I love this little dude <3

Thank you everyone, very sincerely. It’s a huge help!

Haha, thanks. Luckily it hadn’t become a physical dependency, so it’s actually mostly been kinda nice waking up without a hangover and having a little extra energy throughout the day, but knowing it’s not an option when I do want to drink again is challenging.

Thanks! Like I said, I haven’t told anyone yet that I’ve actually stopped drinking, but I let a couple people know it was imminent, and they were supportive and helpful.

I’m trying to get sober right now. (It’s very, very new. Like, a couple days. Like, this is the first time I’m talking about it, online or IRL.) It sucks, and I admire Demi Lovato’s years of sobriety, of course, but also her honesty about her recent relapse. I hope she recovers from her OD and makes her way back to…

I’m an (I’m told) young-looking 32, and she looks younger than me in that picture.

It was smack dab *in* my MTV prime, so I always get a wave of “holy shit the late 90s” whenever I hear his name.

Ooh, I was going to say C and D haha. We clearly have very different Taylor Swift positions.

And has a great Twitter account that I followed for years before realizing it was him.

Her dad’s guitar. Her ex-husband is an absolute creep and Kurt Cobain wannabe.

Do we hate Joel McHale? I’d think we’d have cycled back to never-did-anything-to-deserve-the-dislike indifference by now.

Happy to share. Also, for the record, I like them when I’m in non-long distance situations too, but the distance is relevant here.

I think it was her mom, but yeah.

I’m in a long distance sexual relationship and I absolutely love pictures of my partner’s genitals, and specifically request them. (He has a penis, but I think I’d want pics of a vagina as well, if I was dating someone with one.) I associate it with happy sexual memories and the image of it turns me on.

You’re one of the good ones, TheDude. Or you at least have *very strong* potential to be one of them. Very Dude of you.

Sometimes those of us who aren’t (cishet, etc.) white dudes get a little defensive about this shit. I don’t know bishtaco, even online, but I think that they were just coming from that defensive place I was, initially. I’m just advocating you take your open-minded mentality into their comment like you did with mine,…

Hey, ‘member when you just said you get why I’d jump to conclusions about you and also that you need to remember when to “shut up and listen” as a “white dude”? Bishtaco isn’t saying you haven’t faced hardship; they’re saying (*literally*) that Cardi B has “life experience [you] will never have.” You have life…

My absolute favorite thing about random internet commenting is starting off in total “internet combat mode” with a person and coming to a genuine understanding with them, so this has made my evening.

That last edit wasn’t even a conscious reference to your username/photo. I scrolled up after I wrote it and realized (consciously, anyways) that they were Lebowski refs.

I wasn’t being “passive-aggressive”; I was specifically implying by what I said that you are a troll and I wanted you to fuck off. Otherwise, I’m glad you proved me wrong about the troll point— you seem like you’re just expressing your opinion, which I disagree with, but respect as, like, your opinion, man.