thrones, ” but without a similar Zeitgeist bang. As public criticism mounts, Feige is pulling the plug on scripts and projects that aren’t working. Case in point: the “Blade” reboot. But the project has gone through at least five writers, two directors and one shutdown six weeks before production. One person familiar with the script permutations says the story at one point morphed into a narrative led by women and filled with life lessons. Blade was relegated to the fourth lead, a bizarre idea considering that the studio had two-time Oscar winner Ali on board. Amid reports that Ali was ready to exit over script issues, Feige went back to the drawing board and hired Michael Green, the Oscar-nominated writer of “Logan,” to start anew. Speculation around town is that the studio is looking to make the film, now slated for 2025, on a budget of less than $100 million — a deviation from Marvel’s big-spending strategy. With Iger publicly acknowledging the downside of a Marvel TV glut that “diluted focus and attention,” the keepers of the comic book empire are considering some dramatic moves. Sources say there have been talks to bring back the original gang for an “Avengers” movie. This would include reviving Robert Downey Jr.’s Iron Man and Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow, both of whom were killed off in “Endgame.” When the “Quantumania” actor was arrested in March, Disney executives insisted that they could afford to play a wait-and-see game, given that “Avengers: The Kang Dynasty” wasn’t expected to begin shooting until early 2024. But then Majors was dropped in quick succession by his publicists and managers. (He remains a client at WME — the agency where he landed after CAA parted ways with him, pre-arrest, for his “brutal conduct” toward staff, says one source. CAA declined to comment.) In April, other alleged domestic violence victims of Majors began cooperating with the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. Then, ahead of a key hearing in October, media outlets including Variety obtained a court filing that referenced a police incident in London involving Majors that led his ex-girlfriend to seek medical attention. Making matters even stickier, the ex-girlfriend also worked on “Quantumania” as a movement coach, and the London incident took place while Majors was shooting Season 2 of “Loki.” On Oct. 25, a New York judge denied Majors’ motion to dismiss the case, which ensures that the actor will stand trial in late November. His legal team is attempting to keep some material in the case sealed. A studio source notes that regardless of the actor’s legal issues, Marvel already had considered moving away from a Majors-led phase because of the box office performance of “Quantumania,” which will struggle to make a profit. “It gave people pause given that ‘Quantumania’ didn’t exactly land,” the source says. (On Oct. 27, Disney removed another Majors film, Searchlight’s “Magazine Dreams,” from the release calendar.) Recasting Majors is also an option, as Feige did when he replaced Terrence Howard in “Iron Man 2” with Don Cheadle. Still, there was one bright spot in 2023: “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3,” which became Marvel’s biggest draw of the year with $845 million worldwide. The fact that it was directed by James Gunn, the guy now running rival DC Studios, was lost on no one. “With Marvel, it used to be as close to a guarantee as you could get,” says Paul Dergarabedian, a box office analyst at Comscore. “So, going all in on the budgets made sense. ‘Guardians 3’ was a bit overlooked in how successful it was. But that had James Gunn and Chris Pratt, and I think star power is becoming more important. Then there was ‘Quantummania’ with $476 million. Anything under a half billion dollars is viewed as a disappointment. And these overreaching expectations are a result of so much success over the years.”

What movie/TV shows that share a similar premise, or theme(s) of one of your faves, essentially replaced that movie/show & is now your new fave? I'll just say that first & foremost, Black Mirror pretty much CLEARED all dystopian-futuristic thrillers for me. Also, when Glee came out in, it essentially was a more fleshed out & PG High School Musical to me. Another example (although both not necessarily my faves) but Euphoria single-handedly ANNILATED 13 Reasons Why as the go-to edgy "messed up Gen Z high schoolers" show. Maze Runner > Hunger Games for YA dystopian films.

summary: he argues that listening to music while doing other tasks (work, eating, commute, etc.) can distract us and prevent us from being present during those tasks, hindering our ability to cognitively and emotionally experiencing those parts of life to the fullest. he argues that instead we should treat listening to music as a task itself, taking time during the day to fully experience the music you intend to enjoy. atrl, do you agree? is the overconsumption (im looking at your last.fm scrobbles) of music detrimental to your mental health? does this overindulgence in music create the toxic stan culture we all seem to want to get away from? if so, maybe listening to less music (and being more present in life's fleeting moments) could help you overcome the stan mentality that is haunting you... discuss!

Inspired by the do you tip your food delivery drivers thread, do you tip your drivers for transportation?

Are you ?

her least successful album debuted with 'only' 329.000 units...