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My birthday was May 27! Happy birthday if it’s your birthday Eric!

I know that you're hiding things, using gentle words to shelter me... Your words were like a dream... But dreams could never fool me.... Not that easily... I acted so distance then, didn't say goodbye before you left... But i was listening... you'll fight your battles far from me... Far too easily...
"save your tears cause ill come back" I could hear that you whispered as you walked through that door... But still i swore to hide the pain when i turn back the pages...
Shouting might have been the answer... What if i cried my eyes out and begged you not to depart?
But now im not afraid to say whats in my heart...
1000 words, call out through the ages, they'll fly to you even though i can't see... I know they're reaching you... suspended on silver wings
Oh 1000 words... 1000 embraces.... will cradle you making all of your weary days seem far away...
They'll hold you forever...
I think this song perfectly describes my feelings toward the Final Fantasy series. Its a series i grew up with, a series ive loved and cherished since i was a kid. It was my escape from the real world and it comforted me when i was in pain. I did not have the greatest child hood, and Final Fantasy was my home. It didn't matter the installment... Every installment to me delivered an unforgettable story, with characters i fell in love with. The journey to save the world, the challenge to real world concepts in every game, the love stories... The fantasy. The experiences i have had with this franchise are akin to a first love that i will never forget.
But like a first love, it rarely works out. Like a fleeting love in the summer, the summer must come to an end. And that is where i am in this relationship. Its time to let it go. While it may seem strange for me to talk about a game in this manner, i feel it perfectly describes my connection with it. And ironically, the song that describes it best is from Square themselves.
I have watched her grow and blossom into a beautiful woman. I have befen with her through every adventure. I have enjoyed every minute, no, every second ive had with her. But somewhere in the journey, she changed. And its so difficult to understand the change because even though i love her with all my heart, i cannot accept her changes. She seems like a completely different person; even someone i have never known. How can this be? How could she have changed so much after 2 1/2 decades that i don't know her anymore?
Whats worse is she sees she has changed. But she holds my hand and whispers she still loves me. And that she still wants to be with me. I tremble as she delivers a pale, but heartfelt smile. I decide to have faith in her, to believe that its true; but her actions tell me something different. What can i do? I am lost... Do i stay with her? Do i continue to be her guardian? Or do i disappear? Do i whistle and hope she comes running? Or do i fade away? I don't know anymore. But i know i do want her to be happy. And whoever it is that she finds who loves her changes, i do want them to experience the amazing journey i had with her. She should be cherished, she deserves the utmost care...
So i have come to the sad conclusion, the end of my story. I must find a way to let her go. We no longer have that connection that tied us together. We have become two very different people. We want different things now, and thats okay. I will always love her but i can't be with her anymore.
So now i will say goodbye, my love... my dearest. Thank you for the last 25 years.
Send me, Yuna... Its time.

The most important piece of my life is still missing: you. You're out there somewhere, and I'm ready to get lost in your eyes, to hold you when life is hard or even when everything's good. I want to melt with you in an outpouring of passion and intimacy. Cheesy as it may sound, I miss you, even though we've never met.
I'm searching long and hard (it might be a double entendre 😏) for my soul mate, who shares most of my interests below, and who's also goofy, likes to playfully insult each other, and also believes in open and honest communication. Naturally, if we can trust each other fully and not hold back what we really think, I believe we can work out any problems when they arise. 💛
• I'm a gamer, car guy, and maybe one day, a musician too. I enjoy anime, nature, going on little adventures, traveling... I wanna see the world with my significant other before all the beautiful sights are gone.
• I want to dance with you. In the living room, bedroom, back yard, in the park, almost anywhere. I enjoy doing romantic things and expressing my love. I love deep conversations that distract us from the passing of time.
• I'm a dog person because my allergies chose to target cats for whatever reason, so there's that. 😅
• I don't have children currently, but they're in my plans for the future. Oh, and I'm monogamous, so you're the only one getting my romance, intimacy, passion, and love.
• I'm really hoping to find someone who's also into dirty humor and has mutual...interests 😏 so we have better compatibility in the bedroom (and sometimes in public too). 👉👈
• Specs for those who would like them: - 6 feet tall (about 183 cm). - 240 lbs and dropping (about 109 kg). ~ My figure is very dad-bod, but apparently it comes with a nice ass (so I'm told). ~ This is the most I've ever weighed, and I'm not happy with it. I'm targeting somewhere around 170 lbs (about 77 kg). - Brunette, kept short so I don't have to use any kind of gel/pomade/cream. - Blue eyes. - Caucasian.
• I have learned the hard way that I do have a type. I have dated outside that type before, and it only led to hurt feelings, so I don't want to repeat that. That being said, my type is Caucasian or Asian ranging from petite to average body type. You don't have to love going to the gym, don't worry. 😅 I apologize if my preferences differ from who you are. That does not mean I dislike you. You're probably an amazing person! I have simply learned that I'm more attracted to certain people. You're all beautiful people, regardless! Please love yourself! 💛
Chat with ya soon! 😁 !unlock

Cast: Me (f 23) Brother (m 21) Sister (f 19) Grandma (f 70) Grandpa (m 68)
Situation: My siblings and I were adopted and raised by our paternal grandparents. Me and them have never gotten along. Things got very bad 7 to 4 years ago.
Tensions between me and my grandparents have simmered down since I moved out 5 years ago. Grandparents feel they don’t have a lot of time left and want to rekindle our relationship and “get close again”.
Things have drastically changed since I moved out: grandma and grandpa are claiming to be different people now. I sure am a different person too. They really hurt me in the past and I can’t trust them not to do it again, but my sister who still lives with them claims they have changed for the better.
A HUGE bonus and honestly the biggest reason I am even bothering to consider this situation is that I would rekindle and reconnect to my little sister, who comes as a package deal with my grandparents. I miss her so much.
Option 1: Give them a second chance
Fully commit, open myself up, be the real me, discuss and heal past issues and determine what we want our relationship to look like moving forward. If they really haven’t changed, this could mean opening up myself to a new wave of drama, arguments, manipulation, yelling, and trying to control me. True love is all about being vulnerable with the other person and I don’t know if I am capable of that with them because of how much they hurt me. Plus, I still harbor a lot of pent up anger and emotion regarding how I was treated.
Option 2: Pretend love them and “half” commit
Do, say, and act the part - say I love you at the end of all calls. Be nice but reserved. Keep my heart closed and don’t share the real me. I wouldn’t love them, but I wouldn’t let them know that.
I would give them more of what they want - a relationship. They wouldn’t know just how one sided it would be. I truly believe I can play the part well for many years if needed. Things might get tricky when I have kids, tho?
Option 3: keep it how it is and more or less cut it off
Right now we are more or less on “see you at family events” terms with a phone call thrown in for birthdays and Mother’s Day. I see their “public” face and they keep all of their issues to themselves and I keep all of mine to myself. In the last 3 years there have been next to no arguments, yelling, manipulating, or grabs for control over me. I’ve never been happier and I’ve started to no longer get anxiety attacks when I get a call or text from them. I so badly want to keep it this way. But they hate it and it apparently hurts them a lot.
Other important information: 1) They were so outright emotionally abusive and manipulative to the point I wished they would just hit us instead. Very controlling and strict parents.
2) When things “took a huge downward turn” and our relationship was at its worst, my grandma struggled very hard with having an independent, very emotional teenager (me) and the sudden death of her son/my dad. Since it’s been over 6 years there’s a very good chance she’s fully healed and she has changed since these issues are no longer as relevant.
3) my sister has hinted that my grandparents will never apologize for how they raised us and thus how they treated us (which is where ALL my beef with them is at). “They did their best and they are not sorry for that”. This doesn’t sit well with me and I think plays a big part in my struggle with this issue.
4) all of the things they did to support me they end up holding over my head and using as leverage to try to control me. They helped pay for my college and they make sure I don’t forget it. This happened again in our most recent conversation.
5) we are VERY different people. In the past they have been very vocal about their disproval of my views and actions. In the past, they have been very negative, nagging people with always something to complain about and I HATE being around people like that. A part of having a happy life is to surround yourself with happy people and people you like. Their previous selves would DEFINITELY not fit that bill.
FYI / non-relevant information: 1) Biological parents were druggies and our paternal grandparents stepped in once us kids were CPS-ed out of there. Mom died in 2008, a year after we were legally adopted.
2) I have a husband (m 23), moved an hour away, and am slowly living the life I dreamed of. Things are wonderful except for this issue.
3) I decided to start seeing a therapist because I clearly have a lot to work through. First session isn’t for another month.

I (25M) and my GF (29F) have been dating for about 10 months, we met on tinder over a year ago and instantly hit it off. She was a straight up smoke show in my eyes and I couldn’t believe someone as beautiful as her would ever talk to me in a billion years. We quickly realized we had similar interests in sports teams and music and wanted to take things further. We started going out on dates to restaurants, going to sporting events, and pretty soon things started to get serious. Before we met, I had a daughter in a previous relationship. My ex and I got engaged back in December of 2019 and found out we were going to have a daughter in October of 2020. I’ll go into it in another post but my ex is kind of crazy and I’m currently working to afford a lawyer. Backstory aside, before I asked her out my GF was able to meet my daughter and she was ecstatic to be around her! I finally worked up the courage to ask her out in July 2022 and the next few months that followed were full of love and happiness. We went on more dates and I got to know some of her friends pretty well. Even came along with her on her birthday trip to Austin, TX in October! Come around to the beginning of the year, things kind of started to plateau. I noticed she wasn’t having the same energy that she had in the past. But I brushed it off as her work schedule being hectic. She is a nurse and works nights, given that it was also winter we both concluded it was seasonal depression. About a month later she tells me she never has felt this depressed before. I was still coming around once or twice a weekend, having every other weekend being with my daughter. And I was still trying to come up with ideas and places we could go to, but the depression was cutting into her energy no matter what I tried. Fast forward to a week ago. She called me and asked if we could talk. She told me that she wants to take a break for a while, citing her depression worsening and personal issues with her family that I’m aware of but I don’t want to share here. So we talked about it for a couple of hours and decided that we will give the break a try. She pointed out that I do have stuff I need to work on as well if we want to come out of this break and be a stronger and happier couple and bring both of our best sides out in our relationship. What advice could you users of Reddit can offer me so that I can come out of this break with so that I can be a stronger partner for her?

Artist	Album	Count	Days
David Bowie	The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars	7	01,2,19,22,26,301,75
Boston	Boston	7	13,42,58,62,62,62,74
Miles Davis	Kind of Blue	6	01,4,25,31,43,45
Bob Dylan	Blood on the Tracks	6	02,6,12,38,59,66
Led Zeppelin	Led Zeppelin IV	5	01,19,59,60,75
Nirvana	Nevermind	5	01,8,42,53,61
The Cure	Disintegration	5	02,7,38,56,58
Prince	Purple Rain	5	07,16,22,25,29
The Stone Roses	The Stone Roses	5	07,19,31,40,62
AC/DC	Back In Black	5	07,22,25,56,65
Radiohead	In Rainbows	5	09,19,26,31,72
The Beatles	Rubber Soul	4	05,14,19,26
Bob Dylan	The Times They Are A-Changin'	4	05,20,26,54
Bob Dylan	The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan	4	05,23,24,63
The Velvet Underground	The Velvet Underground & Nico	4	05,23,59,62
The Beatles	Abbey Road	4	05,28,31,58
Van Morrison	Astral Weeks	4	05,31,47,63
Joy Division	Unknown Pleasures	4	06,7,15,20
De La Soul	3 Feet High & Rising	4	07,19,26,62
Pixies	Doolittle	4	07,23,26,36
Blind Melon	Blind Melon	4	08,13,35,69
David Bowie	Blackstar	4	10,29,51,74
Pink Floyd	Wish You Were Here	3	01,59,75
The Rolling Stones	Exile on Main Street	3	01,6,31
Bob Dylan	Highway 61 Revisited	3	02,5,26
Bob Dylan	Bringing It All Back Home	3	02,5,5
The Doors	The Doors	3	02,5,62
The Beatles	Revolver	3	05,19,48
The Beatles	The White Album	3	05,25,73
Nick Drake	Five Leaves Left	3	05,29,62
Rush	2112	3	06,59,61
Bruce Springsteen	Born In the USA	3	07,13,57
Violent Femmes	Violent Femmes	3	07,18,62
Rush	Moving Pictures	3	07,19,26
The Beastie Boys	Paul's Boutique	3	07,23,74
Talking Heads	Remain in Light	3	07,26,28
David Bowie	Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)	3	07,29,72
Paul Simon	Graceland	3	07,33,58
R.E.M.	Murmur	3	07,42,62
The Cure	Pornography	3	07,48,52
Guns N' Roses	Appetite for Destruction	3	07,48,62
Stevie Ray Vaughan	Texas Flood	3	07,62,74
Radiohead	The Bends	3	08,56,63
Slowdive	Souvlaki	3	08,56,63
Radiohead	Kid A	3	09,15,53
Tame Impala	Currents	3	10,13,38
The Beatles	Sgt Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band	3	19,23,53
Johnny Cash	American I	3	24,29,65
Bob Dylan	Blonde on Blonde	3	25,27,31
Liz Phair	Exile In Guyville	3	27,33,62
Pulp	This is Hardcore	3	27,43,59
The Pretty Things	SF Sorrow	3	30,55,56
Massive Attack	Mezzanine	3	43,52,72
Queen	Queen ll	3	43,59,63
Kendrick Lamar	good kid, m.A.A.d City	2	01,10
Led Zeppelin	Physical Graffiti	2	01,12
Stevie Wonder	Songs in the Key of Life	2	01,19
David Bowie	Station to Station	2	01,23
Wire	154	2	01,6
Neil Young	Tonight's the Night	2	01,75
The Who	Who's Next	2	01,75
Iron Maiden	The Number of the Beast	2	02,35
David Bowie	Low	2	02,48
The Beatles	White Album	2	02,5
The Rolling Stones	Let It Bleed	2	02,5
Frank Sinatra	In the Wee Small Hours	2	04,52
Buddy Holly	any	2	04,53
The Zombies	Odyssey And Oracle	2	05,19
The Beatles	Magical Mystery Tour	2	05,23
Jimi Hendrix	Are You Experienced?	2	05,62
Led Zeppelin	Led Zeppelin	2	05,62
Jefferson Airplane	Surrealistic Pillow	2	05,63
Led Zeppelin	Led Zeppelin II	2	05,63
The Band	The Band	2	05,63
The Doors	Strange Days	2	05,63
Joni Mitchell	Blue	2	06,25
Pink Floyd	Dark Side Of The Moon	2	06,30
Fleetwood Mac	Rumours	2	06,38
Camel	The Snow Goose	2	06,45
Yes	Relayer	2	06,52
Metallica	Master of Puppets	2	07,19
Rush	Permanent Waves	2	07,24
Pixies	Surfer Rosa	2	07,25
Sonic Youth	Evol	2	07,28
Van Halen	1984	2	07,28
U2	The Joshua Tree	2	07,31
Bruce Springsteen	The River	2	07,36
Sonic Youth	Daydream Nation	2	07,42
Joy Division	Closer	2	07,51
Led Zeppelin	Coda	2	07,51
Lou Reed	New York	2	07,55
Elvis Costello	Spike	2	07,56
The Replacements	Let It Be	2	07,59
Michael Jackson	Thriller	2	07,60
Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballé	Barcelona	2	07,70
Dire Straits	Brothers In Arms	2	07,73
The Raincoats	Odyshape	2	07,75
Pavement	Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain	2	08,13
R.E.M.	Out of Time	2	08,19
My Bloody Valentine	Loveless	2	08,22
Jeff Buckley	Grace	2	08,23
Slint	Spiderland	2	08,28
Radiohead	OK Computer	2	08,31
Blur	13	2	08,38
Soundgarden	Superunknown	2	08,52
Green Day	Dookie	2	08,58
Oasis	Definitely, Maybe	2	08,62
Townes Van Zandt	Roadsongs	2	08,65
Boo Radleys	Giant Steps	2	08,69
The Breeders	Last Splash	2	08,69
Portishead	Dummy	2	08,8
Outkast	Stankonia	2	09,18
The Strokes	Room On Fire	2	09,19
The White Stripes	White Blood Cells	2	09,25
Amy Winehouse	Back to Black	2	09,38
Amy Winehouse	Back to black	2	09,38
Beck	Sea Change	2	09,38
Björk	Vespertine	2	09,39
Vampire Weekend	Vampire Weekend	2	09,62
LCD Soundsystem	Sound of Silver	2	09,74
The Strokes	Is This It?	2	09,9
Jason Isbell	Southeastern	2	10,20
Frightened Rabbit	Pedestrian Verse	2	10,28
Robyn	Body Talk	2	10,41
Tyler Childers	Purgatory	2	10,55
Sturgill Simpson	A Sailors Guide to Earth	2	10,70
Dave Van Ronk	Folksinger	2	12,14
The Moody Blues	Seventh Sojourn	2	12,14
Ash	Meltdown	2	13,24
Yo La Tengo	I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One	2	14,70
Various Artists	I am Sam	2	16,21
Various Artists	Singles	2	16,37
They Might Be Giants	Flood	2	18,19
Sam Cooke	Live at The Harlem Square Club	2	19,22
John Mellencamp	Dance Naked	2	19,30
Mad Season	Above	2	20,47
Idaho	Alas	2	20,56
Black Sabbath	Paranoid	2	22,52
Def Leppard	Hysteria	2	22,59
Soundgarden	Badmotorfinger	2	22,74
Bob Dylan	Another Side of Bob Dylan	2	23,24
Steely Dan	Aja	2	23,58
Creedence Clearwater Revival	Cosmo's Factory	2	23,74
The Prodigy	Music for the Jilted Generation	2	24,41
Tricky	Maxinquaye	2	24,52
Ash	1977	2	24,62
Black Sabbath	Black Sabbath	2	25,62
The Cars	Candy-O	2	26,63
Judas Priest	Painkiller	2	26,65
Cheap Trick	Cheap Trick	2	27,62
Ramones	Ramones	2	29,33
John Lennon	John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band	2	29,60
Bad Omens	Bad Omens	2	32,72
The Prodigy	Fat of the Land	2	34,41
Placebo	Without You I'm nothing	2	34,59
The Cure	Seventeen Seconds	2	35,38
Kansas	Kansas	2	35,62
Alice Cooper	Schools Out	2	36,61
Queen	A Night at the Opera	2	36,61
Elvis Costello and The Attractions	This Year's Model	2	36,63
Van Morrison	Moondance	2	39,43
Deee-Lite	World Clique	2	41,69
Teenage Fanclub	Howdy	2	42,75
Jeff Beck	Blow by Blow	2	43,45
Louis Armstrong	Greatest Hits	2	43,46
Ween	White Pepper	2	43,72
Neil Young with Pearl Jam	Mirror Ball	2	44,48
Idlewild	The Remote Part	2	47,55
Lou Reed	Transformer	2	48,65
Queen	Queen	2	51,61
Rage Against the Machine	Rage Against the Machine	2	54,62
Metallica	Kill 'em All	2	59,62
Nas	Illmatic	2	59,74
Madonna	Ray of Light	2	60,65
Oasis	(What's the Story) Morning Glory?	2	61,63
Bill Withers	Just As I Am	2	62,75
David Bowie	The Next Day	2	64,65
Iron Maiden	Brave New World	2	64,65
The Who	WHO	2	64,65
Chicago	Chicago 2	1	01
Daft Punk	Random Access Memories	1	01
Faces	Long Player	1	01
Leftfield	Leftism	1	01
Nirvana	Bleach	1	01
Red Hot Chili Peppers	By the Way	1	01
The Decemberists	Castaways and Cutouts	1	01
Wilco	Wilco	1	01
Dead Kennedys	Bedtime For Democracy	1	02
Dire Straits	Dire Straits	1	02
Grateful Dead	American Beauty	1	02
Harvey Danger	Flagpole Sitta	1	02
Joni Mitchell	Court & Spark	1	02
Tori Amos	Scarlet's Walk	1	02
Buddy Holly	The Chirping Crickets	1	04
Charles Mingus	Pithecanthropus Erectus	1	04
Dave Brubeck	Time Out	1	04
Ella & Louis	Ella, Louis w/ Oscar Peterson	1	04
Flatt & Scruggs	Foggy Mountain Jamboree (1957)	1	04
Frank Sinatra	Only the Lonely	1	04
Frank Sinatra	Songs for Swingin Lovers	1	04
John Coltrane	Blue Train	1	04
Johnny Cash	Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar!	1	04
Johnny Cash	Live at Folsom prison	1	04
Marty Robbins	Gunfighter Ballads & Trail Songs	1	04
Moondog	Moondog	1	04
Other Worlds	Other Worlds	1	04
The Atomic Mr. Basie	Count Basie	1	04
Cream	Disraeli Gears	1	05
Ray Charles	Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music (1962)	1	05
The Band	Music from Big Pink	1	05
The Beatles	Rubber Soul, the Capitol version	1	05
The Rolling Stones	Beggars Banquet	1	05
The Velvet Underground	The Velvet Underground	1	05
Them	The Angry Young Them	1	05
Black Sabbath	Master of Reality	1	06
Bruce Springsteen	Darkness on the Edge of Town	1	06
David Bowie	Young Americans	1	06
Meat Loaf	Bat Out Of Hell	1	06
Neil Young	After The Gold Rush	1	06
Simon and Garfunkel	Bridge Over Troubled Water	1	06
U2	Desire	1	06
Van Morrison	It's Too Late to Stop Now (1974)	1	06
Alice Cooper	DaDa	1	07
Bob James	H	1	07
Bruce Springsteen	Nebraska	1	07
David Bowie	Let's Dance	1	07
Def Leppard	Pryomainia	1	07
Dinosaur Jr	Bug	1	07
Dinosaur Jr	You're Living All Over Me	1	07
Husker Du	Zen Arcade	1	07
Iron Maiden	Killers	1	07
John Hiatt	Slow Turning	1	07
Keith Richards	Talk Is Cheap	1	07
Los Lobos	By the Light of the Moon	1	07
My Bloody Valentine	Isn't Anything	1	07
New Order	Substance	1	07
Pete Townshend	Empty Glass	1	07
Peter Gabriel	Security	1	07
Prince	Dirty Mind	1	07
Queen	The Game	1	07
Queen	The Works	1	07
Queensrÿche	Operation: Mindcrime (1988)	1	07
R.E.M.	Document	1	07
Ramones	Pleasant Dreams	1	07
Sonic Youth	Sister	1	07
Talking Heads	Stop Making Sense	1	07
The Beastie Boys	Licensed To Ill	1	07
The Clash	London Calling	1	07
The Dreaming	Kate Bush	1	07
The Jesus and Mary Chain	Psychocandy	1	07
The Kinks	One for the Road	1	07
The Moody Blues	The Other Side of Life	1	07
The Neville Brothers	Live At Tipitina's Volume 1 & 2	1	07
The Police	Outlandos d'Amour	1	07
The Rolling Stones	Tattoo You	1	07
The Smiths	The Queen is Dead	1	07
The Who	Face Dances	1	07
Tom Petty	Full Moon Fever	1	07
A Tribe Called Quest	The Low End Theory	1	08
Alanis Morrisette	Jagged Little Pill	1	08
Beck	Midnite Vultures	1	08
Beck	Odelay	1	08
Björk	Homogenic	1	08
Blur	Parklife	1	08
Dave Matthews Band	Before these Crowded Streets	1	08
Dinosaur Jr	Where You Been	1	08
Eminem	The Slim Shady LP	1	08
Fiona Apple	When The Pawn…	1	08
Garbage	2	1	08
Guided by Voices	Bee Thousand	1	08
Lauryn Hill	Miseducation of Lauryn Hill	1	08
Mazzy Star	So Tonight That I Might See	1	08
Neutral Milk Hotel	In The Aeroplane Over The Sea	1	08
Nine Inch Nails	Downward Spiral	1	08
Nine Inch Nails	The Fragile	1	08
Nirvana	In Utero	1	08
No Doubt	Tragic Kingdom	1	08
P.O.D.	Satellite	1	08
Pavement	Wowee Zowee	1	08
Pearl Jam	Vitalogy	1	08
PJ Harvey	Dry	1	08
Public Enemy	Fear of a Black Planet	1	08
Pulp	Different Class	1	08
Queens of the Stone Age	Queens of the Stone Age	1	08
R.E.M.	Automatic for the People	1	08
Sebadoh	Sebadoh III	1	08
Sonic Youth	Dirty	1	08
Sonic Youth	Washing Machine	1	08
Sublime	40oz to Freedom	1	08
Sublime	Sublime	1	08
The Cranberries	No Need to Argue	1	08
The Flaming Lips	The Soft Bulletin	1	08
The Notorious B.I.G.	Ready to Die	1	08
The Smashing Pumpkins	Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness	1	08
The Smashing Pumpkins	Siamese Dream	1	08
The Verve	Urban Hymns	1	08
Tom Waits	Bone Machine	1	08
Tori Amos	Boys for Pele	1	08
Tori Amos	Little Earthquakes	1	08
Toy Matinee	Toy Matinee	1	08
Travis	The Man Who	1	08
U2	Achtung Baby	1	08
Vic Chesnutt	Little	1	08
Weezer	Pinkerton	1	08
Wu-Tang Clan	Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)	1	08
Animal Collective	Merriweather Post Pavillion	1	09
Arcade Fire	Funeral	1	09
Arctic Monkeys	Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not	1	09
Burial	Untrue	1	09
Daft Punk	Discovery	1	09
Damien Rice	O	1	09
David Bowie	Heathen and Reality	1	09
David Gray	White Ladder	1	09
Deerhunter	Microcastle / Weird Era Cont	1	09
Grizzly Bear	Veckatimest	1	09
Jamie T	Panic Prevention	1	09
Jay-Z	The Black Album	1	09
Joanna Newsom	Ys	1	09
Kanye West	Graduation	1	09
Kanye West	Late Registration	1	09
Kanye West	The College Dropout	1	09
Madvillain	Madvillainy	1	09
Magnetic Fields	69 Love Songs	1	09
Mark Lanegan	Bubblegum	1	09
Mark Ronson	Version	1	09
Modest Mouse	Good News For People Who Love Bad New	1	09
Modest Mouse	The Moon and Antarctica	1	09
Opeth	Blackwater Park	1	09
Queens of the Stone Age	Rated R	1	09
Queens of the Stone Age	Songs for the Deaf	1	09
Radiohead	Amnesiac	1	09
Radiohead	Hail to the Thief	1	09
Sonic Youth	Sonic Nurse	1	09
Spiritualized	Let It Come Down	1	09
Sufjan Stevens	Illinois	1	09
The Flaming Lips	Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots	1	09
The Good The Bad And The Queen	The Good The Bad And The Queen	1	09
The Killers	Hot Fuss	1	09
The Knife	Silent Shout	1	09
The Mars Volta	Deloused in the Crematorium	1	09
The Raconteurs	Broken Boy Soldiers	1	09
The Streets	A Grand Don't Come for Free	1	09
The White Stripes	De Stijl	1	09
The White Stripes	Elephant	1	09
Wilco	YHF	1	09
Alabama Shakes	Boys & Girls	1	10
Arcade Fire	The Suburbs	1	10
Babymetal	Metal Resistance	1	10
Beach House	Bloom	1	10
Cage the Elephant	Unpeeled	1	10
Charles Bradley	No Time for Dreaming	1	10
Deafheaven	Sunbather	1	10
Deap Vally	Femijism	1	10
Deerhunter	Halcyon Digest	1	10
Foo Fighters	Wasting Light	1	10
Foster the People	Torches	1	10
Frank Ocean	Blonde	1	10
Frank Ocean	Channel Orange	1	10
Frost*	Falling Satellites	1	10
Garbage	Not Your Kind of People	1	10
Jamey Johnson	The Guitar Song	1	10
Jamie xx	In Colour	1	10
Joanna Newsom	Have One on Me	1	10
Kacey Musgraves	Golden Hour	1	10
Kacey Musgraves	Pageant Material	1	10
Kanye West	My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy	1	10
Kanye West	Yeezus	1	10
Kayne West	My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy	1	10
Kendrick Lamar	To Pimp a Butterfly	1	10
La Dispute	Wildlife	1	10
Leon Bridges	Good Thing	1	10
Leonard Cohen	You Want it Darker	1	10
Lorde	Pure Heroine	1	10
Marlon Williams	Marlon Williams	1	10
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds	Push the Sky Away	1	10
PJ Harvey	Let England Shake	1	10
Queens of the Stone Age	Like Clockwork	1	10
Sturgill Simpson	Metamodern Sounds in Country Music	1	10
Submarine	Alex Turner	1	10
Swans	To Be Kind	1	10
The Black Keys	Brothers	1	10
Tool	Fear Inoculum	1	10
Twenty One Pilots	Blurryface	1	10
Tyler, The Creator	Igor	1	10
Typhoon	Hunger and Thirst	1	10
Vampire Weekend	Modern Vampires of the City	1	10
Beth Gibbons and Rustin Man	Out of Season	1	12
Genesis	Trick of the Tail	1	12
Lunatic Soul	Through Shaded Woods	1	12
Real Estate	The Main Thing	1	12
Sun Kil Moon	Tiny Cities	1	12
The Fall	Hex Enduction Hour	1	12
Gerry Rafferty	City to City	1	13
Gorillaz	Plastic Beach	1	13
Lana Del Rey	Norman Fucking Rockwell!	1	13
Melophobia	Cage the Elephant	1	13
MGMT	Oracular Spectacular	1	13
Rumours	Fleetwood Mac	1	13
The Beach Boys	Shut Down ll	1	13
Townes Van Zandt	Live At The Old Quarter	1	13
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young	Déjà Vu	1	14
Mark Hollis	Mark Hollis	1	14
Midlake	The Trials of Van Occupanther	1	14
R.E.M.	Reckoning	1	14
Catherine Wheel	Ferment	1	15
Elliott Smith	EitheOr	1	15
Enslaved	newest	1	15
Fleetwood Mac	Bare Trees	1	15
Genesis	Wind & Wuthering	1	15
Manic Street Preachers	Holy Bible	1	15
Aimee Mann	Magnolia	1	16
Curtis Mayfield	Superfly	1	16
Danny Elfman	Edward Scissorhands	1	16
David Bowie	Christiane F. Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo	1	16
Eddie Vedder	Into the Wild	1	16
Glen Hansard, Markéta Irglová and Interference	Once	1	16
John Williams	Star Wars	1	16
Ramin Djawadi	Game of Thrones	1	16
The Bee Gees	Saturday Night Fever	1	16
The Blues Brothers	The Blues Brothers (soundtrack)	1	16
Various Artists	Almost Famous	1	16
Various Artists	American Graffiti	1	16
Various Artists	Big Lebowski	1	16
Various Artists	Dazed and Confused	1	16
Various Artists	Forrest Gump: The Soundtrack	1	16
Various Artists	Garden State	1	16
Various Artists	Goodfellas	1	16
Various Artists	I'm not There	1	16
Various Artists	Last Action Hero	1	16
Various Artists	Natural Born Killers	1	16
Various Artists	O Brother Where Art Thou	1	16
Various Artists	Pulp Fiction	1	16
Various Artists	The Commitments	1	16
Various Artists	The Crow	1	16
Various Artists	The Harder They Come (1972)	1	16
Various Artists	The Matrix (music from the motion picture)	1	16
Various Artists	The Royal Tenenbaums	1	16
Various Artists	Trainspotting	1	16
Wendy Carlos	A Clockwork Orange	1	16
Funkadelic	Maggot Brain	1	17
Girl Talk	Feed The Animals	1	18
Michael Jackson	Off The Wall	1	18
Mothership Connection	Mothership Connection	1	18
Parry Gripp	Parry Gripp Mega-Party	1	18
Pearl Jam	Vs	1	18
Sly and the Family Stone	Stand	1	18
The Brian Jonestown Massacre	Take it From the Man!	1	18
A Tribe Called Quest	People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm	1	19
a-ha	Minor Earth Major Sky	1	19
Carly Rae Jepsen	EMOTION	1	19
Caroline Polacheck	Pang	1	19
Guided by Voices	Alien Lanes	1	19
Lana Del Rey	Lust For Life	1	19
The Beach Boys	Pet Sounds	1	19
The Moody Blues	Nights In White Satin	1	19
Mount Eerie	A Crow Looks At Me	1	20
Red House Painters	Red House Painters	1	20
Cat Power	are all good but the first is the best	1	21
Cleopatra records	Guns N' Roses, Led Zeppelin tributes	1	21
Metallica	Garage Inc	1	21
Ramones	Acid Eaters	1	21
Various Artists	Appetite for Reconstruction	1	21
Various Artists	Bob Dylan 30th Anniversary Celebration	1	21
Various Artists	Chimes of Freedom: The songs of Bob Dylan honoring 50 years of amnesty international	1	21
Various Artists	Hot for Remixes	1	21
Various Artists	I'm Not There Soundtrack	1	21
Various Artists	Kiss my Ass	1	21
Various Artists	The Smiths is Dead	1	21
Various Artists	The Song Remains Remixed	1	21
Aerosmith	Pump	1	22
Bon Jovi	Slippery When Wet	1	22
Butthole Surfers	Locust Abortion Technician	1	22
Cheap Trick	In Color	1	22
Justice	Cross	1	22
Kasabian	Kasabian	1	22
Motorhead	Another Perfect Day	1	22
Motorhead	No Sleep 'Till Hammersmith	1	22
Narrow Head	Moment of Clarity	1	22
Sleep	Dopesmoker	1	22
Tune-Yards	Whokill	1	22
Bob Dylan	John Wesley Harding	1	23
Bootsy's Rubber Band	Ahh...The Name Is Bootsy, Baby!	1	23
Brian Eno	The Shutov Assembly	1	23
George Best	The Wedding Present	1	23
Harry Nilsson	Nilsson Schmilsson	1	23
Jim Croce	I Got A Name	1	23
Jim Croce	You Don't mess around with Jim	1	23
Marian Gold	So Long, Celeste	1	23
Miles Davis	A Tribute to Jack Johnson	1	23
Nick Lowe	Jesus of Cool	1	23
Prince	Prince	1	23
Richard Thompson	Henry the Human Fly	1	23
Sufjan Stevens	Carrie & Lowell	1	23
Tracy Chapman	Tracy Chapman	1	23
Traffic	John Barleycorn Must Die	1	23
Bill Withers	Still Bill	1	24
Bob Dylan	New Morning	1	24
Fugazi	A Steady Diet of Nothing	1	24
Jellyfish	Jellyfish	1	24
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard	Nonagon Infinity	1	24
Līve	The Distance to Here	1	24
Oingo Boingo	any	1	24
Orson	Bright Idea	1	24
Paul Weller	Stanley Road	1	24
Republica	Greatest Hits	1	24
Rishloo	Feathergun	1	24
Wings	Wild Life	1	24
Dave	Psychodrama (blue)	1	25
Elton John	Elton John	1	25
Elton John	Goodbye Yellow Brick Road	1	25
Kate Bush	Kate Bush	1	25
King Crimson	Red	1	25
Konrad Schnitzler	Rot	1	25
Madonna	Madonna	1	25
Mos Def	Black on Both Sides	1	25
Otis Blue	Otis Redding	1	25
R.E.M.	Green	1	25
Rammstein	Rammstein	1	25
Sugar	Copper Blue	1	25
The Cross	The Cross	1	25
Thin Lizzy	Black Rose	1	25
Violet	Violet	1	25
Big Black	Songs About Fucking	1	26
Deep Purple	Machine Head	1	26
Dr John	Gris Gris	1	26
Dr. Dre	The Chronic. '92	1	26
Ian Dury	New Boots and Panties!!	1	26
Neil Young	On The Beach	1	26
Nick Drake	Nick Drake	1	26
Pink Floyd	The Wall	1	26
Rush	Counterparts	1	26
Sigur Ros	Ágætis byrjun	1	26
The Rolling Stones	The Rolling Stones	1	26
Bubblegum	Mark Lanegan	1	27
Cocteau Twins	Head over heels	1	27
Cocteau Twins	Treasure	1	27
Diamonds and Rust	Joan Baez	1	27
Erykah Badu	Live	1	27
Hockey Dad	Dreamin	1	27
Kate Bush	Under the Pink	1	27
Norah Jones	Come Away With Me	1	27
Ringo Starr	Ringo	1	27
Rod Stewart	Every Picture Tells A Story	1	27
Roger Taylor	Happiness?	1	27
Roxy Music	Bryan Ferry	1	27
Seal	Seal 1994	1	27
Estrons	You say I am too Much, I Say You're Not Enough	1	28
Icky Thump	Icky Thump	1	28
New Radicals	Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too	1	28
R.E.M.	New Adventures in Hi-Fi	1	28
Rush	A Farewell to Kings	1	28
The Stone Roses	The Second Coming	1	28
The Who	Quadrophenia	1	28
David Bowie	Hunky Dory	1	29
Dennis Wilson	Pacific Ocean Blue	1	29
Elliott Smith	Roman Candle	1	29
George Harrison	All Things Must Pass	1	29
Gordon Lightfoot	Sundown	1	29
Jeff Buckley	Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk	1	29
Linkin Park	Hybrid Theory	1	29
Linkin Park	Meteora	1	29
Notorious B.I.G	Ready to Die	1	29
Purple Mountains	Purple Mountains	1	29
Roy Buchanan	Live Stock	1	29
Scott Walker	Climate Of Hunter	1	29
Sirtaki	Mango	1	29
Vic Chesnutt	Is the Actor Happy?	1	29
Walter Becker	11 Tracks of Whack	1	29
Blind Melon	Soup	1	30
Efraim and Asthar Shamir	אפרים ואסתר שמיר	1	30
Gomez	Bring it on	1	30
Husker Du	Candy Apple Grey	1	30
Idlewild	100 broken windows	1	30
Jane's Addiction	Strays	1	30
Kaiser Chiefs	Education, Education, Education, & War	1	30
Key Lime Pie	Camper Van Beethoven	1	30
Natasha's Friends	Radio Blah Blah (רדיו בלה בלה של החברים של נטאשה)	1	30
Pink Floyd	Obscured by Clouds	1	30
Steve Miller Band	Fly Like A Eagle	1	30
The Boo Radleys	Giant Steps	1	30
The Comsat Angels	Waiting for a Miracle	1	30
The Coral	Butterfly House	1	30
The God Machine	Scenes From The Second Storey	1	30
The Pogues	Rum Sodomy & the Lash	1	30
The Sound	Jeopardy	1	30
Tim Buckley	Greetings from LA	1	30
Ultimate Spinach	Ultimate Spinach	1	30
Violent Femmes	first album	1	30
Yes	Tales from Topographic Oceans Studio	1	30
Bob Marley	Legend	1	31
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard	Polygondwanaland	1	31
billy woods	Hiding Places (2019)	1	32
Devendra Banhart	Rejoicing in the Hands	1	32
Lake Street Dive	Obviously	1	32
Lily Allen	Alright Still	1	32
Paramore	This Is Why	1	32
The Dining Rooms	Art is a Cat (2020)	1	32
B52s	Cosmic Thing	1	33
Ragged Glory	Ragged Glory	1	33
Red Hot Chili Peppers	Californication	1	33
The Thrills	So Much for the City	1	33
Black	Wonderful Life	1	34
Centro-Matic	Fort Recovery	1	34
Depeche Mode	Delta Machine	1	34
Disintegration	Disintegration	1	34
Fountains of Wayne	Utopia Parkway	1	34
REO Speedwagon	Hi Infidelity	1	34
Suede	Suede	1	34
Craig David	Born to do it	1	35
Fishbone	Truth And Soul	1	35
Jesus Lizard	Liar	1	35
Keane	Hopes and Fears	1	35
Muse	Origin of Symmetry	1	35
Outside	Outside	1	35
Placebo	Meds	1	35
Teenage Fanclub	Bandwagonesque	1	35
Travis Scott	Birds In The Trap Sing McKnight	1	35
Alice Cooper	Billion Dollar Babies	1	36
Depeche Mode	Black Celebration	1	36
ELO	Time	1	36
Elvis Costello and The Attractions	My Aim is True	1	36
Fish	Fish	1	36
Foreigner	4	1	36
High On Fire	Death Is This Communion	1	36
Huey Lewis and the News	Sports	1	36
Joe Walsh	Rocky Mountain Way	1	36
Led Zeppelin	Houses of the Holy	1	36
Madness	The Rise and Fall	1	36
Ocean Colour Scene	Moseley Shoals	1	36
Patti Smith	Horses	1	36
Queens of the Stone Age	Lullabies to Paralyze	1	36
Ratt	Out of the Cellar	1	36
Suede	Dog Man Star	1	36
Texas	Southside	1	36
The Rolling Stones	Some Girls	1	36
Therapy?	Troublegum	1	36
Various Artists	Empire Records	1	37
Various Artists	Godzilla (1998)	1	37
Various Artists	Judgment Night	1	37
Various Artists	Scream 2	1	37
Various Artists	The Revenant	1	37
Bon Iver	For Emma, Forever Ago	1	38
Carole King	Tapestry	1	38
Chris Isaak	Forever Blue	1	38
Frightened Rabbit	The Midnight Organ Fight	1	38
Josh Rouse	Under the Cold Blue Stars	1	38
Neil Young	Zuma	1	38
Richard Marx	Richard Marx	1	38
The Last Post	Love Lost	1	38
Barry White	The Man	1	40
Cannibal Corpse	Eaten Back to Life	1	40
Marvin Gaye	Lets Get it On	1	40
Smoke City	Flying Away	1	40
The Beatles	Yellow Submarine Soundtrack	1	40
Tindersticks	Tindersticks (1995)	1	40
Various Artists	The Morbius soundtrack	1	40
Hed Kandi	Disco Heaven (2002)	1	41
Jamiroquai	Travelling Without Moving	1	41
John Mellencamp	John Mellencamp	1	41
KC & the Sunshine Band	KC & the Sunshine Band	1	41
Surrender	the Chemical Brothers	1	41
The Prodigy	Invaders Must Die	1	41
Underworld	Second Toughest In The Infants	1	41
Allman Brothers Band	At Fillmore East	1	42
John Lennon	Double Fantasy	1	42
The Marshall Mathers LP	Eminem	1	42
Ulver	Perdition City	1	42
Badly Drawn Boy	The Hour of Bewilderbeast	1	43
Bob Marley	Kaya	1	43
Brian Eno	Apollo	1	43
Grant Nicholas	Yorktown Heights	1	43
Grateful Dead	Workingman's Dead	1	43
Jack Johnson	In Between Dreams	1	43
Seal	Best 1991-2004	1	43
The Levellers	Levelling the Land	1	43
Tom Petty	Wildflowers	1	43
Bongo Fury	Bongo Fury	1	44
Brian Eno & John Cale	Wrong Way Up	1	44
Isobel Campbell	first album with Mark Lanegan	1	44
James Yorkston, Nina Person and the Second Hand Orchestra	The Great White Sea Eagle	1	44
John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman	John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman	1	44
Linkin Park / Jay Z	Collision Course	1	44
Robert Plant & Alison Kraus	two albums are so great	1	44
Traveling Wilburys	Traveling Wilburys	1	44
Air	PRemiers Symptômes	1	45
Booker T	Any of the 60s albums	1	45
Brian Eno	Neuroli	1	45
Esquivel	Caberet Manana	1	45
Frank Zappa	Guitar	1	45
Geneva	Russian Circles	1	45
Godspeed You! Black Emperor	Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven	1	45
Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass	Going Places	1	45
Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass	Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass	1	45
Herb Alpert	Any of the 60s albums	1	45
J Dilla	Donuts	1	45
Jean-Michel Jarre	Oxygene	1	45
Jenova 7	Dusted Jazz, vol. 3	1	45
Les Baxter	Ritual of the Savage	1	45
Metal Machine Music	Lou Reed	1	45
Mike Oldfield	Ommadawn	1	45
Mort Garson	Mother Earth's Plantasia	1	45
St Germain	Tourist	1	45
The Beastie Boys	In Sounds From Way Out	1	45
The Beastie Boys	The Mix-up	1	45
The Caretaker	Everywhere At The End of Time	1	45
Weather Report	Heavy Weather	1	45
ABBA	Gold	1	46
Bob Dylan	Greatest Hits	1	46
Creedence Clearwater Revival	Chronicle	1	46
David Bowie	Changes	1	46
Earth Wind & Fire	V1	1	46
Judas Priest	Living After Midnight	1	46
Prince	The Hits 1	1	46
Prince	The Hits 2	1	46
Queen	Greatest Hits 1	1	46
Queen	Greatest Hits 2	1	46
R.E.M.	In Time 1988-2003	1	46
Status Quo	Whatever You Want: The Very Best of Status Quo	1	46
Steve Miller Band	Greatest Hits 1974-78	1	46
The Beastie Boys	The Sounds Of Science	1	46
The Beatles	1 (Ones)	1	46
The Beatles	1967-1970 (the blue album)	1	46
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers	Greatest Hits	1	46
Van Morrison	At the Movies	1	46
Cardinal	Pinegrove	1	47
Frightened Rabbit	Midnight Organ Fight	1	47
From Under the Cork Tree	Fall Out Boy	1	47
Gringo Mayer	Gringo Mayer	1	47
Pan the Sirens	Pan the Sirens	1	47
Sam Fender	Hypersonic Missles	1	47
Steven Wilson	Hand. Cannot. Erase	1	47
The Posies	Dear 23	1	47
Toploader	Onka's Big Moka	1	47
Young Marble Giants	Colossal Youth	1	47
Barenaked Ladies	Stunt	1	48
Bruce Springsteen	Wrecking Ball	1	48
Jimi Hendrix	Axis: Bold as Love	1	48
Megadeth	So Far, So Good..... So What!!!!	1	48
Ministry	Psalm 69	1	48
Nine Inch Nails	Broken	1	48
The Prodigy	Their Law: The Singles 1990-2005	1	48
Tom Jones	Greatest Hits	1	48
AC/DC	Powerage	1	49
Ace of Spades by Motörhead is overrated. It has some great songs on it by the also a lot of shit	49
Deathconsciousness by have a nice life is a really bad album but 4chan people thought wow the bad production and the fact that it was all recorded with a macbook mic makes it special and amazing but its very boring and bad	49
Full moon fever by Tom petty was better than highway 61 revisited	49
I think that Alice In Chains Tripod is significantly better than Dirt even though I do enjoy both	49
Master Of Puppets is not the best Metallica album	49
Neither The Rolling Stones nor The Who have ever produced a great album	49
Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys is like listening to Nursery rhymes and has zero depth to it	49
Pet Sounds is three hits and boring filler	49
Powerage is WAY better than Back In Black	49
Radiohead - OK Computer does nothing for me	49
Tales from Topographic Oceans is the best album by Yes	49
The White Album by the Beatles isn't the masterpiece so many of my friends claim it to be	49
Young Americans is the album of David Bowie I listen the least to	49
Frank Zappa	Civilization Phaze III	1	51
George Harrison	Branwashed	1	51
Johnny Cash	American V	1	51
Johnny Cash	American VI	1	51
Johnny Cash	Unearthed	1	51
Otis Redding	The Dock of the Bay	1	51
Brian Eno	music for airports	1	52
Comsat Angels	Sleep No More	1	52
John Martyn	Solid Air	1	52
Melody AM	Royksopp	1	52
Mike Oldfield	Amarok	1	52
Miles Davis	In A Silent Way	1	52
PJ Harvey	Uh Huh Her	1	52
Simple Things	Zero 7	1	52
The Orb	Orblivion	1	52
Wednesday Morning	Wednesday Morning	1	52
Celine Dion	Let's Talk About Love	1	53
Coldplay	any	1	53
Have a nice life	deathconsciousness	1	53
Metallica	Metallica (The Black Album)	1	53
Nick Drake	Pink Moon	1	53
Taylor Swift	1989	1	53
The Eagles	Hotel California	1	53
Weezer	Blue Album	1	53
Gang of Four	Entertainment!	1	54
London Calling	The Clash	1	54
Marc Ribbot	Songs of Resistance: 1942–2018	1	54
Monty Python	Matching Tie And Handkerchief	1	54
Neil Young	Neil Young	1	54
Pink Floyd	Animals	1	54
Sly and the Family Stone	There's a Riot Goin' On	1	54
Billy Cobham	Spectrum	1	55
Coldplay	Parachutes	1	55
Dexys Midnight Runners	Searching for the Young Soul Rebels	1	55
Eazy E	It's On (Dr Dre) 187um Killa	1	55
Foo Fighters	Sonic Highways	1	55
Kingston Wall	II	1	55
Lou Reed	Set The Twilight Reeling	1	55
RH Factor	Hard Groove	1	55
The Parlor Mob	And You Were A Crow	1	55
The Smaahing Pumpkins	Adore	1	55
Trio	Trio	1	55
Candlemass	The Door To Doom	1	56
Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds	Live at Luther College	1	56
Deadsy	Commencement	1	56
Falco	Emotional	1	56
Journey	Escape	1	56
Somersault	Beach Fossils	1	56
The Stooges	Fun House	1	56
Bill Cosby	Bill	1	57
Chris De Burgh	Chris De Burgh	1	57
LostProphets	The Fake Sound of Progress	1	57
R.E.M.	Monster	1	57
Whitesnake	Whitesnake	1	57
Chris Bell	I Am the Cosmos	1	58
Radiohead	Pablo Honey	1	58
Talk Talk	Spirit of Eden	1	58
The Black Album	Metallica	1	58
The Blue Nile	Hats	1	58
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers	Damn the Torpedoes	1	58
Begin	The Millennium	1	59
Dr. Dre	2001	1	59
Frank Zappa	One Size Fits All	1	59
In Flames	Soundtrack to your Escape	1	59
Marillion	Marbles	1	59
Queen	Jazz	1	59
Rush	Hemispheres	1	59
Coldplay	Viva La Vida	1	60
James Blunt	Back to Bedlam	1	60
Oasis	first three albums	1	60
Queen	Sheer heart attack	1	60
Sounds Of My Youth	Sounds Of My Youth	1	60
Ted Nugent	Cat Scratch Fever	1	60
Adam & The Ants	Prince Charming	1	61
Andrew Lloyd Webber	Jesus Christ Superstar: Original London Cast	1	61
Badfinger	Magic Christian Music	1	61
Bo Hansson	Lord of the Rings	1	61
Eminem	Recovery	1	61
Iron Butterfly	In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida	1	61
Pet Shop Boys	Please	1	61
Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman	The Gnome Mobile	1	61
Shakin Stevens	This Ol' House	1	61
Styx	The Grand Illusion	1	61
The Beatles	Introducing The Beatles	1	61
The Partridge Family	The Partridge Family Album	1	61
The Prodigy	The Fat of the Land	1	61
The Royal Guardsmen	Snoopy and His Friends	1	61
Big Star	No. 1 Record	1	62
Bruce Springsteen	Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ	1	62
Emerson, Lake & Palmer	ELP	1	62
Imagine Dragons	Night Visions	1	62
Iron Maiden	Iron Maiden	1	62
Kanye West	College Dropout	1	62
Leon Bridges	Coming Home	1	62
Linkin Park	Linkin Park	1	62
Marillion	Script for a Jesters Tear	1	62
Pearl Jam	Ten	1	62
Teenage Fanclub	A Catholic Education	1	62
Tesla	Mechanical Resonance	1	62
Van Halen	Van Halen I	1	62
Weezer	Weezer	1	62
Boston	Don't Look Back	1	63
CrazySexyCool	TLC	1	63
Eden Alley	Timbuk3	1	63
Imagine Dragons	Smoke and Mirrors	1	63
Mansun	Six	1	63
My Chemical Romance	Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge	1	63
Nas	It Was Written	1	63
Outkast	ATLiens	1	63
Raincoats	Odyshape	1	63
Rush	Fly by Night	1	63
Silkworm	Libertine	1	63
The Smithereens	Green Thoughts	1	63
The Velvet Underground	White Light/White Heat	1	63
Vampire Weekend	Contra	1	63
Van Halen	Van Halen II	1	63
Bob Dylan	Rough and Rowdy Ways	1	64
Bruce Springsteen	The Rising	1	64
Bruce Springsteen	Western Stars	1	64
Comus	Out of the Coma (2012)	1	64
David Bowie	final 2 albums	1	64
David Bromberg	Use Me	1	64
David Gilmour	David Gilmour	1	64
David Gilmour	On An Island if not	1	64
Fountains of Wayne	Sky Full of Holes	1	64
Fugazi	The Argument	1	64
Iron Maiden	A Matter of Life and Death	1	64
Iron Maiden	Senjutsu	1	64
Marillion	Sounds That Can't Be Made	1	64
Metallica	Death Magnetic onwards	1	64
Neil Young	Mirror Ball	1	64
Paul McCartney	Chaos and Creation in the Backyard	1	64
Paul McCartney	Egypt Station	1	64
Pink Floyd	All three Gilmour-led albums	1	64
Pink Floyd	The Division Bell	1	64
Roger Waters	Is This The Life We Really Want?	1	64
Rush	Clockwork angels	1	64
Sunny Day Real Estate	How It Feels To Be Something On	1	64
Tears For Fears	The Tipping Point	1	64
You Want It Darker	You Want It Darker	1	64
Aerosmith	Done with Mirror	1	65
Black Sabbath	13	1	65
Bob Dylan	Time Out Of Mind	1	65
Deep Purple	Perfect Strangers	1	65
Dinosaur Jr	Beyond	1	65
Elvis Presley	The 68 Comeback Special	1	65
Manic Street Preachers	Manic Street Preachers	1	65
Permanent Vacation	Aerosmith	1	65
Portishead	Third	1	65
Santana	Supernatural	1	65
The Who	Endless Wire	1	65
David Bowie	most	1	66
Green Day	American Idiot	1	66
Neil Young	Living With War	1	66
Will Oldham	Viva Last Blues	1	66
Austrian Death Machine	A Very Brutal Christmas	1	67
Barenaked Ladies	Barenaked for the Holidays	1	67
Bruce Cockburn	Christmas Album	1	67
Hed Kandi	Beach House compilations	1	67
Jackson 5	Christmas album	1	67
Jacob Miller	Xmas album	1	67
James Brown	Soulful Christmas	1	67
John Denver & The Muppets	A Christmas Together	1	67
Mundy	24 Star Hotel	1	67
Phil Spector	Xmas album	1	67
Stevie Wonder	Someday at Christmas	1	67
Sting	Ten Summoners Tales	1	67
Sugar	Beaster	1	67
Vince Guaraldi	A Charlie Brown Christmas	1	67
Acid Witch	Witchtanic Hallucinations	1	68
Black Sabbath	Born Again	1	68
Castlemania	Thee Oh Sees	1	68
Danny Elfman	The Nightmare Before Christmas Soundtrack	1	68
King Diamond	Them	1	68
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds	Murder Ballads	1	68
The Birthday Party	Junkyard	1	68
Various Artists	Ghostbusters (1984) OST	1	68
Various Artists	Rocky Horror Picture Show	1	68
A Flock of Seagulls	A Flock of Seagulls	1	69
Dada	Puzzle	1	69
Edwyn Collins	Dr. Syntax	1	69
Gary Numan	Pleasure Principle	1	69
Jonathan Edwards	Jonathan Edwards	1	69
Marc Cohn	Marc Cohn	1	69
The Sex Pistols	Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols	1	69
Dread Zeppelin	Dread Zeppelin	1	70
Gorillaz	Demon Days	1	70
King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard	Omnium Gatherum	1	70
Lewis Taylor	Lewis Taylor	1	70
The Fugees	The Score	1	70
U2	Pop	1	70
Buena Vista Social Club	Buena Vista Social Club	1	71
Carmen	Fandangos in Space	1	71
Cheikh Lô	Bambay Gueej	1	71
Cocteau Twins	any album	1	71
Einsturzende Neubauten	Halber Mensch	1	71
Gaye Su Akyol	Gaye Su Akyol	1	71
Hard Rock from the Middle East	Hard Rock from the Middle East	1	71
Kaiser's Orchestra	Evig Pint	1	71
Konomi Suzuki (鈴木 このみ)	Ultra Flash	1	71
Måneskin	Teatro d'ira Vol. 1	1	71
Melody Nelson	Serge Gainsbourg	1	71
Os Mutantes	Os Mutantes	1	71
Rammstein	Reise, Reise	1	71
Rosalia	Motomami	1	71
Super Furry Animals	Mwng	1	71
The Gipsy Kings	anything	1	71
X Japan	Blue Blood	1	71
Anthrax	Among the Living	1	72
Fleet Foxes	Fleet Foxes	1	72
John Prine	Lost Dogs + Mixed Blessings	1	72
Led Zeppelin	Presence	1	72
Nico	Chelsea Girls	1	72
Nina Nastasia	Dogs	1	72
Taylor Swift	Folklore	1	72
Brian Eno	Ambient 1: Music For Airports	1	73
Mike Oldfield	Mike Oldfield	1	73
Neil Young	Harvest Moon	1	73
Simon and Garfunkel	Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme	1	73
Willie Nelson	Stardust	1	73
Adele	19	1	74
Bohren und der Club of Gore	Black Earth	1	74
Celer	In Light of Blues	1	74
Firehose	Flyin' the Flannel	1	74
Fleetwood Mac	Madison Blues	1	74
Genesis	Trespass	1	74
Gogo Penguin	Everything Is Going to Be OK	1	74
Jeff Beck	Jeff	1	74
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion	Now I Got Worry	1	74
Leonard Cohen	The Future	1	74
Marika Hackman	We Slept at Last	1	74
Megadeth	Risk	1	74
Method Man	Tical	1	74
Queen	A Day at the Races	1	74
Queen	Made in Heaven	1	74
The Allman Brothers	Idlewild South	1	74
The Beach Boys	In Concert	1	74
The Beach Boys	Wild Honey	1	74
The Smashing Pumpkins	Atum: A Rock Opera in Three Acts	1	74
The Smashing Pumpkins	Gish	1	74
Thyrane	Travesty of Heavenly Essence	1	74
Tupac Shakur	The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory	1	74
Warren Zevon	The Best Of Warren Zevon	1	74
Widespread Panic	Space Wrangler	1	74
Yes	Yessongs	1	74
Jeff Buckley	Jeff Buckley	1	75
Led Zeppelin	Kashmir	1	75
Pink Floyd	The Dark Side of the Moon	1	75
Radiohead	A Moon Shaped Pool	1	75
Simon and Garfunkel	Bookends	1	75
The Allman Brothers Band	At Filmore East…	1	75
The Grateful Dead	American Beauty	1	75

Hello 👋🏼
It’s me again! I thought I’d share my story about my most unlikely manifestation. It wasn’t deliberate, but when I think back to it, LoA is the only possible answer to how this happened.
I’m Chinese. Why am I mentioning this? Basically, grades were my world - and it put me into an incredibly negative place. Anyway, it was coming up to the end of my highschool years and I was 17 years old. I had to select a university that I would want to attend.
I went to my first choice university’s open evening, and they stated that in 2012, the minimum grade for acceptance was AAB (to get into the course I wanted). No one got in via clearing.
At the open evening, they had a talk about campus accommodation. They stated that accommodation in the main halls was only guaranteed by those with an unconditional offer. Everyone else would essentially have to fight for a spot. My dad nudged me and said jokingly “why can’t you get an unconditional offer?”
I laughed and silently kicked myself for not receiving one. I had heard that year that 2 people received unconditionals for the course as a result of being exceptional. I got a conditional offer of AAA. I was well on track with my grades, with predicted of AA*AA (I took an extra A-level).
When I got home, I logged onto my socials. Back then, I was active on a site called Tumblr (WAHOOO!) and there was an extremely popular post called “the shooting star”. It was a gif image of a shooting star which told the reader to make a wish and reshare the image. It became popular because so many people claimed it worked for them. I wished for an unconditional offer. Logically, it seemed a bit silly. I’ve never really heard of places changing a conditional to an unconditional, so it seemed rather baseless. But I wished real hard.
Fast forward to the day of exams… I collapsed in school. As in, I was rushed to A&E and was told that I had almost died due to pneumonia (I had severe asthma, and the flare up caused by pneumonia was… intense). I was placed into intensive care unit for 1 week. I had missed all my exams. I asked my friends to bring me my study books, so I would study on my hospital bed while the exams were going on. I was infuriated at myself.
Despite me being angry, I repeated to myself over and over “I’m getting into that university” with such fierce determination. I would find a way, and I would not make myself sit through another year of school.
On the day of results… you can imagine how mortified I was. I didn’t sit my exams, but they gave me placeholder grades. I came out with a BCCC. The next day I lay there in bed and my dad shook me awake and told me to look at my UCAS (the site we use to apply for uni). I refused and said “there’s no point. I’m not going to uni this year.”
My dad sounded disappointed but said “check anyway.”
So I did. I wiped my tears and plopped off to the toilet and prepared to cry. Until I open up the site and:
“You have been offered an unconditional offer.”
And that’s it. I didn’t redo my school year. I got to live in the main halls. My dad that day apparently went to work screaming of happiness. My mother still tells this story to her friends, claiming I’m magical.
Did me getting an unconditional offer come about in the way I expected it to? Absolutely not. But alas, the universe delivers in unique (sometimes slightly painful!) ways.

I just need to lay out my love for this game. I’m a newbie. Only 11% in. And I regret not having tried out this game sooner when the hype was at its peak.
I dislike FPS and shooters in general cause I play on consoles and I find it hard to aim and it stresses me out.
But… this game is so much fun! The fact that they don’t outline the enemies makes it so much more thrilling and realistic. There’s definitely a steep learning curve for me since I’m not used to using guns in games (hell, I avoided The Last of Us like the plague cause of it… lol), but this game blows my mind.
It’s currently on sale (playstation store) and I jumped right into it out of boredom. For reference, my favorite game of all time is The Witcher III, so I’m all for HUGE worlds to explore.
Not going to lie, didn’t think much of it in the first 30 minutes… but when it finally takes off… wow! I love how realistic everything is. How the world is alive! How NPCs can get upset and chase you down. How the horses look beautiful. The scenery. This game is from 2018!
What finally sealed the deal for me was Arthur and Lenny going to Valentine for a drink… you all know what comes next. I was laughing so hard at how both of them got wasted and started dancing and having a good time. Arthur’s vision blurring…. even the dialogue options having typos! “Lemmy? Gret”… amazing attention to detail.
Sorry for all the rambling and I’m sure you’ve probably read all of this before. This game is not short on praise, but I’m so happy I gave it a try and felt the need to share it with all of you!

Originally posted by u/electronic_gas_5769 in AmItheAsshole on Nov 11, '20, updated Dec 6, '20 and Oct 30, '22. I edited the first post to use the names OP uses in the next 2 posts instead of initials.
 
Trigger Warning: Cheating, loss of a loved one
Mood Spoiler: Both sad and happy parts
 
Original
Nov 11, '20
 
AITA for uninviting my daughter to our Christmas gathering?
Bear with me, I am on mobile.
I am a mother of 4 children. Two older sons and two younger daughters. All of them are adults and have moved out a long time ago.
I have always been close with my daughter Sally, while Penny has always liked to have her own space. Which I don't mind, theyre both beautiful talented young women that I thought I couldn't be more proud of.
We're having early Christmas this year. First week of December I was inviting everyone around for Christmas Dinner, gift giving and the lot.
When I Phoned Penny yesterday to clarify a few things she mentioned that she and her husband would not be coming.
When I asked she said that they had seperated for now as he had cheated. I said that it was surely better to spend time with family if this was the case and maybe she should come home for some time.
She ummed and ahhd but then eventually she told me he had an affair with Sally and they had been seeing each other for the past 2 years.
I felt sick. For the past 6 months in our talks, Sally has alluded that she had been seeing someone and was typically girl-in-love.
I uninvited Sally to the Christmas gathering and blocked her. I don't know if I'm able to deal with her before Christmas but this is family time and family can't hurt each other like that. I'm at a loss in all honesty. Penny is now coming which is good because at this time she needs stability of people who love her imo.
The problem is that Sally naturally thinks I'm in the wrong. It's none of my business and as her mother I can't block her and remove her from the family.
My sister thinks I shouldn't get involved in their personal lives which I think is bs. My daughter needs us right now. But then she tells me "I have two daughters to think about". Which I think isn't true. Sally has forfeited that right atm.
Thankfully my husband is liaising with Sally atm but he is also in solidarity with me.
So are we in the wrong for uninviting a daughter for Christmas??
Edit: my husband showed me that this had gotten a lot responses. Too many for us to answer them all but we will be reading through before bed.
A small update: Penny's MIL found out. While me and her have only spoken a few times, she did dote on Penny and I know Penny got along well with her. I haven't spoken to her personally, but I know she phoned my daughter and was really supportive and crying.
My sister said that if Sally isn't invited then she isn't going either. Which is fine by me - she wasn't invited in the first place due to the pandemic. Otherwise I've been working and doing some crochet so it's been quiet :)
 
Judgment: Not The Asshole
 
1st Update
Dec 6, '20 - About 1 month later
 
Hello all! My Christmas gathering was yesterday and my son & husband wondered if I would post an update for you all.
It's been rather uneventful, but I've been equally surrounded by warmth and love while also feeling heartbroken and lonely.
So first of all, since my post, my husband has been teaching me to use reddit! I've really enjoyed being in some craft communities 😊
My daughter Penny has been staying with us. She works from home. My husband and eldest went to get some more of her stuff from her old house. Pennys mother-in-law (Jane) was there and was very helpful and sweet. She also bought some mint hot chocolate for our penny and Christmas candles. I know they're her favourite.
From what penny has told me, Jane is having similar feelings to me. A lot of guilt over our children's decision to hurt people we love. I think at this point we have to accept that we did our best raising them, but they're adults now so we can't beat ourselves up.
Penny and Jane are going to stay in touch. I think Jane truly does think of penny as a daughtefriend 😊😊
Onto some more negative things. I wrote my letter to Sally during this time. I expressed that I was extremely disappointed and also disgusted. While I will continue to have a relationship with her, she won't be welcome to any family gatherings with penny present unless penny has met a point in her life where she feels comfortable. I told her what some of you had said, that not taking a side would be a side and that she had for all intents and purposes, already uninvited herself when she was so cruel to her sister.
Sally had apparently come up on Friday and knocked on the door. I was out shopping at the time. My husband spoke to her. Apparently, Sally and Michael (my son-in-law) are going to continue their relationship. I will not support it in any way or form. She may be my daughter but that man is not welcome. I am supporting penny through the divorce, and if Sally ever expects money for the wedding or a house then she's a very naïve girl. My husband sent her away, after which Sally said we'd have to get over it someday.
Otherwise, the Christmas gathering was lovely. It was strange not getting drunk and playing boardgames due to covid, but still a pleasant time. My hip hurts from the cooking 😭 but husband and penny did the cleaning up so who's the real winner?
I hope you all have a wonderful day. Thank you very much for your kind words when I last spoke to you ♥
EDIT: I know some are concerned about Covid, but please know that we live in a country with very few cases and we met within government guidelines.
 
2nd Update
Oct 30, '22 - Almost 2 years later
 
Update
Hello all!
I hope this message finds you well. A lot has changed since I last spoke with you all, so I would like to update you because I am finding things a bit difficult right now.
First of all, Penny is doing well! She met someone new about a year ago; they're incredibly supportive and sweet, and they made such an effort in getting to know me and my husband. Penny was still living with me when she started seeing them, so I got to watch their relationship develop - and although Penny is a grown woman I couldn't help but be reminded of when she was a child and having crushes. It was very endearing and I'm glad I got to witness firsthand the smile her new partner gives her. Penny also got a new job and has moved to Ireland with her partner.
Sally and Michael have continued their relationship. I don't have a lot of love to give Michael. I am civil enough but frankly, it is difficult for me to become invested in their relationship at all. Michael recently asked my permission to marry Sally, which was disrespectful, to say the least. Penny still lived with me last Christmas, so again they were not invited. I am not hosting this Christmas and am instead going to go visit my eldest son, he and his wife had a little boy at the beginning of this year. They've asked me to stay with them for a little while so I can help with the cooking and cleaning, as they have been struggling a little bit.
Finally, my husband passed away 9 months ago. He fell while on a walk and hit his head, and was there for some hours before someone found him. It's been a difficult transition, to put it mildly. Being a little bit on the older side, I've lost a fair few people in my life and while I did grieve, I always had the strength to continue. Losing my husband made me realise how much I relied on him. Not just to take the bins out, or pick me up from choir practice, but all the times I was angry, sad, and overwhelmed and he was there for me.
When other people passed away at least you get moments of respite in the grief, where you just sort of "forget" they've passed. With my husband, there are only reminders. Every time I wake up alone, when I now have to take the bins out, when I have to cook a meal just for one person. There's not really a moment of peace in this grief and I have found it very difficult to deal with. It's his birthday at the end of November, and there was another moment of grief as I had to get rid of my notes for birthday gift ideas in my notebook. Everything has just been so painful to deal with and I just cannot stop crying even after all this time. I just can't even stand to think of the good moments I shared with him because it just hurts too much. I know there's not a correct way to grieve or time-limit, but I just feel like I've got to get up and start looking after myself for everyone around me.
I really want to thank any of you that read this. It's been incredibly helpful just to be able to share my feelings a little bit. I hope you all have been doing well.
Kind regards.
 
Reminder, DO NOT comment on the original posts or contact the original poster. I am not the original poster. This is a repost.

My happiness and contentment for life in general has increased with age. I am a person that has chased the mysteries of the universe in an obsessive fashion due to my curiosity outweighing even my self-preservation. (I'm the first one to die in a horror movie situation. When we hear the strange monster make a noise outside, I'm the one that says, wait here, I'll check it out!)
I believe one aspect has been similar to achieving what Nietzsche called Amor Fati, or love of fate.
The idea he had was that a type of inner peace could be achieved by removing regret or wishful reflection upon instances in the past or to love all events, bad or good, as it truly happened.
As I have a bit stronger empathy for humanity as a whole than many people, I used to contemplate the fate of humanity and stress about what my role was in it. Over the last decade, I've really started to love the story of humanity in a way that I believe I love the fate of us as it truly is.
Yes, humanity has some sucky parts and we may be headed towards a cliff, but the existence of humanity in itself and its uniqueness on the planet (maybe the universe) is beautiful to me. I see beauty in the universe and whatever we were or will become, I believe I will see the beauty in it.

Briefly, I’d like to say I really enjoy reading the content here, but this is my first time trying my own hand at writing a post. If anyone has recommendations for improvement I’d be happy to hear them. There is so, so, so much drama in the ballet world, so hopefully this will be the first in a series of sorts. I’ll try to keep it relatively light for my first post, but this write-up will include some mentions of racism. Also, apologies for any formatting issues, I am on mobile.
With that being said, let’s get on to the drama.
What is ballet? I’ll try to keep this part brief. Just in case you haven’t heard of it, ballet is a heavily codified and strict form of dance rising out of France in the 17th century. It traveled all around Europe, and eventually the world, changing and taking shape along the way. In the late 18th century some absolute sadist decided that this art would look even better if the dancers had to do everything balanced on the top of their toes, and thus the pointe shoe was born, defining the style to this day.
What is Swan Lake? In the 19th century Russia was the place to be for ballet. Tchaikovsky was writing his greatest music for the royal theater, and working with him was the genius choreographer Marius Pepita. In 1870, this collaboration would lead to a little work called Swan Lake. Swan Lake is one of the most famous ballets of all time, eclipsed only by The Nutcracker. It is a big display of feathers and drama and death and I love it very much.
The plot revolves around a woman who has been cursed to turn into a swan, and the prince who falls in love with her. Unfortunately, the prince is tricked by an evil swan woman who dances so seductively that he promises to marry her instead. This confusion leads to the good swan being so heartbroken she simply cannot live on, and the ballet ends with her tragic death. I know this plot sounds batshit insane, but the dances are so beautiful it kind of helps you forget that. Traditionally both of the lead swan roles are played by the same dancer, which is a massive challenge not just because she will be on stage for ~2 hours, but also because the evil swan (referred to as the black swan or Odiele) has a famously difficult section where she has to do 32 of the same turn. In a row. Put a pin in that for a moment.
Who is Misty Copeland? Misty Copeland is possibly the most famous ballet dancer in the world right now. If you forced someone on the street to name a ballet dancer, it would either be her or Natalie Portman in that one movie. Misty became famous as the first black ballerina promoted to a principal dancer at American Ballet Theater, the de facto national dance company of the U.S. This was a huge step forward for the ballet world, especially notable for the fact that it took waaaaaayyyy too long to happen. Misty was promoted to principal in 2015, the first black dancer to achieve this in the company’s 75 year history.
Misty is not the first black ballerina in history, but she did break a major boundary for future dancers. It’s no secret that the ballet world is stiff, slow-to-change, and overwhelmingly white. Her success was in spite of the conservative powers that be, and made her a huge inspiration to many people. Misty capitalized on this, doing magazine interviews, social media campaigns, and writing several books. She is certainly a groundbreaking ballet dancer.
But is she a good dancer? …that’s a very controversial question. She’s obviously better than the average person, but most dancers would argue she doesn’t stand out from other professionals. Her technique and virtuosity are not what is remarkable about her, and her dancing itself isn’t what made her famous. The problem with talking about this is that conservative ballet people also use this as an excuse to tear down a successful black dancer. It is difficult to distinguish someone that has good faith concerns about her qualifications from someone that is pretending to have concerns in order to voice their racist opinions on her. This had been simmering under the surface for her whole career, but really came to the head in 2018, when Copeland was called to perform the lead role in Swan Lake on a huge international tour stop in Singapore.
Black Swan Remember that pin from earlier? We’re bringing it back. Copeland had performed Swan Lake many times before, including in the lead role, and reviews were mixed. The consensus matches up pretty well with general comments about her dancing, that she’s an average-good performer, but her jumps and turns are underdeveloped and her technique is rough around the edges. Her performance in Singapore overall reflects this, with one glaring issue. The 32 turns.
This is probably the most famous danced section of the ballet, and definitely the most famous piece for the black swan. As mentioned above, Misty is not a very strong turner. She often substitutes in simpler moving steps instead of turning in the same space, as Swan Lake demands. The Singapore performance is particularly rough, and unfortunately someone in the audience that night was filming. Apologies in advance for the poor video quality, but obviously this was a bootleg.
For reference, here’s a whole bunch of other dancers doing the same section- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEX_KCIBV9o And now here’s Misty- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqqya96rkss
Misty is obviously off-center from the start, having to hop and slowly drifting across the stage for the turns she does complete. Rather than resetting and finishing out the sets she completely gives up at 17 seconds in and substitutes in a different step.This was not a one-time change. There is additional footage from other performances that show the same thing, replacing at least half the turns with other, simpler moves. It’s clear she can’t do 16 turns in a row, much less the full 32. It had been known to the ballet world for a while that Misty wasn’t an amazing turner, but having video proof made the whole thing start spiraling beyond that.
Responses The backlash started out on small ballet forums, and then spread to blogs and other news outlets. Various reputable sources and also the Daily Mail wrote articles about how embarrassing the video looked for Copeland. The media narrative was quick to get negative, and Copeland is nothing if not media savvy. She had to make a response. And that she did.
Misty chose to respond to a particular negative comment on Instgram-https://www.instagram.com/p/Bg3VEi2hWc-/?hl=en&taken-by=mistyonpointe Her response is fairly long and eloquent. She points out that she has never claimed to be the best dancer, and that she is grateful to even have the opportunity to perform this role. She also highlights the importance of artistry and storytelling to ballet as a whole. This response kicked off a second wave of media responses, mostly gushing clickbait articles supporting Misty unquestioningly. Most people called the performance an “off day”, saying it wasn’t representative of her dancing as a whole.
Conclusion For the ballet world, this was a huge story. However, the ballet world is not that big or important to most people. The whole thing was easily swept past, an article or two were posted online and everyone acted outraged for a few days. It hasn’t had a meaningful impact on Copeland’s career, she’s still dancing with ABT and as mentioned is massively popular. She has recently taken a break from performing, but is still very much a part of the company and will probably get more opportunities to perform Swan Lake in future. Anyone that doesn’t like her will just have to die mad about it.
Additional reading In case you’re interested, I got a lot of my additional info here- https://balletfocus.com/misty-copeland/ The writer is not a professional dancer, but does work closely with the ballet world and wrote one of the more comprehensive and unbiased accounts I could find. Most news outlets that covered the story are either exclusively covering Copeland’s response or just designed to tear her down. I’m not interested in trashing her reputation or calling her a terrible dancer, and I don’t want to link to anyone that’s doing that either.
I do think there are other black dancers that deserve to have as much praise and adulation as Copeland, and it’s frustrating that she alone gets so much media attention. However she has done a lot of good with her platform, and her outreach to young dancers especially is really admirable. If you have a little dancer in your life, consider reading them one of her picture books. Or hey, go to a local dance performance! There are thousands of talented dancers in smaller regional companies that don’t ever get the kind of attention American Ballet Theater generates. Having public support is what keeps dance going, whether you’re an intentionally famous principal or a local beginner.

Please give me advice 27F making a decision about my relationship with 37M I grew up in a very conservative and strict home and got married through an arrangement at age 23. I had only known my husband for 5 months before the wedding and got pregnant and had a baby 9 months after.
It’s been nearly 4 years of marriage but I’m unhappy I used to blame my in-laws for our differences because they have a big negative influence on him and after a couple months of marriage they grew to dislike me because I didn’t want to be the obedient daughter in law and live with them anymore. We have lived alone for about 2 years however things haven’t been that much better. Our issues consist of him wanting to spend more time with his family than with our daughter and I.
My husband also doesn’t give me much of his time, attention or make any effort to plan things unless i suggest them. I feel as if I’m just the classic housewife but nothing more I’ve communicated my wants and needs multiple times and he tells me he will try to change and I’ve seen changes but it never lasts. He changes for a period of time then goes back to how he was, we constantly argue and we are generally not happy with each other even on special occasions such as birthdays.
I’m currently at my family’s home and I’ve said I’m tired of being disappointed every time by him and want a divorce. However to be completely honest I’m scared, I know that I’m not happy with him but I don’t know what to do, I don’t want to regret it.
No one is perfect and I wouldn’t know what deal breakers are as I’ve only been in a relationship with him. I was considering of living together for my daughters sake ( because even if she sees him in the day when I put her to sleep at night and it’s just her and I, she cries for him and it breaks my heart).
Im so confused because his a good person provides for our family and a good dad however not a good husband because I feel he doesn’t love me or care for me even though he says that’s not true. I have another concern he doesn’t know how to express him self or communicate his feelings when I question him about it he’s not sure why.
I thought about the possibility of him actually have difficulties with understanding emotions (I don’t know if this is important but he has a family member that has low level of autism) because when we argue he says it’s not an argument and in general he doesn’t communicate much and doesn’t know how to start a conversation it will take maybe 20 minutes or I have to start it. He’s socially awkward and doesn’t know how to deal with certain situations and even says hurtful things then says I didn’t mean them or I don’t know why I said that after I explain why I’m hurt.
I’ve suggested marriage counselling before however he wasn’t too keen on going. He told me that he will change and won’t make me feel neglected and hurt again but he’s told me that so many times before that I just don’t believe him.
TL;DR;: Is feeling neglected and unloved in a marriage enough to divorce? because other than this problem my life with him is good and my daughter living a happy life in a two parent home. Is it enough that he is just a good parent but not a good husband? How do children cope with divorce? What do people do in these situations? Any advice would be appreciated Thank you.

im from scarborough, lookin for some cool birthday cards like minions maybe singing happy bday? or weird disney character bday cards?

Its been several months. We did the awkward small talk and they asked about the dog we got together that lives with me now. Then basically avoided eye contact with each until we eventually walked away, which is fine, just weird. I miss talking to them everyday but I know even if we did get on casual speaking terms we wouldn’t be talking to the same people we once were. I will always love them but I don’t want to get back together with them anymore I just want my best friend back. I miss you, stranger.
You looked beautiful tonight. Even after everything you put me through your smile is still my happy place.

Hello!
My amazing niece is turning 16 in June. She is pure sunshine and one of my favorite people on the planet. I've asked her what she'd like for her birthday and one of the items is beauty products. I'm a 47 year old bald guy with a big beard with absolutely no experience with these types of products. The last time I needed a comb was in the 90's.
I'd like to get her some type of a gift basket, whether a premade one or something I'd have to create. I overheard her speaking with a friend of hers that she likes sugar scrubs and facials/masks. I'd like to stay under $350 USD for all of it.
I could really use your assistance.
I tried searching posts here but I was overwhelmed by the amount of information and I really didn't know where to start. My apologies if this post is not appropriate for this sub.
Her Description: She's 5'9", very physically active, sandy brown hair with a fair complexion, and bright blue eyes.