Confused on when to trademark

Hello,
I recently created a business but I've yet to actually sell items under this name. I'm aware there's a separate application that states you have intent to sell, and then file once again with proof of usage. For now I've created accounts in all social media platforms under my name + wix url. I'm left to consider if I want to sell for a while, then trademark, or trademark first and then sell. I'm absolutely positive this is the name I want to use, and there's no trademark problems in my way. I'm just unsure of WHEN it's necessary, especially considering I'm a bit strapped on money for some of these fees. Thank you

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u/8mxmoon8 — 5 days ago

In year 15 and almost to year 10

All I have to say...this has been a STRESSFUL year. I learned a lot, broke free mentally from a ton of harmful spaces. Things that were out of control for years are fixing. Trying to find myself, feels like I'm clawing out of a deep dark hole haha....please tell me there's hope in the upcoming year 😭 I need it

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u/8mxmoon8 — 11 days ago

Can't buy a parking permit--WAY too many error messages

I've literally never bought one before but...kinda need it seeing as I'll be on campus 5x a week. But no, error messages on every single permit lmfao

I don't get what I even did wrong. I mean I see ONE permit and it's OneCard like is that causing the problem??? idk

I emailed them anyway, I'm just curious if anyone has had this problem and why

u/8mxmoon8 — 12 days ago

Feeling so hopeless

I'm a premed student and I'm trying so hard to keep up with everything going on in school, work, and family life. I withdrew from orgo 1 (a prereq), and took it alone in the summer to attempt for an A.

I got a C-.
I have to retake it AGAIN and medical schools are already going to be so strict on everything else (retaking an intro orgo class three times is ridiculous). I'm so wildly disappointed in myself, and even more ashamed because I worked so hard all summer just to fail the final. That week I had gotten beat by my ex, rejected by my crush and robbed so I was working overtime. Barely slept and went late to the final because my car broke down on my way there. But all of these shouldn't be an excuse, I feel like I should know the concepts so well by that point that I wouldn't struggle. Retaking it is not a choice, but I don't know if I'm even suited to be a medical student. This tanked my science gpa pretty badly.

I feel like I'm just mentally gone and continually spiraling, and therapy hasn't contacted me back so I feel even shittier. Chronically daydreaming to the point where I can't even start my day and all time just slips away. Any advice on just...how to not give up on school and on my own personal goals? How to stop this chronic daydreaming and snap back to reality? I don't even know why any of this is happening, I'm exhausted lol

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u/8mxmoon8 — 14 days ago

C- Grade? What does it even mean

Hello, I am an undergrad transfer premed student. I'm aware this is a terrible grade for premed, I've never had a grade this low. Basically I finished organic chemistry I with a C-. I'm able to register for organic chemistry II. Excluding medical schools, I'm just having trouble figuring out if a C- = C in wayne state's grading or not, since I had above 70%. Am I able to even graduate with a C-? Or would I have to retake it down the line?

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u/8mxmoon8 — 14 days ago

I was gifted this little crystal YEARS ago, supposedly it's an aventurine? What do you think?

u/8mxmoon8 — 22 days ago

Is my carnelian stone real?

I got this as a gift and cherish it. I'm just very curious because there's marks all over. Is this a real carnelian? And how can I tell for future reference? Thank you

u/8mxmoon8 — 1 month ago

UC intern--scrub cap?

Hello,
I've been doing an internship with an urgent care for a couple of weeks now. Everyone has their hairs down while working with patients. I have my hair in a very tight high bun and secured to avoid contact with the patients. However, I'm incredibly germaphobic. I've been showering every single day and my skin + hair is starting to suffer. I think the scrub cap will help me not feel as disgusted, but I'm embarrassed about wearing it. I have to wear all black as per the urgent care standards. Any suggestions + comments about an intern observing in scrub cap gear? I think why I'm so embarrassed by it is because everyone wears typical loose scrubs but that's it. Nails long, accessories layers and everywhere. Hair done and out and about. No mask donned, sometimes no glove donned and even then no hand sanitizer is used after gloves are removed. I feel embarrassed being a shadow currently and being the only one to change my gloves + sanitize and wear a mask consistently AND now a scrub cap. I already feel so out of place but I'm disgusted by the germs...

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u/8mxmoon8 — 2 months ago

???

I just...I finally watched the ending and it's a big letdown. I mean, there's literally two things I want to know still that I feel is SO important. One, why did Scratch...MAKE A BRAIN SCANNER??? I feel like her taking part of the SOMA therapy was a cop-out because there's literally no fucking explanation. Okay, the dog had a brain tumor...the big spoiler was he made a brain scanner...and then everyone moved on. No, please explain it. I was thinking that maybe Scratch created the circus to escape his eventual death in the real world one way or another. But that feels like such a big detail of the lore in TADC to just leave out to interpretation.

And Caine...how was he still alive? Does this mean the void = recycling bin? And the whole blue ai thing, he let him go out into the void like, I can't really tell where that was supposed to go. Then he climbed through a door and for a sec I thought maybe it was the same door Pomni went through. No, Caine accessed free wifi from some cafe...what, next to the abandoned C&A office? Why is the computer still running?? I would've at least enjoyed the movie a bit more if maybe towards the end, there's a mini fucking clip of Grant walking to the computer. Or at least him remembering it. Implying it's just sitting up and running for over a decade w/ no help is just so weird to me idk.

JAX. I did tear up at the Pomni Jax thing. I felt like maybe Jax could finally reach out to her. But no, they're his dog. They're swimming in an aquarium. The only reason Pomni was glitching out like crazy was to show Caine's back. Fuck Jax ig. Pomni didn't accomplish anything in the end. I thought at least a scene of them all holding out their hands towards Jax and him finally acknowledging they're trying to reach out to him would happen...nah. "We're all in this together" except they give up on Jax after 10 minutes. Their happy ending was scrolling on facebook and reading their posts. That scene killed the immersion for me so much. It felt so awkward.

AND WHY do they talk so awkwardly throughout the entire movie? Ragatha has always been my favorite character. I was so excited to finally get some deep lore. Finally understand her dark secret that's been hinted at all show. "We used to be close friends once." Yet literally never showed them being close friends. What, were Jax and Ragatha close in that one scene where he was trying to push Ribbit away by asking about a movie? Ragatha was more friends w Ribbit than Jax, he made her promise and yes that ate her up. Can Ragatha have anything to herself as lore though? Or is she destined to forever have no backstory Goose? Also "I had a feeling but it still hurts to hear it" after Kinger said they were brain scans. I thought at LEAST Ragatha may have noticed inconsistencies or a possibility of this brain scanner theory would've opted for a flashback. But they never touch on this topic again. Gangle literally says "I don't know why I can't cry for him". I thought maybe we'd finally see how she got into the circus, or maybe was related to Jax in some way. Why does Jax have that fucking scene with Gangle? It literally explains nothing yet brings up more questions. Like thank you, I thought for a second that Jax actually cared about Gangle or at least confused for her. "Do you think Gangle can actually be happy?" "Meet me in my room later." ?????

This movie was genuinely a 6/10, an extra point just because I saw it in movies. But my god I'm so neutral on it. I remember how many people were afraid it would be like idhamaims where Pomni is the last one in the circus or Kinger has to linger in the circus alone or something happens to them. I didn't like how negative that theory was but it WOULD'VE BEEN A LOT BETTER with making an ending that could've given more depth to them. More remorse for loss. More searching for joy and contentment to that "stagnant life" lesson Goose wanted to display. Instead, everything just crumbled in our hands. Thank you for reading and thank god it's releasing so I can find some AO3 writers ready to rewrite the ending 🫣

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u/8mxmoon8 — 2 months ago

I have no idea if he likes me the way I like him

I (19F) have been talking to this guy (21M) for a while. Him and I are texting here and there but...he's honestly so distant and withdrawn. When we text, he's not afraid to call me a dozen pet names. He calls me babe or baby all the time. But it takes ages for us to text--the moment I start a conversation, he's not online for days. The moment we finish conversing, he's online 5x a day. I just assumed he didn't like me and we didn't really talk much after.

This last week alone has been so interesting. He asked for my instagram and followed me. We shared a cute moment over text and I thanked him for never letting me feel alone. He replied with "ilysm". I was taken back but at the same time, I assumed he meant it as a sweet reply than anything crush-like. I replied back with ilyt.

This is the same guy where anytime we picked classes to take together, he cancels it. The same guy where despite our classes being in the same building, we never see each other. The same guy who follows a bunch of girls and has mainly girl bestfriends. I feel like...like even if I love him, he'll never see me that way. I feel like he views me more like a funny friend or a sister. But the avoidance towards me hurts. He insists that I'm never bothering him, that he cares about me, that he'll always want me around. But I don't feel it. I don't know anymore.

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u/8mxmoon8 — 3 months ago

I (19F) was cheated on by my boyfriend twice (22M) in the past--now I can't stop fantasizing it

My boyfriend and I have been best friends together for a few years. We got super close and decided to date about 2 years ago. In the first year, he cheated on me twice by sexting other women incredibly dirty and disgusting things. He secretly indulged in a crazy amount of porn despite how uncomfortable I was. He mistreated me emotionally, physically and sexually. He rarely cares for my consent, and it feels like he constantly enjoys hurting me.

Well, I found out he cheated months after he finished sexting them. I didn't even get to see the messages from one of the girls, I just saw his dm begging her to take him back. It threw me entirely off the edge. When I confronted him, all he could tell me was "I don't remember" and zone out. I despised him, and couldn't be intimate or affectionate for so long. For the next year after, he's completely changed. He yells that he's not into other women anymore, has shown me proof of it here and there. Yet, I can't help it. I'm stuck between hating his guts and wanting to marry him. I came to a new problem too--I only feel like I'm able to cum or be intimate with him if I imagine him cheating on me. Or cum to the porn he used to indulge daily. I cry while masturbating but it's the only way I know how to be relatively normal again.

These days, I find myself incredibly spiteful. I attempted to sext several men to see how it felt for him. But I can't help but gag and cry through it. It feels entirely disgusting to be with anyone else but him. How was it so easy for him? Why did he do the things that he did? And, how do I know for sure that he isn't still doing those terrible things? And just hiding it?

I feel regretful now. I don't know what to do. I've been spending a lot of time trying to learn how to be myself again, especially without him. I still feel love for him, but the things he did has entirely betrayed every bit of trust I had. I find that even when he says he's not using porn or looking at other women, I'VE become that. When he says he's not sexting anyone, I've become that. I can't stop falling into this pit. Just me, trying to replicate the things he did to me to just have a SEMBLANCE of understanding for why it happened.

I don't even know what advice anyone can give me. I'm just exhausted. I feel like a terrible person.

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u/8mxmoon8 — 3 months ago

Just remember that there's no reason to dislike any part of you--that's just life!

u/8mxmoon8 — 3 months ago

Why?

I didn't like the suspense that Alice was an android the whole time.

I felt like the actual beauty behind her and Kara's relationship was that love, especially maternal love, can be beyond race :-/ I know that them both being androids show how androids can love just as humans can but...idk. I guess it makes sense because Alice has been outside all the time without food and water. Just never appealed to me as a plot twist. It would have been cool to see more human and android love in that way. How do you guys see it?

kinda nervous to post this because I don't want to start an argument 😭 no hate to anyone who did like it, just wanted to discuss as im getting back into the game

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u/8mxmoon8 — 3 months ago

I'm so sick of this man. I hold off peeing JUST because i don't want to deal with cleaning. I literally always bleach the damn toilet every single time i have to use it. Granted, the boys in my family sometimes leave stains on it and it drives me insane. But even when it looks clean, I still gotta clean the top, the sides, the inside 😪

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u/8mxmoon8 — 4 months ago