I've just been getting way more clips of her lately (RIP sweet angel queen), both old clips and new clips, and its no secret Dolly ended up getting a lot of plastic surgery as the years went on.

It hit me though while watching her, she might've even technically fit in the "botched" category near the end, it sometimes looks like her lips cant close fully, her face was frozen in lots of spots, big bleached hair and big thick makeup.

Yet never once did it actually give me uncanny valley vibes like faces with that amount of work usually do. Her smile couldn't technically reach her eyes when i paused it but if you're just watching her talk it still felt like it! Even though I could objectively tell she had a lot of work done, it didn't make her look less "human" like it so often can. I wonder if anyone else has noticed that?

Oh Dolly, always gorgeous inside and out no matter what form you take! You will be missed!

ETA: im sorry for those that are being hurt by the word botched! It's a very intense word, I get it. To try to be clearer, im specifically talking about the type of plastic surgery that prevents the body from doing what it naturally is supposed to do. Im defining it as "lips cant fully close, eyelids cant fully close, cant smile or frown". For me im defining more by the surgeons job. If the human face cant move like the human face, i believe they messed up their job. I do NOT mean to use it synonymously with "ugly".

I think objectively, Dolly's face couldn't move quite like how it's meant to by the end, I do NOT think that makes her ugly, or even that that's not what she wanted for herself! She always spoke of freezing, and nip and tucking herself.

I solely meant that, while there was less movement (and so supposedly less capacity to express emotion) it didn't come off like that when she was interacting with someone. And I think that's really cool.

Also; I know that bringing up the discussion of plastic surgery in and of itself makes us start walking the line of talking about health, but this post is not meant to be somewhere we theorize about her health, just a fan talking about how "real" she felt to the last. Please try to refrain from health judgements even if it feels tricky. This isn't a plastic surgery bashing post. Thank you

I’m 30 years old and it’s like everything is hitting me at once

- I miss my grandparents, I only have one left and dementia has turned her into a shell of her former self.

- I miss going over to my grandparents house.

- I miss when my parents were much younger.

- I miss elementary school

- I miss middle school

- I miss high school

- I miss my childlike innocence

- I miss my childhood pets

- I miss playing outside as a kid

- I miss when my parents could make any of my worries go away

- I miss being tucked in at night

- I miss being told bedtime stories

- I miss watching cartoons before school

- I miss my only worry being homework or what I was going to do with my friends the next day

- I miss when the world wasn’t so connected and dependent on clicks and content

- I miss when physical third places to hang out actually still existed.

- I miss the overall more positive attitude of society

- I miss when I didn’t have existential dread

- I miss when I wasn’t negative all the time

- I miss swinging on swings at the par

- I miss when things weren’t so partisan and when we weren’t all at each others throats

- I miss having optimism for the future

- I miss when I didn’t have health issues

- I miss my childhood

- I miss when my old neighborhood had kids playing. Now nobody goes outside

- I miss……. ME

Hi there!

I noticed that people crying leads to me feeling confused and also like I am about to laugh or it makes me feel partially strangely positive in general.

I believe due to the fact that crying sometimes sounds so much like laughing and it just is an incredible weird situation that I do not know how to deal with.

Still, I never spoke to anybody about that and I am wondering.

Thanks for taking your time to read my post and answer!

I recently moved into a new apartment and the toilet is different than what I’m used to, so a few times I have gone on autopilot and done this. And yes my Johnson might be small and I’m not afraid to say it, just wondering if this happens to anyone else.

every checkout counter has a tablet spun around at me now asking for 20% on a coffee i watched someone pour in 4 seconds. i still tip at restaurants obviously but the counter-service guilt trip is wild. am i the only one who freezes up every time

I don't really eat candy, but recently bought a bag of starbursts since it was my favorite as a kid. I've tried eating it a few times, but the first couple I eat turn my saliva into an acidic, very irritating phlem once I swallow the candy. The saliva has trouble going down, and the burning makes me gag and cough bad. It also leaves a poor taste and lingering mild burning in my throat for a while. I'm pretty sure I'm not allergic, so I'm wondering if anyone else has noticed this.

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Had dinner at a new friend's house last weekend and we literally sat down and ate the second we got there. No music, no time to warm up, and his wife is pretty shy. Just forks clinking. It got better after we ate but wow those first 20 minutes were painful.

Then we went to a diner the other night and they had rock music going at a decent volume and it made everything so much easier. Nobody feels pressure to talk constantly when there's music. I don't get why more places don't figure this out.

I remember that this user to happen all the time to me when I was a kid playing Hide and Seek with my friends. Please tell me I’m not the only one who has experienced this.

I find it extremly annoying and I don't have a reason to feel that way, but it does make me genuinely angry and I don't know why. And oh my god that squeaky sound pasta makes, I can't stand it. It's not even disgusting, it's simply annoying.

I’m sure this is probably a pretty popular one, but I’ve been feeling really irritated lately at the amount of people that just watch my stories and never interact with me ever. A lot of these people are supposed to be friends or at the very least peers that at one point cared about me and still do some degree due and watch all my stories and follow me yet. Never like them never really respond to them never reach out to me… It’s starting to feel really heavy. I’ve been trying to weed out people that just watch and don’t interact but lately I feel like it’s nearly every single person and I’m starting to wonder why I even bother.

Every time I travel, the first thing I do getting into my room is put up the DND sign, and it stays on the door for my entire stay.

I don't want someone coming in and touching my stuff. I can live for a few days in a hotel without having it cleaned, I don't need the towels changed every few days, I don't need my bed made. I just want it to be my space while I stay there.

Especially when I crack my back yo sometimes I’m like did that just come out of my body. Woah that feels good. I know it’s not good to always do it all the time but man sometimes I just need to get that little something in the middle of my spine especially my upper back and I get it every single time.

Bush's baked beans are good, but their marketing is so weird to me. When I see their cans at the supermarket, my brain immediately thinks "dog food." I don't know what it is, but something about Bush's branding makes me associate them with the same category as Alpo and Pedigree. It also doesn't help that they even had a dog as their mascot at one point. I'll still buy it, but every time I need to overcome the idea I might be buying dog food for myself, and I don't want to eat dog food. lol

Recently I’ve noticed I unintentionally hold my breath when someone is talking for too long and I keep really antsy and suffocated. I have no idea why or what could be causing this, but I notice it mainly at work when my coworker talks too much. Does anyone else feel this way?

In the bathroom, I am very picky with what my hands touch. I have hands assigned for different roles in bathroom. For example my clean hand is my right which is assigned with taking down my pants and the left hand is associated with toilet paper and touching my privates, and I only pick up my pants with one hand which is my right hand. If I see myself intstinctivy picking up my pants with both hands I get agitated, and I may repeat the process again, pulling my pants down and then pulling it with the right hand.

Five years ago, I had a surgery, and it was my first time being under general anesthesia. Before I fully woke up, I experienced something really, really strange.

The first thing I remember was feeling like I was a tiny sphere or dot, surrounded by an infinite number of other black and white spheres. They weren’t exactly like the dots you see in white noise. They felt more like small cubes, and somehow, I was one of them.

Then I felt like I was inside a search.

It was almost like being under a Google search, with countless searches happening one after another. I could hear a strange mechanical sound, almost like a counting machine or some kind of machine repeatedly processing searches. I felt like I was one of those searches, waiting to be found.

I remember thinking, “When will I find out who I am?”
At some point, I felt like I had finally been found. I thought, “Okay, I got found out. Now I’ll be out of this.”

But I wasn’t.

Instead, I realized I was in another loop. It felt like I had gone from one loop into another, and then another, almost like an infinite loop inside an infinite loop. I became worried about how I would ever get out and how long I would remain there.

Then something changed.
The black and white cubes that had been moving from top to bottom started moving in spirals. They weren’t just going straight anymore. They were forming circular patterns, continuously spiraling around and around.
While this was happening, I suddenly remembered a strange phrase from my childhood.

I think I used to say this phrase when I was around two or three years old. I remember putting my finger on my nose while saying it. I don’t know why I remembered it at that moment, but as the dots continued spiraling, I was somehow saying that phrase in my mind.

It made me wonder whether I had experienced something similar when I was very young, perhaps after waking up from an evening nap.

Then, after this spiraling, I went back to the cubes going top to bottom and I noticed one turquoise colored sphere among all the black and white ones.

I thought, “If I follow that one, maybe I’ll get out of here.”
So I focused on it.

As I did, I slowly started hearing voices. At first, they were distant and unclear, but gradually I could recognize the voices of the doctors and my mom.

Then I realized that the turquoise sphere was my mother because she was wearing a turquoise-colored dress.
And then I opened my eyes.

I remember feeling incredibly relieved and thanking God.
The whole experience was completely surreal. I had gone from being a tiny cube among countless others, searching and moving through endless loops, to suddenly recognizing my mom’s voice and seeing the turquoise color that brought me back.

It was one of the strangest experiences I have ever had.

I’m a side sleeper and I keep waking up with ear pain from laying on one side for too long. I switch sides but then that ear gets sore too, plus I prefer to lay on one side more than the other. I use a soft memory foam pillow that is really comfortable for my neck but I don’t know what to do about this ear pain that seems to be bothering me more and more lately. Does this happen to anybody else?

That it's not being treated, never will be, and what that means for the rest of our lives.

the first couple times you give them the benefit of the doubt but after like the third time its clearly a pattern. i just started saying oh no worries venmo me right there at the table and suddenly they started remembering their wallet again lol

hey just wanted to know if i was the only one lmao does anyone else gets teary at literally ANY emotion that they feel ?

its not even that i cry, tbh im not a person that cries a lot, i just get misty eyed ALL the time its so annoying, i cant laugh genuinely or talk about something im passionate about without looking like im crying

its so annoying because it makes me look like an oversensitive dumbass except im not

Today I had a sudden thought and looked up my ex-boyfriend, whom I dated for over 5 years. It’s been 15 years since we last saw each other, I felt kind of embarrassed doing this. Turns out he moved to wales, married with kids, Honestly, I don’t miss him, especially thinking of how he treated me. But, strangely, I wish he all the best, and I also hope to never see him again. 

Has anyone else done this? What’s you thought at the time?