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Image 1 — I present to you what I call the "The Garst Ghastlies"
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▲ 29 r/BadArchitecture

I present to you what I call the "The Garst Ghastlies"

Now that this builder/developer is on his last lot, I feel the need to document his crimes.

There is a strip of road that a small-time builder/developer in my city acquired sometime in the mid-2010s. This builder/developer divided it into lots and slowly started building homes. This is their story. The exteriors are presented in chronological order.

2014 - not so bad, questionable use of materials, but this was probably a bought plan that they put a little "sparkle" on with the stonework. Not sure about the gable return, but OK.

2015 - um, what in the superfluous gable is happening here with this porch!? And the scale of the primary porch gable to the house and the tiny columns is at best questionable. (This will become a signature!) Still testing out ye ol' gable return, but with less success!

2021 - experiments in windows. I cannot explain how almost brutalist this house is in person. The photo doesn't quite capture the scale of all the aspects correctly. The windows are small, the gray expansive and flat. The garage portion is also much larger than the left-hand side.

2026 "1" - Worrying about proper scale is for LOSERS! Don't worry about scale of any sort. Scale of porch to house. Scale of porch gable to literally anything. Scale of tiny little stick legs, I mean columns holding up Capt. Beefcake the Porch. Also, don't worry about placement of things. Place that door BARELY under the porch roof. Just center that second-story window without regard to anything else happening around it. Bring back the gable return as a full return on the primary structure. Oh, and we are back putting a little sparkle in with stone corners!

2026 "2" - the culmination of our builder/developer's life work (and the last lot on this stretch of land). We have Capt. Beefcake the Porch's brother, Lt. Chonky the Porch, with almost invisible undersized columns holding it up. Oh, and the 2nd-story window is again centered with no regard to its surroundings. AND look! TINY little jail cell windows! A little new detail on Lt. Chonky with some sort of trim action there at the bottom. Capped off with a little bit of that stone corner sparkle, and it's a winner for sure!

u/MI6Monkey — 5 days ago
▲ 146 r/roanoke

RidgeYaks.

First time at the stadium since the name change. Did no one check what RidgeYaks sounds like over the system. It sounds like Salem Rejects.

I still don't understand how poorly done this rebrand was. And I work in branding.

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u/MI6Monkey — 1 month ago
▲ 10 r/Perimenopause

Life long chronic depression and anxiety actually improving in perimenopause...or have I finally just gone off the deep end?

I have seen a lot about how Perimenopause has brought on crippling depression for A LOT of women here. Which I can empathize with as a person who's spent her life with chronic severe depression with a bonus helping of anxiety, and it hurts to see everyone going through something that I have lived my entire life with. So please don't think I'm trying to rub salt into wounds or being insensitive here.

BUT. In the last few months, I've had to start weaning off my head meds because things that have worked for years stopped having any effect, and my old ADHD med was actively making my mental health and physical health worse. I've been fully off head meds for over a month now, and I feel better than I have in YEARS. I say this as someone who's been really unwell when off my meds in the past, like given the choice to go back on meds or be institutionalized, really unwell.

Now I'm actually terrified that this will go away, that my hormones will move on to another stage, and I'll have to go back on all the things. Obviously, that would not be the end of the world, but I am enjoying having a full spectrum of feelings, and none of them are leading me to want to off myself. Also, no lie, the sex is so so much more enjoyable and fulfilling off of my meds.

Has anyone else had this sort of thing happen to them? The clearing up of chronic mental health issues instead of the onslaught of them?

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u/MI6Monkey — 2 months ago
▲ 2 r/Perimenopause

This is a rant, not a question.

The tap shut off at the end of January. I had been super regular timing-wise, but not regular in length and flow for the last 2 years. Ok dokey, we sort of keep watch, right? I know this is not permanent yet, so it'll pull some bullshit soon. Nothing all late winter and early spring until 2 weeks before my first vacation in YEARS. 2 weeks ago, I very clearly ovulated for the first time since Jan. Today, the Monday before my Thursday departure, I am spotting for the first time since my pre-teens.

So basically, even in perimenopause, everything will just adjust enough to f' shit up. I'm currently expecting something akin to The Horses of Bruinen (LoTR) to happen just before I get in the car to leave later on this week. This, in short, is bullshit.

There is a historical reference as to the rage involved: I had my first period, in middle school, on the first vacation with just my mom after my parents' divorce...on damn waterpark day. It was a tampon or a huge waterlogged pad. I'm 13 and in one of my first "grown up" bikinis (aka I had tiny boobs that would fill a little something), a giant early 90s pad is out of the question...so after about a half a box of tampons and a very frustrated mom and little brother later, we did make it out. There was crying. Both me, my mom, and god probably. So it's going out like it's going in, except the tampons are much easier now.

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u/MI6Monkey — 2 months ago