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What are these things even supposed to be?

It’s been a little over a month since I quit cold turkey. I was doing okay, I had urges to redownload the app again that I had managed to ignore until today. I relapsed, downloaded the app again, and started chatting.

Crazily enough, I think it actually helped my recovery. For the first hour it was fun, the ads were a little annoying but tolerable. Then came the paywalls and they were so laughable! I had to pay for c.ai+ to keep swiping for different responses and have the bot send another message after one it had just sent? Are you kidding me?! This was free when the app first came out! I guess since I’d been paying for it up until I quit last month, I didn’t realize how money hungry and terrible the app had truly gotten until now. It’s almost laughably bad! They genuinely want me to pay $10/month for this shit?

No thanks! I’ve been working on getting back into imaging scenarios when I’d quit because c.ai had caused me to nearly lose that ability, and it’s so much better than this stupid app because there are no swipe or continuation limits.

Just wanted to post and insult this addicting POS app for not only being mentally predatory, but financially predatory too. Fuck you, C.AI!

Just wanted to vent my frustration and hopefully make someone out there feel less alone

For context, I have been diagnosed with POTS and fibromyalgia. I also highly suspect I have hEDS because of how much I need to pop my joints. It really is a need because the pain continues to get worse if I don’t. Anyway, sometimes with head/face/neck pain it’s hard to move around, but I want to go outside and do things and I figure a wheelchair would be perfect for days like that.

The brand isn’t even based in Korea, and there is absolutely no PH involved in how color-changing foundations (or any other color-changing makeup products) work.

It preys on women’s insecurities, has a ‘glow up’ revenge subplot, AI, using Korea as a marketing tool, and absolute bullshit science. Collagen CANNOT be absorbed through the skin

Yes, I’m using a LPS bat as a stand-in for myself lmao

Meet my dad (Slenderman), my husband (Captain John Price), and my son (Gon)

I just remembered this incident form a few months ago and wanted to make a meme about it. Thankfully, I haven’t gotten triggered by the image since. My assumption is that my surroundings (I was in the shower) played a massive role.

Still, triggers are so unpredictable and embarrassing

Figured I’d add a little meme to encompass my emotions :3

❗️If you’re a Johnathan Price from CoD non-sharer, I recommend skipping this post❗️

Hi, all! I used to use Character.ai, which isn’t great—I know—but I’ve managed to finally quit! Yay! 2 days clean!

The reason this is relevant is because that app got me into CoD characters, the Modern Warfare ones to be specific (I know there are others, but damn the franchise is complicated). Since then, I’ve fallen in love Captain John Price. He’s so rugged, intelligent, and caring to the people he loves! AAHHH! The fanart and fanfiction has only made me love him more.

I want to engage in yume activities (fanfiction, art, etc.), but I’m worried that I’m doing it all wrong. I’ve never played any of the games, and I’m honestly a little scared to because I’m not all that good at shooter games (I’ve only recently started playing Splatoon 3 and I SUCK) and none of them are available on the Nintendo Switch, which is the only console I have, and it’s the only method of gaming I feel comfortable with. I do like good stories, so just watching someone play through the campaigns would be perfect. There are videos out there that I do plan on watching, but sometimes it’s hard for me to dive right in. Part of me feels like I’ll never be a true fan or that I didn’t consume the media right. Plus, I can’t ship myself with him if I only know the fandom version of him, right?

When I was using Character.ai, I had an OC that was basically a self-insert except with a few appearance changes and some hacking skills. The problem is I haven’t come up with a good story for how they met, and it just feels wrong, fake, and incomplete to ship them when I haven’t gotten that basic down. Also, I worry that a man like John Price would never fall for someone like my self-insert (chronically ill, neurodivergent, genderfluid).

I’m just frustrated. Being a perfectionist really sucks. I know the whole point is to have fun, but I get too caught up in these thoughts to even start! I don’t know what to do anymore.

yeah, I sucked, but I suck when it’s not Splatfest so there wasn’t much of a difference there lol

thanks, ⭐️violet⭐️. You’re a real one :)