RANDOM MEME - Anonymous Advice Bulletin!

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Pumpkin Hollow Community Bulletin

Anonymous Advice Board

Hello, Hollowites! It's been a while since we've had any activities on the local community bulletin, with all the hustle and bustle. So today, we're bringing you a fun, low-stakes community activity--- an anonymous advice board! Post a question on the bulletin board (ICly anonymous, but OOCly players can see which journal it came from) and your neighbors can answer! Answers can be left anonymous as well, or they can be signed. So post your burning questions, and be a helpful neighbor by answering some in return! Have fun!

And, as always, please feel free to post advertisements for businesses, help wanted requests, or other announcements on the ad thread. Don't be afraid to get creative!

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QUESTIONS/COMMENTS/CONCERNS

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How to get fish smells out of fabric?

[cantstandthenoise]

My partner works with fish and I'm super proud of the work they do but they are always stinky!!! I keep telling them to designate specific clothes to work and to not sit on the sofa until they've changed but sometimes they sit without thinking or are in a hurry and just grab whatever shirt. Help??

[xiaoxiuya]

Where do they normally grab their clothes from when they're rushing out the door? Keep all their fishy clothes in that spot and move the clothes you want to keep stank-free to a second, slightly harder to get location, so they can only access the fishy items when they're in a hurry.

Unfortunately, in a world without plastic sheets, the only way to keep your couch safe might be to designate a blanket or two as stank-sacrifices and drape them over the spots your partner likes to sit when they're in port.

[luckandmybruder]

I have generally found that threatening bodily harm does make someone think twice about tracking in a terrible smell. You may also need a rather harsh soap, both for your smelly partner and for their clothing. Scrub them yourself. It will either be a punitive activity, or a bonding one.

WHAT IS A NORMAL AMOUNT OF TIME TO WAIT BEFORE PROPOSING??? URGENT PLS HELP

[elvaquerito]

She's the love of my life but I've only been dating her for a few months and I feel ridiculous. What's a normal amount of time???? I might have a ring already. What do I do?

Context: we are lesbians and I am an idiot

[xiaoxiuya]

You are definitely an idiot, but if she loves you she'll probably find it cute and endearing. One thing you should definitely NOT DO when you pop the question, though, is try to take it back or pass it off as a joke if she takes a few minutes to respond. She's just thinking! No matter how embarrassed you are, DO NOT BACKPEDAL. There's nothing worse than being asked such an intimate, personal, important question, and then being given reason to wonder if your partner never meant it at all! It's even worse than being kissed under insincere circumstances!

[thishurts]

I'd say never get married if you can help it. Pawn the ring while you can and get out of there.

Unless maybe lesbian marriage works out better. Wouldn't know.

[abhorrently]

slow down. it's only been a few months. things can change - if in half a year, you've thought about it enough to know you're certain you can withstand any weather, then perhaps take the ring out again.

[incomingchoppers]

Well I proposed to my high school sweetheart after eight months of going steady? But she sent me a Dear John pretty soon after I went to Korea, so... maybe that's not the right number.

So either more or less time than eight months!

[tehilim127_1]

You are not an idiot, normal is made up, and the best advice I ever heard on the subject was that you should know each other pretty closely for one year minimum before you get married. You don't have to have been dating all that time, and that doesn't mean one year minimum before you get engaged, depending on how you feel about the length of engagements.

Something worth considering: do you have any idea how your partner feels about things like proposals and marriage in general? If you don't know at all, might be good to talk about.

[xiaoxiuya]

What are some good toy ideas for a developing eldritch entity? I'd like to keep things reasonably educational if I can while also providing her an outlet for her non-Euclidean amounts of energy!

[thishurts]

I just learned way more about this place than I ever wanted to know.

A serious question that needs no specifics

[luckandmybruder]

How does one move on from a hectic life and constant danger to the relative peace of these new surround? Especially when you have the knowledge that you have no hope of seeing the person you love again?

[abhorrently]

hope still exists. stranger things have happened.

but i suggest finding things in this place to anchor yourself to. life exists, despite it all. long walks in peace on your own can help. and you're not the only one facing this down.

Should I introduce my daughter to my ex-spouse?

[arcanegrasp]

We're on decent terms, still fairly friendly, and she's starting to get old enough that the chances of an encounter by pure circumstance are getting higher and higher. Should I take the initiative to introduce them, or is it best to keep their lives separate and avoid overcomplicating things?

[tehilim127_1]

Does your ex know you have a daughter? If so, you might ask how your ex feels about the idea.

I'm not clear on how old your daughter is, but it sounds like she might still be at an age where she'll accept things as presented to her. If that's not the case, this gets a little more complicated.

Sleep Advice.

[cyansoldier]

I keep waking up with my fist through the wall. Literally. There are so many holes. Some of the holes have holes. My place is a wreck. How do I stop this from happening?

[tehilim127_1]

Is padding the wall an option? Folded towels or blankets perhaps?

how to get glitter out of a bag?

[abhorrently]

it can't be turned inside out, it's bigger on the inside. will things sparkle forever?

[not_the_last]

You have a bag of holding?

Help a fella settle an argument.

[carefulinspekshun]

Would you consider it rude if the person you're living with kept leaving cabinets open? On one hand, it's awfully easy to forget, I know I've done it! But when it's every single cabinet every single day, opened right to where you can run your hip into them, it gets IN-TALL-ER-A-BULL! How hard is it to just take a couple seconds to close the cabinet??

[staybizzy]

Your messy ass is all woiked up about ONE CLACKIN CABINET and you wanna put me on blast for da whole town???? Let's see how you like it asshole

Partner keeps eatin all da croutons

[staybizzy]

SINCE WE'RE AIRIN' OUT OUR DIRTY LAUNDRY IN PUBLIC LIKE CHILDREN. I like to eat salads for lunch sometimes, yanno? It's good for me. Man's gotta get his veggies, right? And I been gettin these nice croutons from the store, baked daily from spare bread, beautifully seasoned, I love dese cobdamned tings. All I want when I go on lunch durin a long day at work is to sit down wit my salad and have some damn croutons on it. I ask for so little. But my partner, who I love very much, keeps EATIN EM LIKE CHIPS AS A SNACK AND NOT LEAVIN ME NONE.

How should I handle dis? Should I just eat 'em all myself? Hide em? Do I need to invest in a safe? Should I just kick his ass?

[coolhatluvr]

FIGHT
FIGHT
FIGHT

dog keeps starting small fires please help

[kovarstvi]

As it says. My dog sets fires. How do I make it stop?

[cyansoldier]

Get a second dog who's good at carrying buckets of water. Duh.

is there a way to get specific people on the island?

[heartofadreemurr]

just asking

[abhorrently]

no, but you can ask the people at town hall to keep a look out for them. give them names and a description, and they'll tell you if they show.

seeking a certain dish

[peoplepleaser]

There is a specific dish I'd love to have again, but I'm not much of a cook and I don't know the recipe. It was a curry with lamb, a little spicy and a little sweet.

I tried making it once before but I didn't have any of the ingredients or spices I needed, and it came out very poorly. Any suggestions on where to start are welcomed.

[bedknobsandbroomsticks]

Curry is difficult to get just right. You'll need a lot of ingredients and then figuring out what proportions you should use for each one to get the taste you like.

I can give you a recipe I used once, if you'd like. I used monster bits for some of it though so I'll attempt to find a normal equivalent for such items.

Important Question

[aghostinthemachine]

Would you smooch a ghost?

[staybizzy]

How??

UPDATE

[staybizzy]

We did not get a divorce or kill eachotha. We made up the old fashioned way. If ya know ya know.

[impostor_syndrome]

Love wins!

Creepy Neighbor???

[lofi_charm]

Alright, so, I'm having a weird problem.

I own one of the businesses surrounding the, ah, rather infamous Burger King. And I honestly like the place, having fast food in a distinctly non-modern world is a huge plus for hectic days! But a few months ago, the owner hired a new employee who I think might also live there and he's... interesting.

Sometimes very early in the morning, I'll see him climbing around in the gutters, bringing sticks and bits of refuse up there. I think there's some kind of nest up there now, with blue egg-like things? He also will sometimes just sort of stand around outside before the business opens and giggle unnervingly to himself (he sounds like a glitched recording which makes me extra nervous for personal reasons), or when there's no customers he'll just stand by a window and... stare. Unmoving. He hasn't done anything genuinely harmful and seems to provide pretty good customer service but he just freaks me out. Have any other business owners in the area noticed this? Should we say something?? Am I just worked up over nothing?

[redlightgreenlight]

You are certainly spending a lot of energy keeping an eye on this guy who seems to be just going about his business. Have you considered that you might be the creepy one?

future advice.

[abhorrently]

we all know that when the barrier comes down, we can choose whether we stay or go back to where we came from. we all have things we left unfinished. say you left something big behind - really big, not the sort of thing you can reasonably ignore. big enough that not just you is trying to handle it, but it's very important that you help sort this out. but being here makes you happier, and you feel like you actually have a life.

going back = knowing the big problem is solved, other people are happy. leaving this life for the one you were supposed to have. you will not be happy, but you will make sure everyone else is okay. you can probably intervene and make sure of it.
staying = you're happier, but you don't know if the problem is fixed. abandoning your responsibility to those you knew. no idea if they'll live or die.

what do you do, and why do you do it?

[fuelmayor]

When the question is posed in such a way, it becomes clear that I have no choice but to fulfill my obligation to my people. I was the one who failed them in the first place, and I must take whatever chance I have to make amends.