Yes! This is such a good point. I really identified with the author’s pre-IUD constant low-grade fear of my BC pills not working properly and this was a big part of that.

It’s painful but bearable and doesn’t last long. And is totally worth the effects.

I’ve listened to or read that part of the speech three or four times since it was live earlier and I cry each time. I’m still trying to figure out what I need to do for my seven year old daughter’s future and for your baby’s.

They vary a lot - apparently the ones of Mary King’s Close are pretty tame, but some of the others (including the one I took) can be really scary. Those closes are total nightmares.

Totally sinister. A lot of things just seem more sinister in an isolated location, that is his home, when you’re intoxicated - but this is just straight up sinister and I don’t understand how anyone can think otherwise.

My beloved cat died and returned to haunt our apartment several years ago. Our daughter was a baby at the time so we often had baby gates or other barriers like a full laundry basket in the doorways, and we constantly saw a dark blur like a cat jumping over the barriers. Occasionally, we’d feel a cat jumping on the…

GOOD DOGGIES.

My first thought was that it *was* him doing it in some weird way, like...gaslighting her (and then you) with a demon voice? Uggggh glad you are not in that situation now. (And second the commenter who recommended The Little Stranger).

Noooooo.

This is the best, hands down. Mildly creepy but also heartwarming?

This is so scary! I’m glad you’re ok and also glad you didn’t do the thing they ALWAYS do in horror movies and actually go into the basement, because I think you’re absolutely right about point #3.

When you mentioned where you were staying I had a feeling Greyfriars was going to be involved somehow - it is apparently SUPER haunted (if you believe in that sort of thing), which is saying something because Edinburgh itself is chock full of ghost stories. The ghost tours that take you into the underground closes -…

All the copies I’ve cataloged for my library system have been large print, which says something about them to me.

So it does have an end, though?

I had those!

Same, UGH.

Accidental like “I let everyone know I’m a garbage human when I only meant to do something illegal and shitty in private”.

That’s the one!

“Accidentally”. Where’s that Jennifer Lawrence gif.

Agreed. I recognized at least one in my state as an online university (as far as I know, it’s completely online).