Post recommendations for great books, movies, comics, music by women! Shamelessly self-promote (as I am doing, below the cut) your own work! Use quotes from the thread to make your own counter-intuitive valentine! I’m going to leave this up today as a general open thread. by women advice, if you’re still reading, and I think you are). He behaved pretty badly and needs to grow up a bit and learn that the world won’t issue him a girlfriend, but he’s obviously a sad, genuinely lonely dude and I’m hoping that he’ll come back in a couple weeks and read some of the comments again (and I was serious about the reading more books, etc. I’m not going to close comments over there, but I’m going to ask that people don’t go in just to beat up on the LW some more. Next time I apply for jobs I’m going to put “curator of best commentspace on the Internet” on my resume without irony.
I could spend the next three months taking comments from that thread and building them out into their own posts. This community fucking rocks, is what I’m saying. And what we got was stuff like PomperaFirpa’s guide to finding your awesome, finding your venue for awesome, and a 5-step plan for having a casual conversation with a stranger about anything that even includes instructions for making a graceful exit! Designed BY introverts FOR introverts. We all have to sleep, and there is no worse a time than when I must lie down and let my mind wander as the loneliness that I spent a whole day running from sucks the very essence of my soul from my body leaving me shivering and alone. The icy grip of loneliness is always one step behind me and if I stop for one second, I’ll be ensnared. The last communication I received from our dear LW before hitting the block button was a hearty “ go fuck yourself!” I was hoping for something more poetic from the man who gave us this: The commenters gave, collectively, some of the greatest advice about dating, liking and being nice to yourself, meeting people, and pulling yourself out of bad patterns of thinking ever assembled on the internet. If you feel overwhelmed about diving in, Rachel Scotland made a tl dr version here. A lovely photo that probably deserved better than this.
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