Endless Ends

[Endless_Night]

I don’t think it’s weird at all.
Don’t most people feel this way?

Not so as you'd notice.

Maybe people keep up a plethora of more casual relationship.

Which is fine. Just not my thing.

 

[Endless_Night]

Not at all. I'm a very open, social, and gregarious person. However, while I'm ready to know I'm actually quite difficult to close to. I've got friends I've had since highschool that I'm still extremely close with. The circle of friends I've made as an adult are the ride or die variety. I'm good at the light, casual acquaintance game, but close friends are hard cock to come by.

Ah,

Glad to know I'm not the only one. Occasionally, it feels like I am an island in a sea of gregariousness.

I don't have a lot of social capital. People interaction can be energy sapping. So relationships that aren't pertinent just - cut into my needed alone time. Boy, does that sound terrible.

Pretty much any relationship I bother to keep up is ride or die.

Lit is the most social place I inhabit. Even that I have to curtail when it gets too much.

 

[Firefly_Dancer]

Is it weird that I only have two relationship gears - close or casual acquaintance? Is it weird that I take the close so seriously? Is it weird, that if I get close, it takes something catastrophic to disrupt the connection? Is it weird, the only relationships I keep up are the ones I keep for life?

#thingstoponder

I'm pretty much the same way. I don't do anything half ass including relationships. I only have a few people close enough that I feel they really know "me". Needless to say I'm not a social butterfly. People seem to enjoy asking me for advice though, which is weird because I'm told I have one hell of a resting bitch face.

 

[Indie_]

but close friends are hard cock to come by.

Please tell me that was unintentional.

 

[MindYaBitness]

Please tell me that was unintentional.

Nope, apparently "cock" follows "hard" so often that my phone just adds it in. You're welcome

 

[deft]

Nope, apparently "cock" follows "hard" so often that my phone just adds it in. You're welcome

That's kinda

 

[LaisDeMarieDeFrance]

Is it weird that I only have two relationship gears - close or casual acquaintance? Is it weird that I take the close so seriously? Is it weird, that if I get close, it takes something catastrophic to disrupt the connection? Is it weird, the only relationships I keep up are the ones I keep for life?

#thingstoponder

Not weird at all! I have close friends from elementary school, college, and jobs. When you find good people to whom you can bare your soul, you keep them.

 

[LadyLascivious1]

Is it weird that I only have two relationship gears - close or casual acquaintance? Is it weird that I take the close so seriously? Is it weird, that if I get close, it takes something catastrophic to disrupt the connection? Is it weird, the only relationships I keep up are the ones I keep for life?

#thingstoponder

Are you me?

I think we’ve talked about this before. Once someone crosses over into the category of “my people,” it’s a lifetime appointment. It’s a pretty small group, and I don’t let people into it easily. It doesn’t mean we talk every day, or even regularly. It just means we can always pick up exactly where we need to. I cherish those people and protect them fiercely.

And the couple who made it there but are no longer in my life? I still feel the scars. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing. It means they changed me, possibly in both good and bad ways. Growth and change are some of the best parts of life, and I learn things about myself from every person I truly connect with.

 

[EyesOnHers]

I don't have a lot of social capital. People interaction can be energy sapping. So relationships that aren't pertinent just - cut into my needed alone time. Boy, does that sound terrible.

Pretty much any relationship I bother to keep up is ride or die.

I relate to this so much.

 

[LaisDeMarieDeFrance]

It's not the best paced or directed by any means, but it kicked off the Bela style vampire which is so appreciated and iconic.

Eta: Van Sloan was wonderful in the role, but my favorite is Lionel Barrymore in Mark of the Vampire (1935). MGM didn't own the rights, so he wasn't exactly Van Helsing.

Same functional character, but he was, instead, Professor Zelen. And Bella is Count Mora.

The only place I can watch Mark of the Vampire for free is on YouTube and the dude making commentary sounds just like Ed Kemper, I swear to God. I just can't!

 

[Endless_Night]

Are you me?

Ĝemeloj!

I'm practicing my Esperanto.

I think we’ve talked about this before. Once someone crosses over into the category of “my people,” it’s a lifetime appointment. It’s a pretty small group, and I don’t let people into it easily. It doesn’t mean we talk every day, or even regularly. It just means we can always pick up exactly where we need to. I cherish those people and protect them fiercely.

We have talked about it before, and Every Single Sentence of this.

And the couple who made it there but are no longer in my life? I still feel the scars. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing. It means they changed me, possibly in both good and bad ways. Growth and change are some of the best parts of life, and I learn things about myself from every person I truly connect with.

I try to find something in every experience and every relationship that adds to my sum of knowledge and revelation of self. Recovery time from a loss can be brutal though. While I may not show much in the way of outwards signs of distress, my mope is of silly duration.

 

[Endless_Night]

The only place I can watch Mark of the Vampire for free is on YouTube and the dude making commentary sounds just like Ed Kemper, I swear to God. I just can't!

I had to google Ed Kemper.

Ummm, maybe wait until it's available elsewhere?

 

[Endless_Night]

*flump*

Hair pets would not come amiss. Just sayin'.

 

[Endless_Night]

Four. More. Days.

 

[hotoldrguy]

Four. More. Days.

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[EyesOnHers]

Enny, hope you don't mind me asking a horror themed question on your thread.
Will delete if you do.

Currently sitting outside in the cold with my coat hood up made me think of restricted vision.
I think this is why horrors set in cold/freezing climates are more scary to me... you do not have your peripheral senses.

For example, I would rather be caught up in JC's Vampires or KB's Near Dark worlds than JC's The Thing or 30 Days of Night.

Not talking about day v night... just that you feel so much more vulnerable with that blinkered vision.
Only me?

 

[hotoldrguy]

Enny, hope you don't mind me asking a horror themed question on your thread.
Will delete if you do.

Currently sitting outside in the cold with my coat hood up made me think of restricted vision.
I think this is why horrors set in cold/freezing climates are more scary to me... you do not have your peripheral senses.

For example, I would rather be caught up in JC's Vampires or KB's Near Dark worlds than JC's The Thing or 30 Days of Night.

Not talking about day v night... just that you feel so much more vulnerable with that blinkered vision.
Only me?

I hate wearing anything that messes with my peripheral vision. Really freaks me out.

 

[Endless_Night]

Currently sitting outside in the cold with my coat hood up made me think of restricted vision.

First, let me say I'm rather envious of it being cold enough where you are to wear a coat.

Not talking about day v night... just that you feel so much more vulnerable with that blinkered vision.
Only me?

Second, hmm. Interesting. Not something that's crossed my mind.

But. I do have a memory of being about five, sitting on my great-great-grandmother's bed one evening. A horror movie came on just as she was pulling on her nightgown, obscuring her vision.

The movie opened with a woman taking an item out of the closet. A pair of eyes was revealed behind the clothing, just as her shadow was shown pulling the nightgown over her head, obscuring her vision.

Sent me screaming down the hall.

So . . . yes, I think that would bother me.

As would not being able to hear, I think. That too, in its way, is a peripheral sense.

 

[LaisDeMarieDeFrance]

I watched The Wicker Man (1973) this morning. I'm assuming it has nothing to do with the newest movie. But it did have Sir Christopher Lee singing, so I enjoyed it.

 

[Endless_Night]

I watched The Wicker Man (1973) this morning. I'm assuming it has nothing to do with the newest movie. But it did have Sir Christopher Lee singing, so I enjoyed it.

That is, indeed, a good one.

There was a 2006 remake. Which I could not bring myself to peruse. Even though it had Nicholas Cage, whom I like.

 

[LaisDeMarieDeFrance]

That is, indeed, a good one.

There was a 2006 remake. Which I could not bring myself to peruse. Even though it had Nicholas Cage, who I like.

Going to hunt that one now. lol

 

[Endless_Night]

Heading home today. Where I will paint instead of dancing Thriller all around the house for several hours a day with Seven.

#sacrifices

I suspect his mother may be rather glad to see me go.

 

[Endless_Night]

Going to hunt that one now. lol

This conversation reminds me that I never did see Wicker (2026).

Someone posted a clip on the board, pre-opening. Naturally I forgot.

Not horror, but the clips look great!

 

[LaisDeMarieDeFrance]

This conversation reminds me that I never did see Wicker (2026).

Someone posted a clip on the board, pre-opening. Naturally I forgot.

Not horror, but the clips look great!

I want to see it. Love Olivia Colman!

 

[EyesOnHers]

Not horror, but the clips look great!

I want to see it. Love Olivia Colman!

I really want to see this one too!

And agree, Olivia Coleman is fantastic!