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Mine is when someone scares stray animals for no reason. I have this friend that I don’t get along with anymore, and she always scares stray cats and barks at them for no reason.

Last night she barked at kittens and scared them causing them to flee too close to a street.

So this show started off with the premise of best friends supporting this one best friend on his journey to find closure and justice for his dad.

So how did we end up here exactly? It’s like a river dale situation.

I saw someone say they couldn’t get themselves to finish season 5 because the pogues were turning out to bad people. I definitely disagree on that, but to an extent.

If you take each character, look at them and their actions you’d find that the person they were in seasons 1-3 clashes with who they were in 4-5. It’s very unsatisfying, if that’s their attempt at character development it’s not good character development.

How has jj had any character development exactly? Or any growth, or closure. None of his problems were fixed, many things were left unanswered and he’s the same person he was in season 1 to season 4. He’s the only consistent character and I’m not sure that’s a good thing at this point. Nothing about his character felt satisfying to me, because he was interesting and has a good base and motivations but he just runs around in circles in season 4. The only major change I saw in him was when he got with Kiara, he had previously thought she’s too good for him and then accepted being with her and….that’s about it. Then he died with his “wish”, which was Kiara? The pogues all being together? They were all together from the beginning and loved him and if the difference is Kiara that’s some very weak character development.

Same jj who would do anything for his friends (family), and is very reckless in season 1. Is the same jj in season 4 who would also do anything for his friends (family) and is very reckless. Being with Kiara is literally the only difference and this may be a hot take but I don’t see jj having a romantic relationship as a good thing.

Then you look at the rest of the characters. We got so little Cleo that I feel like I know Sofia more than her despite her being an integral role in the show.

They took pope, This poor boy with dreams about going to college and making his family proud and made him a miserable felon stoner (THEN he got a sorta happy ending but it’s not the one he’s wanted and worked for for years). His friends barely seem to care about his future anyway outside of jj and pope ruined it for him anyway only for jj to tell him he wanted to be shot instead (and nobody seemed to care! Jj wishing to die and drinking constantly isn’t a big deal to them I guess).

Sarah didn’t interact with wheezie, even though she seemed to have a good relationship with her. She somehow seems to be cool with rafe, despite her hating him previously rightfully. And teen pregnancy?? Watching season 4 it feels like John b pushed the whole thing more so than her wanting it. Then John b puts her in danger again and again and she just trots after him and rafe. I thought Sarah was supposed to stand up for herself, but they just fucked her over and she took it. She literally threw away her whole life and family for John b and this is what he does for her. I don’t even wanna talk about baby jj that’s just stupid.

John b, who has also had no character development! He goes from throwing his friends’s life’s on the line in the first season for gold and he does it in the last season as well. He’s learnt nothing. He lost his father twice, his home, jj, almost got the death sentence, put the love of his life in danger and yet he’s so dense he learned nothing.

Kiara. Kiara starts off as this girl who’s not afraid to stand up for herself and cares about social issues. We almost entirely forgot the social issues part in seasons 3-4, and from 3-5 she revolves so much around jj and barely about anything she’s done or wants. She studies biology in the end, (somehow? Money probably). Meanwhile her friends are settling down together. This is not me saying she should’ve been with someone, enough of that. But she should’ve moved away and got some new faces and a fresh start away from all of that. But she’s stuck with her friends dating eachother and having a kid named after her dead ex boyfriend. She should’ve left!

Also, rafe? Topper? Guess they run around in daisies or whatever. How come they get to just simply leave all that they’ve done. Guess everyone forgives everyone yay! I know you made my life literal hell for years but because Jonas and Josh pate don’t wanna work on their show properly and wanna use AI I’ll just be on relatively good terms with you.

If anyone should’ve gotten a happy ending it’s jj don’t even get me started on that. Like what message are you trying to send killing him the way that you did? The villains of the show got off better. Somehow he’s the only one with the tragic ending in a teen drama Netflix show of all shows.

Overall I’m just confused. What am I supposed to conclude from this? Honestly I’m just glad it’s over. There could’ve been a season six where baby jj becomes like actual jj, ward rises from the dead again, rafe gets baptized and repents for his sins, Cleo gets 3 minutes of screen time, pope becomes snoop dog, Kiara is still having flashbacks about jj ten years later, and topper opens a charity for the poor!! The possibilities are endless.

Not all kinds of sick, I have to point that out. But when I get a cold, or something of the sort, my brain shuts off everything except for that sick discomfort, and in a way that’s comforting on its own. Does that make sense?

Imagine not thinking, not even a little bit, and being completely distracted by something else. I don’t know but that’s pretty comfortable for me (not the most comfortable. But weirdly serene).

Does anyone else experience that too?

There are so many plot holes, as many of us are aware. So many abandoned plot lines, disregarded things, neglected characters, there are a lot of issues with this show that previously felt flawless to me in the first season except for being very dramatic in some aspects, but enjoyable.

To start, why make all of the boys have a crush on Kiara? What the hell was that? Jj implied that he tried something with her in season one and “that door was closed”, pope got rejected but they got together anyway, John b kissed her, like wtf is this? Guess fuck “no pogue on pogue macking”? Why make them be weird like that?

More on that too, if the plan was gonna be jj/cleo, why have jj hit on Kiara a ton and imply he liked her? And if they were fine with jj/kiara, how? When she didn’t show any romantic interest in jj before season 3? Why have absolutely no spine and do whatever fans want when fans are never satisfied.

That’s just one thing. Another thing is John b being very much a mini big John but no one calls him out. No one acknowledges how much pope sacrificed for them and got nothing for those four years. No one seemed to care jj >!was depressed and (implied to be) suicidal especially in season 4.!< Sarah’s miracle pregnancy in season 5, Kiara’s sudden intense stupidity in season 5 (>!she was grieving but come on!<), no one barely showing >!any emotion towards Jj’s death except Kiara!<. Also, in season 3 when Sarah cheated it barely took anything for everyone to forgive her.

And that nonsense ending!! Guess everyone just got along with the power of friendship and outer banks magic. I understand you wanna tie up the show and have it be a happy ending but that was just purely nonsensical. The icing on the cake would’ve been topper officiating the wedding begrudgingly, Kiara being the flower girl and rafe being the best man. Like these are the levels of ridiculousness we’re getting at.

I mean I don’t need to say this but what logical or illogical reason is there for >!Groff to kill jj? (And what mental gymnastics do you have to do to decide this is how you want him to got out?) How come they just abandon Luke after everything in season 4, Jj learned nothing and just died tragically.!< We barely know anything about cleo, we get more Sofia than her somehow and Sofia just randomly appeared. rafe just got possessed by a different soul in the last two seasons and everyone just accepted him?

Also notice how fast Cleo was deported but how the rest of the guys can just get away with shit? I wanna say it’s subtle social commentary but I really don’t wanna be giving the pates too much credit. No way that was intended like that. They really abandoned those topics anyway, all that talk about classism and racism died around the end of season 2.

Every season since season 3 it felt like another person wrote the characters. They were never consistent, or followed sensible character development.

All the female characters being massively neglected. Season one is pretty much about John b, two a lot about pope, three Sarah (but mainly to do with topper and John b), >!four about jj!<, and five about Kiara (but mostly her thinking about jj). Can’t they have their own arcs? Like I understand Kiara’s whole thing was her >!grief!< and that was important to show, but they’d never do that with the male characters. I mean they literally made pope and John b >!seem to grieve less when it made no sense. But all they can do with Kiara is just grieve about jj. Think about jj, mention jj. Which like I said makes sense but I feel like it’s only because she’s Kiara.!< They cannot write women, they just can’t.

And for the love of god, can you not hire an Arabic translator?? There’s no way you can’t find a single person or at the very least use Google Translate, do you just not respect the language at all? When I tell you I was laughing my ass off as someone who knows Arabic. WTF was that bullshit!

Soooo much AI. Sooooooooo much unnecessary use of AI.

To me, from season 3, to 5 it felt like they fed ChatGPT a vague outline of the plot, and told it to spit out ideas. And ChatGPT, not knowing the show and the characters like they do just hallucinated and shat out all that. And the writers absolutely licked it up. Like hell yeah, let me ruin my beloved show with my planet destroying machine, yay! Netflix is becoming second screen content, I doubt anyone will pay that much attention anyway, and we’ll just get richer!

I’m sure you’ve come across this person online. They’ll say for example X happened! So you’ll ask where they got that information from, and they’d either not answer or deflect. Anonymity makes people so comfortable with spreading misinformation and rumors.

There’s this one on going weird drama I’ve been following for the past few years, and to this day, I still see hundreds of comments claiming they know what’s going on because of how things look, and they make up shit as well. When nowhere on the internet will you find any actual legitimate proof. Just a lot of he said she said and people claiming to know people but not showing any proof of that whatsoever. I’m starting to feel like crazy person.

I tell myself it’s children or just illiterate people, because why else would you take what some random stranger said online as fact without further proof? But it’s really depressing either way. Media literacy has taken a huge hit in the past few years, we all know that. But it’s gotten to the point that people are relying on tik tok comments for their research.

God help us all.

I’ve fixed and ruined and fixed my sleep schedule so many times in the last two weeks. Yesterday I woke up at 10 am, then couldn’t sleep at all at night. So I didn’t, till I accidentally passed out around 1 pm and woke up at 7 pm and ruined my sleep schedule again. It’s been like this over and over and over… not to mention weird nightmares have been frequent.

Is anybody else going through this right now? This shit sucks.

If you haven’t heard, the stranger things writers were apparently using AI during the last season. And I just found out today the co creator of outer banks, Josh pate is an AI super fan, I’m talking like on his knees mouth wide open for the AI data centers.

He has more tweets about AI than his own show. And I would’ve said maybe it’s not his account, because he hadn’t linked it in any other places or anything, but it’s pretty consistent with who he follows on instagram, his brother, and events about the show. Bro, I remember I used to love outer banks up until season 3, funny. Season 3 is right around when AI was popular. It’s also when the characters started acting out of character.

I’m so fucking sick of this shit. This is the beginning, many other shows and movies outside of Netflix will also use AI and it will be a more accepted thing. It’s already happening. I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to live in a world of AI written shows and movies.

What. The. Fuck. Genuinely, how is a “professional writer” letting AI write for them. Smh, what the fuck is this year.

I’m tired.

Edit: allegedly, just felt the need to drop that in. But imo based on what I’ve found all that I’ve said is very very likely.

So I’m going to Istanbul later this month, and I know most don’t speak English there, and I wanna learn Turkish because I’m planning on going there a lot. So this is what I learned so far:

Hoşbulduk, merhaba, evet, hayır, bu, lütfen, paket, teşekkürler, sağol, sağolun, tamam, şeker, pantolon, gömlek, kolay gelsin, su, and the numbers one to ten.

Is this generally enough to get me around for now? Or do I need to learn more? I’m trying to first tackle down the most important/words I will use most. I’m finding it easy so far because Turkish is similar to Arabic, and I speak Arabic. But it’s definitely not easy to learn a new language.

So I’m visiting Istanbul later this month, and I’ll be at a lot of the most popular malls, I’ll be staying at the hotels there as well.

What are some good breakfast franchises common there? Because I thought about just buying a sandwich from the market there but feel like that would get boring. Also, I don’t want like pancakes and pastries because they never fill me up.

So what are some good places with generally healthy breakfast options?

It is an unsettling thought, but I’m like scared of it and it genuinely makes me uneasy. Idk why. Like a lot of things are scary but this really gets to me for some reason.

I remember some mom coming online to admit that she shaved her son’s head as punishment for something, and it was so wrong to me that I almost felt physically sick. What do you mean you forcibly shaved his head?? What could he have done to deserve that? I’m sure some other discipline methods would’ve been better.

One time I even saw in a movie, a lady get her head shaved for the chance to win some money. It was fake, just a movie. But seeing her unsure face, and clippers getting rid of all of her hair slowly made me turn off the movie. I couldn’t watch.

I don’t know why it specifically unsettles me so much compared to other things, does anybody else feel that way?

I had the weirdest dream last night, I had so many pets. Two birds, an owl, a weird small rhino, a hedgehog, and all of them would die Within a day and rot. But one bird stayed on my shoulder the whole time.

They stayed in a room in the house downstairs, and I’d visit them to feed them. If I forgot to go down in time, the next time I’d come they’d be almost dead, or already dead and rotting. It kept happening over and over.

Then I woke up, and for some reason in my head the bird is real, so I was grateful I didn’t kill him. Then I’d sleep again and wake up one more time, realize it was a dream, and just feel really disturbed.

I don’t even know what to think. I’ve never dreamed of something like that.

So I’m Muslim, and so is my family. My cousin told me about her little cousin who’s 12, who spoke to her about feeling unsure about the religion.

She said that she feels like she doesn’t want to be Muslim when she grows up, and that she isn’t sure she believes in any religion. I thought it really wasn’t a big deal.

But apparently, people in the family have been gasping and acting as if she said something blasphemous. Apparently it’s this huge unacceptable deal to them.

I can’t believe that. Like why would I care if someone in the family is doubting the religion and wants to leave it in the future, much less a child. Would you rather they do it in secret? Like seriously, even if her family members think that she’s going to hell or whatever aren’t we all responsible for our own decisions??

What are you gonna do, convince a 12 year old to continue being Muslim? How would you even do that, would it matter in the long run? If you scare her into staying, she’s just gonna hate it more. That’s not good.

I believe that everyone is responsible for their own decisions. I don’t have 100% proof that my religion is real, so why would I force it on someone? Even a loved one. If they don’t wanna believe in it, then they don’t have to. It has nothing to do with me

I certainly know how fucking horrible it is to be forced to do things. It took me literal years to like wearing the hijab. It’s supposed to be a decision you make, but as soon as I got my period, at 12, my mother forced me. I absolutely despised it and became extremely depressed and insecure for years because of it. I wanted to take it off so bad but was so scared of being shamed by my family. I needed to do a lot of internal work to begin to accept myself in the first place, have my identity be my identity and not my looks, realize that the hijab dosent affect my life in any negative way, and just being able to make that decision myself. If anything it made me put less importance on looks.

If only they would’ve let me naturally wanna wear the hijab (or not) like many other girls I knew, instead of telling me I’m going to hell if I don’t wear it and I have no choice. I didn’t even care back then, you cannot convince me of this spiritual possible after life when I was a depressed 12 year old, it only made me worse.

And maybe I feel so neutral towards her (my cousin’s cousin) because I don’t know her personally, so I don’t really care if she chooses to have a different life. But they’re making it as if it’s crazy and shameful that she even asked a question. Let the girl live!!! I can’t imagine having that shoved down my throat as a kid again, it genuinely takes away so much from your life, to be forced into something that you don’t necessarily believe in or care about. It feels absolutely consuming, like nothing else matters if the stakes are so high like that.

they think they’re doing her a favor. Because god forbid someone starts questioning things instead of mindlessly following after them.

It’s natural to be curious. I mean, they could’ve spun it into a thing where they tell her all the good things about Islam and answer her questions and see if she still believes or not. Since she’s 12, and definitely not very knowledgeable. But instead they took the shaming route, like many religious people. Smh.

Between the ages of 12-16, I used to write for hours at night. What about? Either how my day went, or I’d make up a story with made up characters. I filled tons of notebooks, and soon went to use a tablet and a stylus instead, and filled more pages.

Most of it is illegible, looking back on what I have left. But I used to loose so much time doing it. My hand would get tired, I’d drain entire pens, and it was genuinely entertaining.

I look back on those days a little sad now, because putting the obsession behind, it’s not the worst way to spend your free time. I don’t think I have an attention span good enough to be doing this these days, college just drains so much of me that I keep wanting to spend my breaks as stress free as possible and use my brain for nothing that dosent interest me. Even though I know that’s probably bad. Writing that much and hurting my hand just dosent interest me anymore.

I mean, I am writing this, so clearly maybe I need to start journaling again or whatever I used to write about.

If you have a lot of things going on in you’re life, and tend to feel things really strongly like I do, but don’t wanna be venting about it to the people around you, you should really start writing too.

I have a weird memory, I mostly don’t remember things, expect for odd stuff my brain hyper fixates on.

I’m always the person who remembers an unimportant detail, or forgets a whole event happened that I participated in. I cannot tell you the amount of times I’ve had a conversation with family and friends about stuff I apparently did that I remember barely anything of.

I don’t remember much of my childhood, it was just…uneventful, okay. I also blacked out a lot of high school and some middle school years because I was severely depressed back then, and I realized now that I really don’t remember much of my life.

If someone would ask me about my life story or what happened with me or whatever, I’d be quiet. Idk? What am I supposed to say? I only have irrelevant specific memories. I could you give you like three sentences.

Is that a normal thing? If not, whoever’s out there like me, I guess we should…take the time to make today count? Idk, I tried to end this in a positive way and this is the best I could come up with.