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I didn't have the words to describe the fatigue except for "I am exhausted and it doesn't end." I assumed that my blood feeling like crushed glass when I wake up was a depression symptom.

The horrific headache every night at 5PM where all I could hear was my blood rushing in my ears. The menstrual pain that felt like my entire lower half was being bulldozed. Writhing in pain before bed until 800mg of ibuprofen kick in and make it at least bearable enough to fall asleep. Waking up was the hardest part of my day, every single day.

People in my life knew about all of this and decided it was a lifestyle issue.

"You're just tired because you drink all those energy drinks."

"You just need to fix your diet."

"You're sleeping too much. Oversleeping causes fatigue, too, you know."

"Low-functioning depression doesn't mean you get to skip out on things. You have to function at all."

"Sounds like you're just stressed. Have you tried meditating?"

I know it's my responsibility to get myself checked out. I do. Im still mad. Im mad because if my pain had been treated with any kind of respect I would have gone sooner. I wouldnt have tried it all, the diet, the meditation, cutting out caffeine. If anyone in my life had listened to me instead of brushing me off and blaming me and trivializing my symptoms I would have thought maybe it's a bigger issue. And I wouldn't have been in this much pain for this long.

My script has a woman crouched and praying, and I want the next shot to cut (sort of jarringly) to another woman crouched over a bassinet. I want scenes to be shot so that the first scene ends, then the second woman is in the same stance as the first woman. I am frustrating myself trying to describe this.

Im not describing it well, and the only example I can remember of the same technique is after the tanning bed scene from Final Destination 3, where there is an aerial shot of the tanning beds and then it cuts very suddenly to 2 coffins in the same place of the tanning beds. Please help...

Hi all,

I am a creative writer from Shreveport, LA, and I am trying to branch out into different mediums of creativity. I have never made a film before but I have always wanted to-- this year I have the means to (time and people especially), so I figured why not make a short film for Louisiana Film Prize, which is right in my backyard?

I have a few questions about the logistics of making a short film in general. If I can't get them answered here, I will certainly email them to the people who actually run LFP. But I am involved with the arts council that runs it and they have a thousand better things to do than answer questions that I can potentially outsource to Reddit, lol.

Equipment:

1. Generally-- what do I need, hardware-wise? My phone is not an option for recording audio or visual, as it is a $50 Motorola from Walmart that takes GREAT pictures but TERRIBLE videos. Otherwise, what am I not thinking of and what recommendations do you guys have for cameras/mics? I am in college and self-sufficient so I do not have a huge budget but I'm hoping to look at least a little like I know what I'm doing.
2. What about software? I'm not experienced with video-editing, but I'm tech-savvy in the sense that you can hand me just about any computer program and I can figure it out.

Budget:

1. Besides the obvious equipment, costuming (it is a period piece), labor (buying lunch for my good friends who were excited to act in/work on my film for free), any kind of software subscription I may need, is there anything else I should be prepared for financially?

THE BIG ONE - COPYRIGHT

1. If I'm not making money off this film except for the infinitesimally tiny chance that I might win the festival prize, what kind of brands can be displayed in my piece? What kind of music can I use?? That one (music) is important to me, especially for this specific concept of mine. I couldn't find ANYTHING on the LFP Festival page about it, so I was wondering if there's a general, understood standard for these kinds of indie short film festivals.

I THINK that's all I have. I will have about a year to make this film but I am hoping to get the kinks worked out ASAP. Thank you all in advance!

Hi all. I am 20 years old, have always had an absurdly normal/regular cycle, a perfect 30 days, moderate bleeding, minimal cramping. I have never missed one since I was 12 (except for once, an unexpected pregnancy in Oct 2024, which ended in miscarriage at ~5 weeks). However I have also been sexually active since I was 16.

I went through a breakup in February and decided to go completely celibate. It has been a little over 4 months, which is the longest I have gone since losing my virginity. My period was way out of wack on its timing (I didn't even get one in March). I attributed it to stress about the breakup even tho my cycle had been completely regular through months of homelessness and years of abuse.

April & May periods were uneventful, but definitely irregular in when they decided to start (at least comparatively to previously, which had been like clockwork).

I got my period again yesterday, but it was odd:

1. There was one full day of heavy spotting before it actually started (like, just RIGHT before you can really call it bleeding). The only other time I would ever have spotting at all was when I was getting implantation bleeding during my short-lived pregnancy.
2. It is HEAVY. A regular period for me is 2 or 3 regular tampons a day. Today I went through SIX super+ tampons and I still couldn't keep up and bled into my pants.
3. Extremely painful, especially when horizontal. I usually know that my period has started when my lower abdomen & lower back start radiating mild pain. Last night, it started and the pain woke me up from a dead sleep (and I sleep through full-volume alarms!!). I was writhing and crying in pain for an hour last night before Tylenol kicked in and made it bearable.
4. Pain in weird places?? My "cramps"(??) are radiating down into my legs, down into my knees and shins. It feels like the pain is in my bones even tho I know that's not possible. Its miserable. It's the worst in my hips right now, I feel like my pelvis is completely shattered.

I tried to narrow down all the things that could be causing this, but I'm not on any new medication or anything that could cause this, except that maybe my body doesn't like that I'm not having sex? I was having penetrative sex 2-4 times a week before and then suddnely none, so maybe it's shocked from the cold-turkey celibacy?

EDIT: I think I landed on Reggie !! Rex was a close second, but it felt a little too edgy/cool/triangular for someone with my degree of natural quadrilateral awkwardness haha. I REAAALLLY resonated with Reggie, so thanks all who suggested it.

Other favorites: Rocco, Roscoe, Brock, Burt, Geo, Block, Gram/Graham, Quade. ANYTHING suggesting Tangle or Tango as a middle name. (Didn't even occur to me.)

You guys are so smart and awesome!!!!!!!

OG post:

this is kind of dumb, but months ago my best friends and I started referring to ourselves as the shapes that represent us. im a rectangle. I turned 20 and had to change my display name on a bunch of stuff (it was "teen of style" haha) and I randomly wrote Rectangle.

but I've been posting and messaging and being referred to as Rectangle for a few months now, and I actually reeeeeaaallllly like being Rectangle.

I can't be Rectangle in real life though, because it sounds really dumb. Is there any kind of nickname I can offer people that has the same....I don't know....vibe? Sound? I really don't know what exactly I'm looking for, to be honest.

Something kind of blunt starting with an R, maybe. The R isn't mandatory but the bluntness is. Nothing complicated or elegant. Can be common or uncommon. Syllables don't matter. Definitely a boys name or at least androgynous.

I hope this is a worthwhile challenge and I apologize in advance

UPDATE I did report him to the driver when we stopped and she ended up removing him from the bus. She said it is greyhound policy to keep passengers safe when it comes to things like that. He caused kind of a scene but the driver handled it really professionally and I am very grateful for that. I hope there is somewhere I can shout her out for that.

Hi I'm pretty shaken right now sorry. I'm on the bus currently posting this because I don't know what to do

I'm on a trip from Shreveport LA to Lafayette LA on a bus heading towards New Orleans. i'm a young woman so I carry a safety weapon for stuff like this (taser) but this was different

There are only 4 people on the bus total. 3 women and 1 man. I didn't know that you dont actually have to sit in your assigned seating so I sat in the back where the ticket had me. this man sat in the aisle next to me and made conversation and then he laid down across the seats with his feet in the aisle and his head propped up looking at me and I knew he was creepy so I didn't look but from my periphery it looked like he might be masturbating. and then he snapped to get my attention and I'm dumb so I looked over and he pointed at his hardon showing throigh his pants and said 'it's big isn't it?" I didn't respond I just looked away and he kept going but eventually he fell asleep so I got up and moved to the front. I snapped a picture of him though

So what can I do about this I have like 4.5 more hours on this bus. is it worth it to tell the driver because I'm afraid that if she can't do anything and he knows I told her it might be dangerous

Thanks