I got laid off on February 1st of the this year, luckily I had enough money to coast for 2 months, I filed for unemployment and began filling out the weekly claims. I got two checks, but afterwards I got denied multiple times. I checked my mail and Frances (Oregons unemployment site) but no information on why I was getting denied. I have been attending interviews and filling out applications and going to temp agencies like a mad man with no avail. Unfortunately the city I live in seems to have dried up on the jobs I usually work being lumber, warehousing, forklift, etc. Even going outside my comfort zone and applying to fast food and part time jobs I've gotten no call backs from anything.
I'm out of money and moved back in with my mom. I have food stamps but again, without unemployment I'm feeling nervous. I have 50 dollars, it's all going towards my laundry, my bus passes. I can't afford haircuts so I cut my hair myself even if it looks awful. I'm selling alot of my stuff on eBay.
I'm at the end of my rope and I wanna live like a human being, I've called unemployment only for to be stuck on the phone all day. Please if anyone has any idea what I can do. I want a job badly, I'm even selling my PC it took 3 years to scrape money for in my teens. I'm selling my guitar that I had as a teen. Unfortunately I don't really have anything more valuable to sell. I have 1 pair of boots to wear for work and everyday use. Tomorrow I'm going to work source Oregon again to see if I can find work and information on my unemployment.
I'm sorry if this sounds desperate but it is. I need this money. I'm going to move away from my home city to look for work away from most of my family and friends because that's how screwed things are here.

Context first, predicament(s) after. Feel free to scroll down.
My parents have been together my whole life. Lots of complications throughout the years, etc. I can give an entire history of abuse at the literal hands of my father back to when I was in third grade as I have been deeply traumatized, as has my younger sibling (28 F). I will try to post key events for context in an attempt to catch up to the present.
Firstly, I made peace with my childhood when I was about 26 after a long talk about my OCD with my parents where my dad expressed that he deals with a lot of the symptoms I talked about. I chalked it up to him being an undiagnosed whatever the hell he has. I haven't forgiven him, but I have an understanding. They should have split IMO the first time he put his hands on someone, but she stayed out of survival, which I don't fault her for.
2007:
Once when I was in high school she called me and told me that she had my sister from daycare and that she wasn't coming back, and that she couldn't come get me because dad said he was going to kill her if she came home. I begged for her not to leave me, and after the call I saw that he had a gun out on his bed when I walked past their bedroom. She came home late that night and slept in my bedroom with my sister. She has since told me that he would also make threats to burn the house down if she ever left him, burn down her new house, kill all of us, etc.
Skip to about 2012-2014:
When I moved out of state and out of their house to be with my boyfriend my dad was already pissed that I was going to visit and basically told me to never come back. I was in a rush to leave anyways, because he had recently beat my sister with a plate so loudly that I could hear it over my gaming headset with friends in another room. So, I granted his wish and didn't see him for over a year. As I was packing I told my sister and mom that if he puts his hands on anyone I'm going to sue them for custody of my sister.
Obviously, my relationship with my mother and my sister at this time became strained as they lived with him so I couldn't visit often. While I was gone he started stalking my mother and installed an app on her phone so he could track her at all times. She worked in an office building that didn't have good service and he'd ask her why she wasn't at her desk, etc. He sent her various threatening messages that I screenshotted and sent to myself on her phone. He was under the impression she was cheating on him, and went so far as to buy a semen test kit to test a literal mayo stain on one of her work clothes. He was unhinged and completely psychotic at this time, and I was completely, and still am, on my mothers side.
Not sure of the rest of this timeline as far as dates up until the present, so here are the key events after this stalking episode:

• Dad accused Mom of cheating with a dude at the tyre shop in town. Mom admits this is when she stopped loving him. This wasn't the first time he had accused her, but she had enough.
• This is around when he starts the stalking episode
  • I find out, yadda yadda yadda from above, and I found her a lawyer and a women's shelter that would help her disappear.
  • She loses her nerve and doesn't go through with it.
• We find out that Dad has been having an internet affair with some lady and was sending her money on the DL
• Mom found out about internet affair after he made some mistakes with covering his tracks
  • My sister and I also found out and my dad was pissed because he said my mom was cheating and that she was just trying to get us on her side
• Mom and dad plan to go seperate ways.
  • they don't
• They move closer to me because I have a son. Things calm down for a long time until they need work done on their house.
  • My dad is so paranoid that my mom is cheating with the construction dudes that he makes my mom pack herself a cooler with food and drinks and makes her sit in her room all day.
• I am barely able to get my mom out of the house to run errands etc because dad is paranoid that I'm taking her to meet her alleged boyfriend, etc.
• Things stay calm for a few years, to my knowledge.
• Dads health slides. He can no longer walk. He's in a wheelchair and needs my mothers assistance with literally everything from dressing and using the restroom, etc.
  • This keeps her close as well, because she has to stay and take care of him.
  • They cannot afford a home health aide with insurance or otherwise.
• Mom came to me literal days ago and said that she's planning on divorcing him and is she a POS for wanting to leave him given his health problems. I tell her NO and that she deserves to have a happy life.
• 2 days after this she tells me she has a guy she's been talking to that was one of her old classmates from school, and he's super kind and has a ranch back home with horses and blah blah blah and she can come stay etc etc.

So basically, her plan is to leave for a week, have a home assistance person paid to go take care of him, etc. and then ask for the police to help get him out and then she's going to sell everything and move off with this dude.
I told her that she needs a real plan. First of all he's violent when angry, even if he's in a wheelchair. I feel like he would try and hurt himself and obviously burn the house down since that was always his main threat, and that me and my mom and sister might have to go through a fucking criminal investigation. I literally cannot stomach it.
Also, I am scared for my dad because holy fuck. He can't walk, he can't do anything for himself. The fucked up part of me cares for him still. The logical part of me knows he brought this upon himself. I just don't know what to do. My mother's plan is shaky at best, and it's just a fucking mess. I told her that she needs to confide in her sister-in-law who is married into the family to see if her and my uncle can take him on, because my mom has never asked for shit, and the whole family (he has like 6 surviving siblings) knows that he's an abusive prick and that my mom doesn't and has never deserved to be treated the way he has treated her. But again, I'm conflicted.
I told my mom that she needs to hold onto the house for now because she doesn't even know the dude that well and then what, she ends up homeless if he's not a good fit? IDK. Nobody is thinking things through, and I am expected to keep this secret until she goes through with it? I am going to lose my mind, and have already been up at night crying and throwing up because of the anxiety. Please, if anyone can give me any guidance I'd sincerely appreciate it.

So..it’s a long story, but I really just need to talk about it. Im missing the guy I with broke up seven months ago after a 11 month long relationship (even you can even say 11 months).
In that 11 months we went through some shit..here’s is how it happened, I had recently moved back home after college and we matched on tinder in October (2022). Well the problem was he was living back were I had just moved from (2hr drive), but he had family close so we’d see each other occasionally. We talked for a while, went on a few date, and really hit it off. It felt very natural and fun. Well after 4 months (February 2023) decided to make things official. However, he was never keen on making it FB official until March. When we finally made it official on FB someone left a comment about “once a cheater always a cheater” so I immediately reached out to him about it. He confessed that his last relationship he had cheated on his girlfriend of 2 years. He tells me all the details and we decide to move on from it bc I’m not one to judge on someone’s past. (Keep in mind this is just a month into our “official” relationship)
Two weeks later I get a message from someone on FB telling me that they are his Ex’s best friend and dives into details that he failed to mention like they in fact dated for FOUR YEARS not two like he said, he also failed to mention that they were living together up until September 2022 only a month before we starting talking to each other on tinder. I immediately confront him about it. He goes on to say that he didn’t realize they were dating that long and that he never told me when they broke up bc he thought it didn’t matter to me about his past and he was just really ashamed and that’s why he never told me about it. Of course I forgive him and we move on. Well I’m a ruminator. It was still bothering me so I told him I think we needed to take a step back.. however we went right back to talking the next day because I was so upset . I felt like someone had gutted me with a knife. That was in May(2023).. only 3 months into our relationship..
In June (2023) we end up going to on a trip together with my family and we have a great time. Probably one of the best weeks of my life. I felt so in love with this guy. Then in July (2023) my car gets stolen out of his driveway WITH HIS DRUMS INSIDE while I’m out of town visiting family. Through that entire situation he was so helpful and kept my mind off of it all. Stayed home from work and let me stay at his place until we figured out a way to get my car back. I literally cried leaving him because I felt so in love with him. Fast forward to mid July and my birthday comes. I’m still without a car so I get a rental so I can stay with him and hang out with my friends who still live in my college town. I get there a day before my birthday and we get dinner and watch a movie with my friends. On my birthday we spent it out with my friends and then go to a movie with one of his friends that night. That whole day I was waiting for a card or something, not that I’m materialistic I just felt like he hadn’t planned anything for us. He hadn’t even planned a dinner, whereas for his birthday I surprised him with balloons every where and all his favorite things … I find revenge get a little hand written card!!! It made me upset. So I said something about it. And his respond was “I really didn’t think it was that big of a deal. We aren’t really a birthday family .. I’ll do better next year.” I told him okay ,but ultimately came to the decision we needed a extensive break. I told him I felt like my needs weren’t being met and I wanted to feel like a priority we took a 3 week long break.. Basically all of August we didn’t see each other. Then September rolled around and we hardly seen each other still. We had tried to make an agreement on our break that we’d see each tier at least once a week after the break, but that didn’t happen. In October (2023) I finally called it for good. It felt like we were just on different roads that never had an intersection.. I’ve missed him before..like back in February (2024) I snooped and seen that he might be seeing someone..I can usually snap myself out of it.. but recently I can’t. I keep thinking about reaching out.. someone tell me what’s wrong with me.. tell me that “if he wanted to he would” I’m just.. wrecking my bre’s I’m trying to find a reason it’s a good idea.. maybe that’s why I’m posting this.. to try to make sense of my irrational thinking. Please help me… at least help me stop ruminating. Do I reach out?? Or do I just keep the no contact going??

I think I hold the record for the fastest crush in all the Wild West. I get to work and start ranting about whatever bullshit I had happen to me the night before. Then I turned around because my coworker kept looking past me. The prettiest girl I’ve ever met is standing right behind me and everything just goes blank. I swear I forgot everything before that moment.
I tried to get to know her the best I can for a week because we’re just training her for another location. I stumble and fall in every conversation we have. With each one I try to circumvent the rules I placed for myself about dating coworkers. And on that last day I ask her out.
I don’t know what got into me that thought yeah let’s send a good morning text every fucking day. I already know I’m not her type and I still chose to do the dumbest things. We were both going through some stressful situations and I fucked it up.
I was heart broken before and I thought nothing would be able to fix me. Then I met this girl and I thought maybe I’m not as broken as I thought. But how do I feel this strongly about a person I barely even knew.
This shit happened months ago and I still feel the pain so fresh in me. Everyday that I go to work is a reminder of how I fucked up what could’ve been. How am I this pathetic, constantly being haunted by someone I didn’t even spend a full hour on. I didn’t even know how to apologize to her properly. Because how do you apologize to someone that gave you hope simply by being.

I’m sorry if this is going to be a bit rambly, I can’t really write any other way though… Anywho, throughout my whole relationship with my girlfriend she’s had problems with 2 friends of mine, let’s call them Charlotte and Mike. (Mike and charlotte date by the way) Mike and I have been friends before either of us have had girlfriends, we met in college before either of us had girlfriends. We always had a pretty fun relationship, even when things have been rough we’ve always been there for each other. I’ve always liked his girlfriend Charlotte a lot, I’ve never really had an issue with her until lately.
So I’m not going to get into every little detail, but there has been a couple incidents in the past between my girlfriend (let’s call her katy) and charlotte. They’ve both tried to mend things before, and they recently even had quite a promising get together without either Mike or Me around. I was frankly quite optimistic that they could get along for once. Until one day I brought Katy over to Mikes house, with a couple of his other friends. and admittedly Katy isn’t exactly the best at ready the room, and she made some sexual jokes around all of us, specifically about my friend Andrew’s feet. I should also mention Andrew’s girlfriend was in the room, But my friends came to me about it, instead of confronting her about it.. I should point out that this offended the same people that have gave each other hickeys in front of me, made out in front of me, and even done oral sex when I was asleep in the same room…. I’m a pretty easy and open guy but I wouldn’t be lying if that didn’t make me feel a little weird.
Anyways this all sort of came to a head when I had to have an “intervention” type thing with them about my girlfriend. They brought up how she made them uncomfortable with her jokes, which is understandable I suppose, but they also talked to me about how they thought she was ABUSING me. I’ll be honest I can see how she made them uncomfortable I did not see this coming whatsoever. I’ll be honest I was hearing them out when they were talking to me. I know how abuse can go sometimes, and how someone can be abused without knowing it. After thinking about it on the drive home, I was seriously questioning whether I was being abused or not. I know when I’m with her I feel way happier than I am without her, I know that when we have disagreements we are mature and careful in our wording as to not offend the other.
And when I came home she gave me the sweetest hug and kissed me… I right then I broke down. How could such a cute loving person be abusive? Granted she isn’t perfect but who is? I started sobbing uncontrollably, I was sick of this shit. I was sick of worrying about Kathy getting along with my friends, I was sick worrying whether my friends liked her. I had to tell her everything they said. In hindsight, a part of me regrets it, but a part of me is relieved. I don’t think they ever liked her anyway, even when she’d make pizza rools for mike and I while we were making music. Plus I have another group of friends that she gets along great with, so it’s not like I need to completely uproot anything or whatever.
I guess what I’m asking advice-wise is what should I do with these guys? On one hand Mike and I have always had a great relationship, and I feel like it’d be weird to just throw it away. On another hand, I don’t want to be friends with people who are most likely talking shit about my girlfriend. In other words….. WHADDO I DO?!?!?

The mods of ProRevenge exercised their judgement that, fair enough, my childhood story did not constitute revenge. I respect the decision. Apparently it was crossposted to another sub first, though, but the thing was too dang long and ended up cut off. I will provide the full post here and give full permission for anyone who is able to, to post the second half on the reddit it was crossposted to, but I would only like to say first:
I only use reddit to troubleshoot tech issues since Google is down the drain now, and read BoRU posts on occasion. In general, I like to keep a very low social media footprint. So please understand that this will be my final word on this post. :)

This happened decades ago now, back in primary school. I only remembered it because I was recently catching up with old friends from back then, and we got to laughing over old stories and then someone mentioned, "The wildest was when you organised that whole protest against our teacher."
"The time I did what?"
The consensus was I did, indeed, organise the entire class to rebel against our teacher that resulted in her being deposed and our class getting a "substitute" for the rest of the year. I almost fell out of my chair hearing this story from their mouths. It wasn't that I didn't remember it, of course I did--that year was awful. It was just that it existed very differently in my memory.
Two important pieces of background knowledge to understand here:
I went to a very very small, very very rural school. How small? Each classroom was composed of the entire year level, and the largest had at most 30 kids in them. My class/year level was on the smallest in the entire school, with a piddling 14 kids in it altogether. While we still had our cliques and factions, our small size caused our class to be very tight knit and protective of each other. How rural? The school building itself was incredibly small, but one thing we were not short on was gigantic empty fields surrounding us on all sides. Great for sports, great for (it turns out) student protests.
I was, at the time, undiagnosed autistic. I mean I still am autistic, I'm just formally diagnosed now. But back then I was just seen as being a very quirky kid. One of the ways this quirkiness manifested was that I really had trouble adapting to the rules and structure of grade school and how it differed from what I was used to. At home if I wanted to pee, I just went to the toilet. Now I have to put my hand up? Now I have to ask permission to piss? Then I went home and put my hand up to ask my mom for permission to pee and she told me I didn't need to! Madness! Chaos! I don't care what the rules are, please just be consistent!
But one of the main parts of my brain and the way it works is that sometimes my brain, separate from my will, would just make a decision about a course of action and I would very calmly commit to it come hell or high water. Like, it is vitally important that I stay true to this course of action. I can't explain it. It's like I set a rule for myself and if something disrupts that, I just shut down and stop functioning.
So when the school said, "Okay, when this bell rings during recess/lunch, that means you have to leave the playground and go back to class", I was a confused child already struggling with all these completely nonsensical limitations and guidelines imposed on me. So when that bell rang, I got that calm little voice in my head that said, "Hmm, no, I'm good out here actually. I don't think I will go back into class." So I would just continue to sit out on the playground, playing with my plastic spider toys or sitting on the swing. Teachers would realise what was going on and come out to get me and tell me I have to go back to class, and I would just very calmly hear them out and then smile at them and politely as possible tell them, "No thank you, I want to stay out here."
They really didn't know what to do with me. I wasn't getting upset, I wasn't throwing a tantrum, I wasn't yelling, I wasn't being rude in any way. I was incredibly docile and would let them explain things to me with endless patience and then just politely refute them and go back to what I was doing, like this was just a very normal and reasonable negotiation between two equal parties. I have memories of sitting on the swing while three very confused and flustered adult staff huddled around me trying to bribe me with candy to go back to class. It would take a whole lesson block to lure me back to the classroom, and then at lunch the whole thing would start over again. It took me three years at school to finally accept the status quo thanks to a religious nutter I got for a teacher, and finally went back to class when the bell rang (was never happy about it though).
I eventually settled into school life. Excelled at subjects I liked, at least passed subjects I didn't, followed the rules, was seen as intelligent and obedient and was often liked by my teachers. Until my final year, when we got the teacher I can only rudely monniker Mrs Bigmouth.
Mrs Bigmouth should not have been a teacher. She had a trigger temper and would explode into long, verbally abusive tirades against us if we ever did anything she felt was disrespectful behaviour. What was disrespectful behaviour? Damned if I know. It changed day by day, depending on mood. You could disrespect her to her face one day and she'd laugh and say you have such razor wit, and politely ask a question the next and she'd scream at you for ten nonstop minutes then give you a week of DT for talking back. The absolute peak moment of her boiling temper came when she threw a dictionary at a girl's head because she was whispering to me in class. When I tell you it missed her by half an inch...
But believe it or not, this wasn't what made her such an awful teacher. It was so hard to get teachers at rural schools back then, there was almost nothing you could do to get fired, so we had experience with teachers with nightmare tempers. What made her such an issue was her big mouth. She used us, her trapped audience, as free therapy. She would infodump, traumadump, about her very personal, very private life to us. All day. She'd be two words into a spelling list and launch into an extended story session about her marital issues with her husband. We'd be heads down doing fractions and, unprompted, she'd declare to the class that her adult daughter no longer talks to her and then diatribe to us about it until the bell rang. She had money issues, a contentious relationship with her parents, her marriage was on the rocks. She once pulled me aside after school and spoke with me, at length, about how she was thinking of having another child to try to repair her marriage. I was like, okay lady, I'm 11, about to miss my bus, and my house is a 4 hour walk on foot from here.
We weren't learning. We'd hadn't had a complete lesson since the first week of the school year. We were behind on the cirriculum and frustrated. One kid had brought a stopwatch into school and would time lessons vs her monologues and kept detailed lists, and we would come to school each morning and do betting pools on them. What subject would she interrupt, what would she talk about, and how long would it go.
But all that still wasn't the breaking point if you can believe it. No! Still not! The problem was it wasn't just her own private life she couldn't keep her mouth shut about. It was everyone else's. Because parents would make the reasonable assumption that she should be told things as our class teacher that would be important to know, and that she would understand these things were said in confidence. Instead she would veer randomly off in the middle of talking to us about her horrible weekend to let us know whatever private or traumatic thing was going on in a classmate's life that she had been made aware of. That was awful. That was what made that year hell. It wasn't even about when my secrets were shared with the entire class against my consent. It was watching the faces of my small, lovely, supportive class of 11 year old children go pale and scrunch up with held-back tears as things they never wanted to share were announced like morning news. God we hated her.
Then one day that voice came. The one I hadn't heard in years. The bell ring to go back into class and that voice said, "But I don't want to be in that classroom. I'm not even being taught there." So I just... didn't. I didn't go back to class. I just sat in the playground in a daze eating grass (don't eat grass, it's not good for your teeth). Despite how small my class was, I don't think Mrs Bigmouth even noticed I wasn't there. Others did though. Come lunch and everyone came out, my friends asked me where I was and I said, "Oh, I didn't go back to class."
"Why didn't you go back to class?"
"Why would I go back to class?"
Lightbulb moment for my schoolmates. Yeah, why would they go back to class? What was the point? From a practical standpoint, they weren't learning. From an emotional standpoint, it was horrible to be there. A friend who had had her family's dirty laundry aired to the entire class just last week, things even she didn't know because her parents tried to keep it from her, asked if she could sit with me rather than go back to class. I just stared at her, vacant and confused.
"Sure? I mean, I'm just eating grass though."
Over the next few days, two kids turned into four, turned into ten, turned into the whole class. The whole class was doing a sit-out protest on the field rather than go back to class. Of course Mrs Bigmouth tried to do something about it. She'd come out, screaming at us and threatening us with DT and internal suspension, but six months of that behaviour had totally vaccinated us against her. I'd become the de facto leader and spokesperson of the protest by merit of being the first to sit out and also because I was well known to not give a shit (autistic brain: I actually just frequently had trouble reading and reacting with the correct social behaviour but it gave me a cool and aloof bad boy mystique I guess). I gave her the exact same treatment from back in grade one. I would let her scream, let her holler, let her threaten, let her spittle rain down on me, and then I would give her a sweet and innocent smile and nod in acknowledgement and say, "No thank you, we're going to remain out here." And thirteen pairs of eyes would stare at her in total silence. No one, not even the most gobbermouthed little shite in the class, would volunteer a word. The unspoken agreement was all negotiations were my responsibility.
The thing about angry people is that they feed off conflict. They get you angry so they can respond with even more anger and it nourishes them. She had no absolutely no plan of action on how to deal with me patiently hearing her out then refuting her in the gentlest of terms.
Another thing that ended up helping down the line is that we made an attempt to conduct our own classes. I mean, they sucked and we didn't learn much because we were kids with no supervision, but it was really cute in retrospect. We'd have groups of people assigned to subjects, with some people bringing in words they found in a dictionary for spelling lists and others bringing in old 6th grade homework from older siblings. The heart was there and it served a purpose, if not educational.
"Okay, but how did no one else notice this was happening? Surely people would notice 14 kids sitting on the lawn, not in class?"
Rural school. Big. Empty. Fields. Even screaming at us, the most other classrooms would hear would be muffled voices, and everyone was used to hearing her yelling at us or taking us out onto the field abruptly to make us do laps as group punishment. Plus the way the school buildings were arranged was that it was actually all in one straight line of adjacent rooms, and ours happened to be at the very end of the building. No windows faced the field we all sat in except that of our own classroom. It was just a very lucky arrangement of coincidences and preconceived notions, at least for a couple weeks. I couldn't tell you the exact number, this was so long ago and as a kid I definitely had a more stretched idea of time. Minutes felt like hours, especially during that year. But there was definitely at least two weekends that passed by since the "sit-out protest" started.
Eventually someone cottoned on to what was happening, or maybe Mrs Bigmouth humbled herself and finally confessed to her boss that she had lost control of a bunch of 11-year-olds, so we were called into the principal's office to sort this out. As the representative of our class, I was of course chosen to attend the meeting, flanked by the girl who'd had the dictionary thrown at her head and my friend who was the first to sit out with me. Since I understood that this meeting was one where we were probably going to be yelled at for doing the wrong thing, a thing I had ample experience of, I felt like the easiest way to mitigate things (especially since I felt guilty for being the instigator) was to explain in a very rational and logical way the series of events that led up to our bad behaviour. As well, for my entire life my mother had always taught me that it was no good complaining about things unless you were also willing to think of solutions. "I'm hungry!" - "Well, what's a solution to that problem?" - "Uh, make myself a sandwich?" - "Great! Let's do that together!"
So what did I do? Of course, to make things as clean and concise as possible, I interviewed my class one by one to hear each individual story of why they didn't feel comfortable going to class anymore, itemised them under categories (Verbal Aggression; Interruptions of Lessons; Oversharing Student Life) for easier discussion because my little quirky brain loved itemising things, and then as a kind of olive branch came up with solutions (we wanted to finish lessons unhindered, we wanted our personal privacy to be respected, we wanted to be able to catch our bus on time rather than being held back with unfair DT or long "chats"). So many things sort of came together in this beautiful, wholly accidental way. We had months of records of timed rants and monologues, noted down to the millisecond thanks to that kid's stopwatch. We had records of us trying to teach ourselves during the protests, showing this wasn't us just not wanting to go to class but due to us feeling as though we did not have a class to go to. When the principal heard all this, her jaw it the floor. A lot of it was stuff she knew, peripherally, but things had just never been laid out so neatly before. Some of it was stuff we'd complained to parents about, but it was one kid coming home and telling one parent one time, weeks ago. There was no real sense, up until now, the sheer scope of her behaviour. She didn't even answer us. She just said, "Okay, I need to call your parents."
We got the rest of the week off school. That weekend, every parent of every student came to a meeting between them, Mrs Bigmouth, and the principal. Stories were swapped. My exercise book with my tidy little lists and the records of the betting pool and monologue times were confiscated and brought into the meeting. I don't know what went down, but when my mother came home she just told me that Mrs Bigmouth would not be our problem for the rest of the school year, and more importantly, that she was incredibly proud of me and that I did the right thing. Rarely in my childhood had my inability to integrate into normal society led me to doing the right thing, so I just remember crying and hugging and feeling vindicated about, I don't know, just existing or something.
So yeah. From the outside perspective here is what it looked like: I, the ringleader with a history of dismissing school rules, organised a sit-out strike amongst my class. I kept the protest peaceful and non-disruptive to other classes. When negotiations with the principal were finally arranged, as the representative I compiled a clear list of greivances, with evidence, and a list of reasonable demands. I mean, holy crap, yes, yes I clearly organised a student protest.
The actual results of it are mixed. We got a revolving door of substitute teachers of varying quality for the rest of the school year, occasionally being bundled into other classrooms entirely when they couldn't find someone. It wasn't a great learning environment and we continued to struggle a lot, but it was better than before. Mrs Bigmouth was not actually fired but put on leave for the rest of the school year, then returned and was put in charge of a different year level (which happened to be the class of the younger sister of a guy in my class: according to him, she was quiet as a church mouse that entire year so I hope at least she learned her lesson, or at least finally got divorced and went to actual therapy). The entire ordeal caused our already small and close class to become really really supportive and like family to each other and we all remain in touch until this day. And we became fierce about standing up for ourselves.
I kind of learned to parse the difference between when it was appropriate to go along with set societal rules even if I don't understand them, and when those rules were just straight up unreasonable and nobody should be required to follow them. I did, years alter, lead an actual (very small) strike at work but intentionally that time. My mother was proud of me then too. :)

Actually, this is my final word on this post:
I am sending much love from across the internet to every neurodivergent person who saw themselves in this story and a possibility of how being out of the ordinary can also mean being extraordinary. You are fantastic! You are fantastic! You are fantastic! I will say it three times so you understand the importance of it!

At one point I was thinking about the timeline of FNaF, and decided to write out every concrete date we have. The dates we know for certain are:

• Game & Novel Events
  • 1983 - Freddy's Opens and the Bite of '83 (Confirmed in the Steel Wool games and the presence of Freddy's characters in the FNaF 4 minigames)
  • Monday, October 31st, 1983 - Charlie's death (Confirmed in the novels)
  • Wednesday, June 26th, 1985 - MCI (Confirmed in the FNaF 1 newspapers, novels and Fazbear Frights)
  • Sunday, November 8th, 1987, through Friday, November 13th, 1987 - FNaF 2 Nights and Phone Calls (Confirmed in the FNaF 2 Paychecks)
  • November 8th through November 14th - FNaF 1 Nights and Custom Night (Confirmed in the FNaF 1 Paychecks)
• Novel Only Events
  • July of 1985 - Henry Commits Die
  • June of 1995 - The Silver Eyes
  • October of 1996 - The Twisted Ones
  • Post-Easter Sunday of 1997 - The Fourth Closet

And doing this made me realize something. With the number of dates we have, a lot of people are just guessing instead of working around them. Most notably, the reuse of certain weekdays/months can help us understand dates that aren't confirmed. For example:

• Due to the Spring Bonnie costume being moved in the FNaF 3 Night 5 Phone Call (AKA Phone Guy's 4th call) and Spring Bonnie being used for at least the MCI, we can safely place Phone Guy's FNaF 3 calls from Sunday, June 23rd, 1985, through Thursday, June 27th, 1985. Since Phone Guy brings up the Springlock Failure on Tuesday, this means the Bite of '83 can't have been the springlock failure he mentions on Call 3.
• Since the newspaper clippings in FNaF 1 are after the MCI and appear to be the same front page, this means that not all of them happen on the same day. The "Kids vanish at local pizzeria – bodies not found." page is likely on Thursday, June 27th, 1985, after at least the first two MCI victims have been killed. The "Five children now reported missing. Suspect convicted." page is likely on Friday, June 28th, 1985, after the incident has been more thoroughly investigated. The "Local pizzeria threatened with shutdown over sanitation." page is likely on Saturday, June 29th, 1985, after the bodies have begun to decompose. Notably, the "Local pizzeria said to close by years end." page seems to be well after June of 1985 since the MCI is referred to as "many years ago", so it's unlikely it takes place at the same time as the other three.
• Since both FNaF 1 and FNaF 2 have inconsistencies with it being a "summer" job (FNaF 1 on the Steam Page and FNaF 2 in the Night 1 Phone Call), it's implied that the job listing hasn't been updated since the MCI.
• Phone Guy repeatedly mentions a "previous employee" who took the night shift before we did, who was likely William Afton using a fake name, which means that he had worked from Sunday, October 25th, 1987, through Friday, October 30th, 1987. After this he moves to the dayshift and begins tampering with the animatronics. Since the MCI in the 1985 location happened on a Wednesday, this implies that the DCI also happens on a Wednesday. This, combined with the investigation into Freddy's happening on Night 4 of FNaF 2, implies that the DCI happened on Wednesday, November 11th, 1987.
• Due to the "Freddy Fazbear's is Closing" page seen after Night 6 of FNaF 2 and the Night 7 Guard being a different person, it's likely the Bite of '87 happened on Saturday, November 14th, 1987.
• Since FNaF 2 shows Fazbear Entertainment pays its employees on Thursdays, this means FNaF 1 has to take place in a year where November 12th is a Thursday. As such, the possible dates it could be are 1992, 1998, 2009, and 2015. Since 2009 and 2015 are well after most depictions of the FNaF 1 location and 1998 is after the Security Guard Faz-Fact date of 1988-1993, we can conclude that FNaF 1 has to take place in 1992. To add onto this, a code in the Survival Logbook involving coupons further implies the year 1992 due to calculations involving pricing and inflation. Related to this, Phone Guy is stated to be finishing his last week during the FNaF 1 Phone Calls, and since Mike arrives to take his place immediately after, it's safe to say that the Phone Calls take place from Sunday, November 1st, 1992, through Thursday, November 5th, 1992.
• Due to Phone Guy's Night 1 Phone Call from FNaF 1 playing in the background during FNaF 4 and a number of other similarities, it's safe to say that FNaF 4 takes place during FNaF 1, with Nightmare Night being before just before FNaF 1 Custom Night. The reason for this is that, if Mike is working the Night Shift, he would need to be asleep during the day to make up for it and be ready for his workday.
• Sister Location is stated to take place after a Freddy's location has closed its doors, placing either post-MCI, post-FNaF 2, or post-FNaF 1. However, since HandUnit says the Freddy's that closed was a successful one, it can't be post-FNaF 2 as the location was only open for a few weeks. It also can't be before FNaF 3 because Mike would have no reason to go to Fazbear Frights. Lastly, Elizabeth in the novels dies after Charlie, so her death would have to be before 1987. This implies that the events of the game take place post-FNaF 1, while Elizabeth's death takes place post-MCI and pre-FNaF 2. Notice that earlier when talking about FNaF 2 that I said William didn't work on October 31st, 1987. That is because, given the previous evidence, he was implied to be at the opening of Circus Baby's Pizza World witnessing Elizabeth's death. This event is what leads him to perform the DCI to gain Remnant now that Circus Baby's is out of commission.
• The Immortal and the Restless cutscenes are pretty self-explanatory, taking place after each night of Sister Location. Similarly, the Sister Location cutscenes take place the week after Sister Location. Lastly, the Elizabeth voice lines after each night take place in the week leading up to her death.
• This is where things get a bit controversial. The Silver Eyes takes place over Five Nights (as in the title), and since Charlie is in town for the 10th anniversary of the MCI, this means the book takes place from Monday, June 26th, 1995, through Friday, June 30th, 1995. In the book, we see Charlie springlock William as revenge for his crimes while the other animatronics drag him to the Safe Room. While it isn't 1-1, a similar thing happens in the Follow Me minigames, where on Night 5 all the spirits lead William into the Safe Room and springlock him as revenge for his crimes. Phone Guy also states that "If I were forced to sing those same stupid songs for twenty years and I never got a bath, I’d probably be a bit irritable at night too", which could relate to the predicament William Afton found himself in after Follow Me. This implies that the events of The Silver Eyes happen at the same time as Follow Me in the game continuity, which is why they had to be separated in the first place.
• Relating to the above point, both The Silver Eyes and Sister Location take place over the course of 5 nights and both involve the older brother of one of the dead children being trapped in a Springlock Suit on Night 4. Similarly, both Follow Me and Sister Location end with a man identified by a purple sprite being killed by the victims of the MCI (or maybe DCI for Sister Location). This implies that Sister Location and Follow Me also happen at the same time, and the reason Mike couldn't find his father was because he was springlocked in the back room at Freddy's.
• Since FNaF 3 is stated to be 30 years after a Freddy's location closed its doors, this means that it is in either 2015, 2017, or 2022. Since the game is released in 2015 and the Survival Logbook's previous coupon code matches that date if adjusted for inflation, FNaF 3 takes place in 2015. Due to the date of the MCI already being mentioned and work weeks in the games usually starting on Sunday, this means FNaF 3 takes place from June 21st, 2015, through June 26th, 2015 (after which it burns down). On a related note, the last night of Pizzeria Simulator is stated to be a Saturday, and since the game has a lot of relation to the Afton and Emily families, it's likely that it takes place on the day Charlie and Elizabeth died (October 31st). This implies that the game takes place from Monday, October 25th, 2015, through Saturday, October 31st, 2015.
• You may have noticed that Sister Location is the only game that doesn't start its work week on Sunday, instead beginning on Monday. That is because FNaF World takes place during this day, as implied by the lack of Funtime and Scrap animatronics. After this, the minigames from FNaF 3 are set up and Mike goes to the Sister Location bunker at the behest of his father. Ultimate Custom Night, however, has no set date because it is seemingly a time loop, an endless cycle of suffering endured by whoever you believe the player to be. Happiest Day only occurs after Ultimate Custom Night ends, but just as the Vengeful Spirit says, they will never happen.
• Now that we've covered the major events, let's get to the main course: The minigames. Considering the above evidence, Take Cake to the Children and Security Puppet take place on Monday, October 31st, 1983, Fruity Maze takes place on Wednesday, June 26th, 1985, and Circus Baby's Minigame takes place on Saturday, October 31st, 1987. Foxy Go!Go!Go! and Give Gifts, Give Life likely take place either on the same day as Fruity Maze or the day after on Thursday, June 27th, 1985, though the more likely option is the latter due to cluttering the number of events. The main FNaF 3 minigames besides Happiest Day take place during the events of FNaF 3, since Mike is the one setting them up. That only leaves the FNaF 4 minigames and Midnight Motorist. Due to Midnight Motorist being labeled "later that night" in the code, the rain texture being the same as Security Puppet, and the player driving a purple car, it's likely the minigame takes place the night of Charlie's murder. Since Elizabeth's death, the Bite of '87, and Pizzeria Simulator put a lot of emphasis on "parties on Saturday", it's likely they are calling back to the Bite of '83. Since William "should" have a motive to kill Charlie, this places the FNaF 4 minigames from Monday, October 24th, 1983, through Sunday, October 30th, 1983. This places the Bite of '83 on a Saturday, just like the Bite of '87.
• One last thing of note: Though the year she describes is inconsistent due to Book Charlie being a replica and not the real Charlie, she is born on Tuesday, May 13th, 1980, and dies at the age of 4. Similarly, the date of Fredbear's opening has also been inconsistent, ranging from 1979 to 1982 depending on the media. This seems to imply (to me at least) that Charlie's birthday is the same day Fredbear's opens. Also, since Elizabeth dies four years later on the same day as Charlie, it's likely the same is true for Elizabeth's birthday and the founding of Freddy's. Lastly, to me at least, Michael's birthday being the same day as Bite Victim would give him a motive to bully him and cause the Bite. Considering both Charlie and Elizabeth were four when they died, it's likely that Bite Victim's birthday is Wednesday, October 29th, 1980, with Michael being born on the same day in 1970 to allow him to be old enough to work at the FNaF 2 location as Fritz Smith. gives an exact date for almost any remaining dates missing.

Now that we've covered every possible point from the Clickteam games, let's take this information and form a timeline. Please note that not all of the specifics will be agreed upon, but I believe the general dates are correct.

• Thursday, October 29th, 1970 - Michael Afton (Mike) is born, William Afton and Henry Emily found Fazbear Entertainment.
• Tuesday, May 13th, 1980 - Charlotte Emily (Charlie) is born. Henry and William open Fredbear's Family Diner. In the diner are two animatronics, Fredbear and Spring Bonnie, who can be used as animatronics or worn as suits through the use of springlocks.
• Wednesday, October 29th, 1980 - Bite Victim (CC) is born, and Fredbear's is a massive success. Fazbear Entertainment is large enough to have plushies, action figures, build-your-own-robot toys, a Spring Bonnie finger trap, and even a TV Show called Fredbear & Friends.
• Friday, May 13th, 1983 - Elizabeth Afton (Abby) is born, Henry opens Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. In the Pizzeria are four animatronics (Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, and Foxy), who originated from Fredbear & Friends and don't feature the springlocks found in Fredbear and Spring Bonnie.
• Monday, October 24th, 1983, through Sunday, October 30th, 1983 - Mike torments his younger brother in the week leading up to their birthday while their father watches from afar using cameras and a Fredbear plush with a walkie talkie. The day of the party, Mike and his friends accidentally cause the Bite of '83 through a prank gone wrong, and he dies the following day with both Mike and William speaking to him on his deathbed. The Bite Victim possesses the Fredbear plush, but Mike locks it in a toy chest along with all his other toys so they don't have to think about him. While Mike and William are talking to CC, Fredbear's closes down, the suits are moved to Freddy's, and Fredbear is rebranded to Golden Freddy and given black accessories to replace the original purple accessories.
• Monday, October 31st, 1983 - William gets Henry to watch Mike so he can go to a nearby bar to drink his problems away. After being kicked out for getting too drunk, William drives to Freddy's in a drunken rage. William sees Charlie locked outside by a bunch of bullies and kills her, leaving her body outside by the dumpsters. The Security Puppet animatronic, designed to keep children safe after the accident at Fredbear's caused it to shut down, follows Charlie outside and deactivates while clutching her in its arms. This causes Charlie to possess the Security Puppet. When William gets home, Henry tells him to leave Mike be, but he refuses. He knocks on the locked door before checking the window outside. He remarks that he's run off to "that place", meaning where Mike buried the toy chest in the woods, and vows that Mike will be sorry when he returns.
• Sunday, June 23rd, 1985, through Saturday, June 29th, 1985 - Fazbear Entertainment hires Phone Guy to record safety tapes for the springlock suits used at Freddy's. On Tuesday, an incident involving multiple simultaneous springlock failures (the origins of Shadow Freddy and Shadow Bonnie) causes wearing the suits to be banned. On Wednesday, William dons Spring Bonnie out of spite and lures two children, Susie and Jeremy, to the back room of Freddy's where the springlock suits were being stored and kills them. On Thursday, William kidnaps three more children (Gabriel, Fritz, and Cassidy) and brings them to Freddy's to kill them. He kills the first two the same way as before but has a "special gift" for the third one. He stuffs them into the Golden Freddy suit, then allows their crying and screaming to trigger the springlocks, causing yet another springlock failure. Once he leaves, the Puppet (AKA Charlie), takes action and stuffs the bodies of the other four children into the suits in hopes of bringing them to life the same way she was. This leads to Susie possessing Chica, Jeremy possessing Bonnie, Gabriel possessing Freddy, and Fritz possessing Foxy. Cassidy, however, had already been strong enough to possess Golden Freddy herself due to the agony of the springlock failure. On Friday, the police investigate Freddy's and find the Golden Freddy suit laying in a pile of blood, leading Fazbear Entertainment to seal the room the suits were being kept in. William frames Henry for the incident, causing him to go to prison for a crime he didn't commit and giving sole ownership of Fazbear Entertainment to Afton Robotics. However, the dead bodies being kept inside the other four suits began to leak blood and emit a foul odor, eventually leading the restaurant to be shut down due to sanitation violations.
• Sunday, October 25th, 1987, through Saturday, October 31st, 1987 - Now with total control, William opens a new Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. The new restaurant used new models called the Toy animatronics, due to being based on various toys manufactured by Fazbear Entertainment. The initial plan was to reuse the original suits, but due to the bodies inside, William instead re-uses their parts for the new line of animatronics. This transfers the Remnant of the original animatronics to the new animatronics. While this was occurring, he also began work on opening a new location, Circus Baby's Pizza World, with more humanoid animatronics in the form of Baby & the Bidybabs, Ballora & the Minireenas, BB, and JJ. The location also had two additional animatronics, Funtime Freddy with his hand-puppet Bon Bon, and Funtime Foxy. The animatronics at Circus Baby's were built for the purpose of gaining more Remnant and were programmed to lure, capture, and kill children. Abby, however, developed an obsession with wanting to see Circus Baby. Starting on Tuesday, she begins begging her dad every day to play with Circus Baby. William, obviously not wanting one of his own kids to die again, refuses. On Saturday, however, Abby manages to escape William's view and see Circus Baby, leading to the animatronic doing as it was programmed: killing Abby and extracting her Remnant. William, distraught by the loss of yet another child, cancels the opening of Circus Baby's due to "gas leaks" and retires the animatronics to a storage facility underneath his house. However, BB, JJ, and Funtime Foxy were moved to Freddy's instead.
• Sunday, November 1st, 1987, through Saturday, November 14th, 1987 - William, now robbed of the location he had planned to use for testing, gets a job as a night guard at Freddy's under the fake name "Dave Miller" to obverse the location. At first things seem to be going smoothly, but the animatronics quickly recognize him and attempt to kill him repeatedly throughout his work week. By Saturday, November 7th, he contacts the restaurant as "Dave Miller" and reports the behavior of the animatronics, which leads to him being moved to the day shift and a new employee named Jeremy Fitzgerald (one of Mike's childhood friends) taking his place. During Jeremy's work week, Phone Guy calls him each night to update him on current events and guide him through his shift. William, still needing Remnant, uses his position as a day guard to kill five more unnamed children. This causes the animatronics to become even more aggressive and leads to "Dave Miller" being fired by the company. However, since William still owned the building, he closes the location publicly. However, he allows one family to have a birthday party on Saturday and sets up Jeremy as the day guard. The animatronics (likely Toy Chica), believing him to be William, cause the Bite of '87 and leave Jeremy without a frontal lobe. Following this, the location shuts down for good and William sends Mike under the fake name "Fritz Smith" to dismantle the animatronics and return them to him. He uses the parts he has to repair the original animatronics and re-open the original Freddy's location to very limited success. He also injects the Remnant from the Toy animatronics into the Funtimes and repairs Funtime Foxy (who had been torn apart by toddlers while he was there and become Mangle), making them more hostile than before.
• Sunday, November 1st, 1992, through Saturday, November 14th, 1992 - While the Phone Guy had managed to work as a night guard at the FNaF 1 location for a very long time, he eventually got old enough to retire on his last work week in November. As such, he begins to record a set of training tapes for the next in line for the job after him. Things go smoothly the first three nights, but on Wednesday the animatronics finally get the better of him. They kill him and stuff him in a Freddy suit in the back room. This gives William an idea. From November 7th to November 14th, he performs experiments on Mike by poisoning his room with fear gas during the day, leading him to have horrific nightmares of the Freddy's animatronics. During the night, he sends Mike to work at Freddy's again as a night guard under the last name "Schmidt". On Saturday, however, Mike listens to the tapes Phone Guy left and checks inside the animatronics, leading him to discover what his father had done. This leads to William "firing" Mike and to the experiments worsening over the next few years. After a while, Mike's fear of the experiments leads to him becoming completely subservient to William and wanting nothing more than to please him.
• Sunday, June 25th, 1995 - FNaF World...happens. It's hard to explain exactly WHAT happens since the game is built on metaphors and double meanings, but its events are important because they set up the events of FNaF 3, Pizzeria Simulator, and Ultimate Custom Night. All that we know for certain is that Mike opens the box (as seen in the game's files), he remembers everything that happened, and he is tasked with putting the pieces in place to help his younger brother. Could it be a dream, altered by the spirit of CC, the fear gas, or something else? Could it be an in-universe game he played that was kept in the box with the other toys, explaining the repeated use of Atari imagery in cutscenes and minigames? Or could it just be something silly Scott wanted to make used to represent Mike and CC's memories of the past? I have no clue, and I don't think anyone else truly does either, so I'll just say it happened and leave it at that. Although, something important to know for later is that Old Man Consequences in FNaF World is used to represent Henry, given their similar speech patterns and his cutscene in UCN.
• Monday, June 26th, 1995, through Friday, June 30th, 1995 - William, running low on Remnant after experimenting on the Funtimes, returns to Freddy's to extract more Remnant from the original animatronics now that the location has closed. He lures them into the same back room he killed the children in and dismantles them one-by-one. While he's there, he sends Mike to the underground storage facility, now named Circus Baby's Entertainment and Rentals, to "put his sister back together". On Thursday, the animatronics kidnap Mike and place him in a springlock suit, forcing him to watch Ballora be injected with the Remnant of the original animatronics before allowing him to leave. On Friday, however, both Mike and William run out of luck. The animatronics at Circus Baby's tear themselves apart and join together to form Ennard, who tricks Mike into following them into the Scooping Room. The Scooper tears out his insides and allows Ennard to use him as a skin suit. While this is occurring, the ghosts of the children from the MCI take form before William and frighten him. In response, he remembers how wearing an animatronic mask confused them, so he wears the Spring Bonnie suit in hopes it'll make them leave. However, the general lack of maintenance and the wet surroundings lead to him experiencing a springlock failure first-hand. He dies a karmic death, but the agony of the springlock failure leads to him possessing the suit and becoming Springtrap.
• Saturday, July 1st, 1995, through Saturday, July 8th, 1995 - In the week following Mike's death, Ennard uses his body for a while to attempt to fit in with the other people in town. However, they didn't account for Mike's body decomposing due to exposure to air and sunlight. By Friday, they decide to abandon ship and vomit themselves out of Mike's corpse, leading him to collapse. However, the Scooper also injected Mike with Remnant, allowing him to reanimate himself and regain consciousness. This leads to Saturday, July 8th, where Mike laments his life and vows to find his father and get revenge for all the damage he's caused. While this is happening, Ennard is beginning to fall apart. The majority (Funtime Freddy, Funtime Foxy, and Ballora) eject Circus Baby's parts from their body, leading to Circus Baby having to put herself back together in more ways than one and becoming Scrap Baby. However, this causes their Remnant to destabilize and become molten hot, leading to their form melting into an amorphous pile of Remnant and animatronic parts called Molten Freddy.
• Sunday, June 21st, 2015, through Friday, June 26th, 2015 - 30 years after the MCI at Fredy's and 20 years after the events at Circus Baby's Entertainment and Rental, a horror attraction called Fazbear's Fright opens. Mike, seeing this as an opportunity to find his father, again applies for a job as a night guard and works there for 6 days. On Sunday, he has no luck and just sits in an empty office. He writes in the Logbook given to him by Phone Dude, the owner of the attraction, and notices two spirits communicating in the book. He remembers the events of FNaF World and uses this opportunity to pick up the pieces left for him and free the souls of the children. On Monday, however, Phone Dude has "great" news for him. He found Springtrap (AKA his father) in the backroom of Freddy's and is using him for the attraction. He also found the first set of training tapes Phone Guy recorded and plays them for the rest of Mike's work week. Over the course of the week, he communicates with the spirits in the Logbook, sets up their "Happiest Day", and defends against his father's attempts to kill him all while dealing with faulty equipment and Remnant-based hallucinations. On Friday, after he's certain the pieces are in place and has learned who the people communicating in the Logbook are (CC for certain, but the other could be either Cassidy or Charlie depending on how you look at it), he burns the attraction to the ground with both of them inside. However, William escapes, leading Mike to return once again and give chase. The Puppet, who had been at the location alongside Mike since it opened, also follows suit.
• Sunday, October 25th, 2015, through Saturday, October 31st, 2015 - Henry is released from prison on Sunday after the police in town investigate the animatronics roaming the streets and discover Circus Baby's, proving he was innocent all along. After leaving, he comes up with a plan. He reuses a bunch of older animatronics from before Fredbear's opened and repurposes one named Carnie into LEFTE, who he uses to capture the Puppet. He also builds a fake pizzeria above ground, with an elaborate labyrinth of vents with a large empty room in the middle below ground. He hires a new manager for the location, and tasks them with salvaging any animatronics found in the underground room. After the manager leaves, they will seal the room behind them. Afterwards, once all the animatronic menaces lurking around are inside, he will burn the location to the ground with no chance of escape for anyone but the manager (including himself). However, something unexpected happens. Instead of some rando getting the job, William's son Mike takes the position instead. He follows Henry's instructions perfectly until Saturday, when Henry's plan has come to fruition and the location begins to catch fire. However, Henry knew that Mike was exactly where he wanted to be, and that he wouldn't use the escape Henry left for him. He gives one final speech as they all burn together.
• Post-October 31st, 2015 - This one will also be a bit controversial. After the smoke clears, all the souls still present are freed from their animatronic prisons and allowed to move on. That is, all except for two. William was still undeterred and was attempting to possess another vessel, and Mike still wanted to make his father suffer how he had suffered. So, using the Remnant of the other spirits, he drags William into a coma. A dream he will never awaken from where he experiences what Mike went through and is taunted by the children he killed over, and over, and over. Henry (through Old Man Consequences) tries to reason with him, urging him to let William burn in Hell and allow Happiest Day to come to fruition. But Mike won't let that happen. He will hold him there. He will keep him there. No matter how many times they're burned.

And that's it. This post took me all day writing out and double-checking to make sure I didn't get anything incorrect, but I'm sure there are a few typos or inconsistencies and that there are pieces of information I've missed. After all, no one knows all the answers about FNaF except Scott himself, and even Scott makes mistakes. But I feel confident in this and hope that it leaves some sort of impact.

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I know for years people have argued that "the internet is not reality" but now more than ever, there is a push to blur these lines to an insane degree and if you don't understand what goes on behind the scenes, you may not know what you're watching is fake. For those of us who did not grow up on an internet full of influencers, blatant and non-blatant advertisements, etc. it's very obvious when what's being portrayed isn't reality but even so, sometimes the information in front of us seems so believable that almost anyone can/will fall for it. I really worry about young GenZ/Gen Alpha who's internet experience is ONLY this current internet without adult experiences/understanding to sort through the bullshit.
Since these topics are quickly brushed off as only "terminally online" worries, I'll give examples I've seen so far. I will preface this by saying I acknowledge some of the comments I'll reference could be AI/bots/paid for comments but some of these sentiments I've seen here on Reddit/Instagram/Twitter that I can't only attribute it to purposeful misinformation.
Example 1: The realities of weight loss. Years ago, it used to not be uncommon for "health coaches"/"influencers"/etc to pop up on IG showing themselves losing a lot of weight. At this time, they'd claim they didn't change their diet and they barely exercise. But they still claim to have lost 100+lbs in a year or less in less time. Looking back, they used the lack of popularity in weight loss surgeries to their advantage. They could ask you to DM them and rope you into whatever they had because everyone didn't know about weight loss surgery like they do now. The reality is that they likely lost that weight over 1.5-2 years, scrubbed their IG and rebranded. Even without changing their diet (which I don't think really is true), they'd lose weight because they physically can't eat. Joe Smoe will not lose weight eating whatever with no thought and no exercise. Now, these people either promote weight loss surgery as the only way to lose weight or they try to deny it until it's called out and they do damage control. And of course, the people who lie and use other people's photos.
Regardless, I've noticed comments on people documenting their day one to weight loss being inundated with "If you ate like that, you wouldn't still be fat", "It's no way you go to the gym and still look like that". These accounts are usually younger kids who don't understand fitness and nutrition and calories in vs calories out. But I see adults doing it too. We've made weight loss look so fast that the people who are documenting their true journey/struggles are met with skepticism vs those that show a polished image.
Next example: I've started seeing these "Saving $xx,xxx by age x" reels. The few I see are realistic. It's usually someone working a full time job then a part time job with long hours. They line up how they're going to do it in the caption. But also, I saw one by this woman claiming she's going to save $100k by 23. She claims to have graduated college at 21 and travelled through college and still does. She let it slip that she isn't paying for a single living expense. But someone watching this likely isn't going through the comments. Young impressionable kids will not understand taxes, the average American income, etc. They'll think getting 2 jobs can have them save $100k in a very short amount of time and when they get hit with reality and their mental health worsens.
This is rambly at this point but my main point is that it seems the media on the internet is trying to blur the line of reality and fantasy by bombarding impressionable people with media that is highly tailored to look and seem like something anyone could do if you just try.

Hello Chadlets! It's time for the weekly meet-n-greet!
This thread is for people who want to participate in chasingchad but don't quite know how to get started. Say hi! Talk about something that's on your mind! Much like dating, the hardest step is putting yourself out there, so rip that band-aid off!

I post pretty often looking for new conversation, new friends, and ultimately I'd like to vibe with someone to date. I mean, don't we all wanna find someone? I get a moderate amount of success here (on reddit as opposed to dating apps) and I attribute it to my natural sense for what most people are feeling and some to my practiced writing style. Anyways, this post is about how effing often someone will say (without too much effort, mind you) that they liked my post and if they could see a picture and then ghost right after! It really gets my goat how casual and normalized it is because I understand if they arent attracted then they arent attracted but what if I just take bad pictures? Am I just that ugly when absolutely everyone I know tells me the opposite in person and when I put so much effort into myself already? I just don't get it some times and other times I just blame it on the luck of the draw, such is life. I simply wish I knew more about what people thought in that regard and never get an answer, man.
Thanks for letting me vent. I don't really take advice well unless it'a thoughtful, genuine, and justified so please tread lightly if you're doing more than reading. Otherwise, thanks for reading.
Harumph >:(

Hello everyone! It's my first time applying for a passport and I need it before June 18. How long would it take before it gets available for pick up? Will I make it before June 18? My appointment date is tomorrow. Also, is it possible to upgrade from regular processing to expedite processing on the exact day of appointment? Thank you so much in advance!

TA because I regularly use Reddit. I 18m have been told by my friends that my gf 21f groomed me into a toxic relationship, I have been having a hard time making my mind up about what to do or what to think, to start off I’ll give some backstory. Me and my gf met in school, she was in the same year as my sister 21f and they were friends, not really close but they hung around each other a lot because of their friendship groups.
My sister had a small friendship group throughout secondary school, they would come around to our house a lot Because my mum was at work week days till 8 pm so our house would be the hang out spot after school. My dad was not really in the picture, although he did provide for us he was never their physically so I never had an older male figure in my life, my sister looked after me all throughout my child hood and she was like my mum. My bio mum was still their and loved us and took care of us but because she was working all the time we rarely saw her during the week, she would get home around 9pm and go to sleep to be out by 6am the next day, during the week ends we would spend time together but because of this it was my sister that would take me to school, cook , care for me when I was sick. when she got into secondary school my mum drop all of her motherly duties like parents teacher meetings, doctor appointments things like that.
When my sister went into year 12 and I in year 9 ( the same school) her friendship group expanded as new people joined, one of these new people is my now gf Emma (fake name), she joined our school with a couple of her friends which then added on to my sister group and became one big group of about 8, these girls would often come to my house after school on Thursdays and Fridays, there would be about 4-5 of them over (rarely the full group) however this meant I hung around with them a lot because I was close to my sister. On Thursdays I would have football after school so I would come home at about 6 and they would all be sitting in the living room so I would see them and talk to them before showering and eating. And Friday I would walk home with them. Emma was not overly close with my sister so a lot of the time she would only go if her best friend went so I didn’t really see her much during that year. However the year after an issue happened and her best friend’s was kick out of the group, after that Emma became a lot close to one of the girls who was apart of my sister’s original group. She then started coming regularly to my house.
As a young teen boy I had a crush on a lot of my sisters friends and they use to tease me about it a lot, they all use to say that if I was a bit older the would love to date me. One day I was talking to my sister and confessed I had a big crush on Emma, and as my sister did she teased me about it in front of her friends including Emma they all laughed and joke about it and this time I don’t know why but it made me upset and I excused my self and went to my room I guess they saw I was upset and my sister came to check on me, she apologised and said that they were just joking and didn’t mean to upset me, I told her I was fine and that it was getting a bit annoying as they always did it, and it made me feel insecure. I know I was overthinking but I was young and still developing, I wasn’t ugly or anything in fact I think I was quite good looking, I was quite popular but never really wanted to date as I focused more on my football and friends, I had a fair bit of female attention for girls in my year and had lots of female friends so I don’t know why I was so upset about being teased. Anyway my sister went back down to her friends and I guess told them what I said as a I got a knock on my door a few minutes later, I said come in and Emma walked through the door she looked a bit guilty, she said she wanted to apologise as she felt like she shouldn’t have made fun of my feelings I said it was ok and knew it was just light joking. She then said that I was very handsome and fit, I of course blushed and she noticed and smiled, she came over to my desk where I was sitting and ask what I was doing, I was doing some math homework and she said that she was really good at math and could tutor me. I remember my sister saying that Emma was really smart and did maths, further maths and physics for her a-levels. I was not very good at maths and had GCSEs coming up next year so I ask her if she could help me prepare for them. She told me she would next year but she needs to prepare for her a-levels this year. She left shortly after helping with a few questions. She continued to come to my house throughout that year and we had conversations often nothing flirty or sexual in any nature, just boring topics like school and football (I am 15 she is 18)
During that summer my sister and her group booked a holiday before they all went off to uni. A couple of days before they left 3 girls came over (including Emma) after they had been shopping, they were in my sisters room most of the time and they were also trying clothes in shared bathroom. After playing on my game I need the toilet, I looked and saw the light was on and the door was slightly opened thinking no one was in there I opened to see Emma in a bikini looking in the mirror she noticed me and jumped. I apologised and went back to my room. I later heard a knock on my door and Emma walked in she was wearing a tracksuit but after seeing her in a bikini all I could do was in-vision that, I stared at the floor because I was embarrassed, she giggled and said that I shouldn’t of been peaking on her, I jumped up and said I wasn’t and that it was an accident. She said that she didn’t mind and that boys like to look at her. She was very pretty and had nice curves, and very popular with boys but never really date from what I heard. She then started to undress I asked what she was doing, she said she wanted a boy input and since I already saw her in her bikini it’s fine. She stood there posing in her bikini before asking how she look and of course I said she looks great, she smiled and said that she was happy I liked it. I was very embarrassed as I wasn’t in this situation a lot, after she put her clothes back on she left my room and I went back to playing. I didn’t see her for the rest of that summer but the memory popped up in my head a lot. That next year she attend the same uni as my sister as they both didn’t want to leave home so they became closer and shes at my house a lot but acted as though it never happened gradually I did to.
around November I got a gf this wasn’t my first experience with a girl but it was my first relationship and I relied on my sister a lot to help me through it. She obviously told Emma and she helped me as-well giving advise on what girls like, she also kept true on my promise and tutored me in math for my GCSEs we would do 2 hour lessons every Wednesday and Sunday, we became quite close and bonded really well. On Wednesday she would come to my house and Sundays I would go to hers she would also come and see my sister through out the week and I started seeing her as like a second sister. This is where things take a turn in April (I am 16 now) me and my gf broke up and I was devastated as this was my first relationship and I really tried. A day or two after the break up Emma came round to see my sister, after a couple of hours she came to my room to say hello, she saw I was quite sad and asked me what was wrong and I told her about my brake up. She hugged me and said that it was normal to be sad and said if there was anything she could do to make it better to just asked her, I said jokingly get me a new gf, she laughs and said I would happy to be your gf if you want. I laughed and said that would be perfect. She then said that I was a great guy and any girl would be happy to be with me, she kissed me on the cheek and left I didn’t think anything of it, as I said I saw her like a sister and that’s something my sister would do, that was until I told my best friend (d), D 18m and I have been best friends since the start of secondary and he knows everything that’s happened with Emma, he’s also met her a couple of time at my house. After explaining what happened I was laughing and he wasn’t he looked at me and told me that she wants me, I thought he was joking and laughed again but he was still straight faced. After that I went home and thought about it and I decided that d was just being stupid.
The next time Emma and I did tutoring lessons I notice she was being a lot more flirty, I started to think d was right. His opinion solidified when one Sunday at her house, we were finishing up our last session as my exams were in a week she told me how proud she was and that I had gotten much better and that I will do really well on my exam, she then said that she had a reward for me. I was surprised because she never said that I would get a reward for doing well, I accepted anyway and ask what it was she said it was a secret and I should sit on the bed, she left the room and I sat on her bed. after a few minutes she came back in wearing the bikini she had gotten last summer I was shock and looked away, she said that it was okay and that this was my reward, I was uncomfortable and didn’t know what to say. She came closer and sat next to me on the bed she told me that when she was comforting me when I broke up with my gf she was happy that I said that I would want her to be my gf, she said that the boys that were interested in her never wanted a relationship and just want her body, this explains her not dating, I said that I thought we were just joking, she looked upset and I said that I would love if she was my gf but it would be weird as she’s my sister friend, she then said that she’s just rewarding me and didn’t actually want to date me, just saying that I made her happy with my comment, this confused me as she look sad when I said I didn’t want her to be my gf. She then hugged me pulling me into her half bare chest saying that for now to treat her as my gf, I didn’t know what to do I was really confused. Does she want to be my gf? What does she want me to do? I pulled away from her and said we should watch a movie or something as this situation was making me uncomfortable. She said that’s a great Idea. We got set up and put on a film we were lying on her bed when she turns and said, I told you to treat me as your gf and started to cuddle me, as the movie went on she was making more moves and started to rub my legs and arms. I got really turn on and as she rubbed my leg she brushed over my **** and said if I wanted to she wouldn’t mind helping me out. I was flustered and apologised saying she didn’t need to, she said it was ok and started rubbing it, we ended up having sex and I went home. When I got home my sister was sitting in the living room with her at the time bf, she asked me how my session went and I said good and ran up stairs. I instantly called d and told him what happened he was laughing and said I told you so, he ask how it felt and I told him that I wasn’t very comfortable doing it with her but in the moment she kinda just lead me to do it so I followed. He ask if I wanted to and I said of course hypothetically but I didn’t feel comfortable that it was actually happening. I said that I really only did it because she was telling me it was ok. He said that I should let Emma know how I was feeling so that it didn’t happen again. I messaged her on ig and told her what I told d, she replied saying that I should come over so I could explain better.
The next day I went over after school, her parents went home and she doesn’t have siblings normally I wouldn’t think about this when going over to do lessons but now it felt different, I went in and sat on the sofa she got me a drink and sat next to me, she then ask how I was feeling I explained my emotions and how I felt during and after, she listen intently and after apologised for making me feel like that. She then said that I was probably feeling guilty as she’s my sisters friend, I agreed as when I saw my sister after I couldn’t look her in the eye, she said that it was normal and ok to feel that way, she then asked if I enjoyed the sex, I replied yes, she asked if it was better then my ex which it was as we were each other first and didn’t really know what we were doing, I replied yes again, she then asked if I would want to do it again, I said idk, she said that it might make me feel better if we do it again as sometimes people are not sure how they feel after doing it just once, I hesitantly agreed, so we started to make out on the sofa, after 5-10 minutes I started to feel better and less guilty as it was a nice feeling, she stopped and said we should go to her room, I agreed we had sex again a couple of times before he parents got home. I left and went home I was felt a lot better this time so I thought Emma was right and that it was just a overwhelming emotions that make me feel that way the first time, when I got home I was able to speak to my sister normally but didn’t tell her what happened as I didn’t know how she would react. I continued going the Emma’s house every week, it was like this until the end of my exams. During summer we started properly dating, I ended up telling my sister and she was angry at first but forgave us pretty quick, during the time we was dating Emma would tell me how I need to act and what I needed to do to be a good bf, I believed her as I thought she was more experienced, she would tell me that I shouldn’t have female friends as they are temptations that could effect our relationship, and that she should be prioritised above my friends, I started hanging with Emma more and friends less the only friend I talked to and saw regularly was d. At around the end of summer (August) I asked her to be my gf officially she said yes, but being my gf comes with more rules, she said we need to spend time together 2/3 times a week minimum and that she needs my location, access to my socials I agreed to these as I thought it was normal the only thing I didn’t agree to was to stop talking to d as often, she said I was prioritising him over her and that she doesn’t feel like I actually love her, and that if I did I would agree, I said that she was stupid if she thought that and told her I would not be agreeing to go lc with d, she got upset and ghosted me for 3 days I ended up apologising and agreed to stop talking and seeing d as much, he went to a different sixth form to me so I couldn’t see him in school anymore, this made me sad as he was my best friend and we would see each other all the time, yet I agreed as I thought it’s was normal in relationship, this has been the way our relationship was for the past 9 months, I have been happy with her and loved her, we have our arguments but it usually ends up as her airing me and then me eventually apologising and then going back to normal. We spent a lot of time together and have sex regularly I genuinely thought I was happy unit now.
Last week I went out with some friends for leavers as school is finished and exam period is coming up, we had our last day and Friday we decided to go out, I was with d and other friends from our group when 2 hours in I get a call from Emma asking where I was i told her I was out with friends for leavers, she was upset and said that I was supposed to be with her today, I told her that I haven’t gone out in a long time and that I’ll see her later. She said that I needed to leave and get to her within an hour and hung up. I apologised to my friends and got ready to leave, they all had shocked faces, I asked what was wrong and they said that they herd the way she was speaking to me and that wasn’t right, d then said that he had been wanting to speak to me about it for a long time, I asked what he meant and he said that he had been thinking about my relationship with Emma and said that he thinks I was groomed into a toxic relationship with her. He then went on to explain everything to our friends who didn’t previously know how we started dating (only d knew everything) they were all shocked and my female friends were asking if I was ok and saying they would never treat their bfs like that I was confused as I thought this was normal in a relationship, we had a long discussion about my relationship with Emma and i started to realise that I am in a toxic relationship. I ended up leaving after an hour and went to see Emma I apologised for being late and she was a bit annoyed but forgave me. I didn’t confront her then because I was still confused about my emotions and d said that she might manipulate me and turn it onto me so I took his advice and stayed quite about it and just observe her behaviour. D was previously in a toxic relationship and knew how they acted and how they manipulated people into believing that their not in the wrong, I told her about how nice it was to see all of my friends again and told her what we were doing, she started asking me about who was there. I told her my friendship group and some old female friends and just like d said she started making me out to be a bad person for hanging around other females, I didn’t say anything and just carried on as normal apologising and comforting her. We moved on and I stayed then night, the next day I went home and spoke to d and told him what happened, he said I need to leave now before it’s to late and I will be too attached to her to leave.
That’s why I am here I am asking for advice on what I should do next, I am sure I need to leave but I don’t know how to, I love her and I feel like she could possibly manipulate me into staying. How do I get out of this toxic relationship.

I am in hell guys, seriously in hell rn.
I separated from my fiance because I have some serious mental health issues and I wanted to work on loving myself and work through my mental health issues to become a better person. I moved out on Sunday 28th April, we slept together the Saturday. I was trying to find a rental but I had no luck, he said we should separate properly and I move to my parents house. So we did that. 5 days after I moved out he went on a date. He went to dinner with a chick he has seen every single day for the past year (or longer) when he buys his morning coffee... from the local service station. He told me about the date out of "respect", but quite frankly, I feel he doesn't respect me because of what he did. Moving on so fast when apparently he says he would still marry me.
HOW DO I GET OVER THIS? HOW DO I STOP BEING ANGRY AND HURT AND SAD AND TORN UP? 😭💔

Sup jaw. Started coding a program this weekend to pull down all NPORT-P filings so I and other apes could start to further track fuckery through ETFs (lending stats specifically), and almost instantly found something that doesn't show up on whalewisdom or fintel, making me think these 'swap' filings (like the one I'll be showing you) invovling GameStop maybe have slipped through the cracks of most websites all this time.
Okay, you may be very confused at this point. NPORT-P is the filing used by ETFs and mutual funds to report their portfolio to the SEC which includes things like how much of certain securities are in their holdings, how much of their portfolio they're lending out, return numbers, etc.. NPORT-P filings are how whalewisdom and fintel are able to provide you stats on ETFs and mutual funds.
Aight. So here's the filing both whalewisdom and fintel are currently missing that was filed on Friday 08-20-21: image of important filing header and holding in question, and the link to filing (will crash browser if not on above average PC).
If you look back at the screenshots of whalewisdom or fintel, you can see it's missing.
But why would it be missing? It's because Nationwide is marking the holding as an 'ETRS' with the unique identifier being an 'Inhouse Asset ID'. That's usually where you would see GameStop and GameStop's CUSIP, respectively, thus these are getting missed by programs.
In the image, the places I've underlined in black, those are the spots which make this holding unusual compared to all other holdings of GME in NPORT filings I've manually looked through over the months (the whole derivatives section is never there, this is the first time I've seen it actually filled out).
The places I've highlighted in yellow are just showing the important ties between GME and this filing.
Can anyone make sense of this and explain exactly what's going on here?
The maturity date is just a year out from this filing: 06-30-22 (even though it was filed 08-20-21, it's reporting for 06-30-21). But, there's also options that expire in mid-June 2022.
For reference, if you look at this filing you can see the two different ways which GameStop positions are typically reported in NPORT-P filings (one way is the holding for shares, the other way is the holding for options, just using CTRL+F 'GameStop' to find).
If no one cares to help, I'll report back once I've had time to digest everything but I'm really hoping for some teamwork here so I can continue coding. I'm rushing this post out so eyes can get on this shit, let me know if I need to elaborate on some of the shit I've said (or didn't say for that matter).
Thanks apes <3
edit: fixed whalewisdom image
edit2: damn y'all hopped on this quick. thanks for your attention. this can be considered 'figured out' or 'solved'.
turns out I only found the same thing u/Purple-Artichoke-687 found here 2 days ago: https://old.reddit.com/DDintoGME/comments/p7wguw/found_a_new_term_obfr_i_havent_seen_in_any_dd_and/ but rather than having found the compiled report, I found the report for the single fund which the compiled report references indirectly. The one piece of information missing from the compiled report that is in the NPORT-P is this under the 'Upfront payments or receipts' portion: iv. Notional amount = $6,601,722. Aside from that, just know these swap agreements aren't showing up on the popular sites we use to check holdings.
read FlacidPasta 's comment below for more info into what this all means: https://old.reddit.com/DDintoGME/comments/p9iz74/found_equity_total_return_swap_etrs_involving/h9yfu0s/
If you read through all this and feel cheated or baited. Here's something no one else has mentioned: Invesco has lent out more GME than it has twice in the past year. XSVM's NPORT reporting for 2021-04-30: $18,748,554.09 out of $18,121,928.05. XSVM's NPORT reporting for 2020-07-31: $536743.30 out of $530,266.36. Also, here's the borrowers of XSVM's GME shares from 04-30-21: Citi = $3,249,824.55 BofA = $7,985,283.18 UBS = $4,282,474.14 Mizuho = $3,069,758.37 Janney Montgomery Scott = $161,213.85
Thanks everyone <3
edit3: thanks for all the help, info, nice words and awards. apes ain't left huh? they just needed something new to fucks with.
anyways, wanted to give an update for some findings I found today. Invesco is a bag of shit. Look at those percentages of overlending below, specifically the one reported January 31st 2021. Oof. Think I hit the nail on the head with that one. By the way, Invesco is located in the douchiest of suburbs of Chicago... Downer's Grove. Anyone from around there can attest to that.
Invesco PureBetaSM MSCI USA Small Cap ETF (S000058747): 2020-05-31 https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgadata/0001378872/000175272420148730/primary_doc.xml GameStop: 186.76000000 USD (46.00000000 shares) Lending: 502.28000000 / 186.76000000 (268.94%) with NON-Reinvested cash and was NOT received as collateral
Invesco BuyBack AchieversTM ETF (S000013111): 2021-01-31 https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgadata/0001209466/000175272421068896/primary_doc.xml GameStop: 80600.00000000 USD (248.00000000 shares) Lending: 935281.60000000 / 80600.00000000 (1,160.40%) with NON-Reinvested cash and was NOT received as collateral there's only 3 I found back to the filing date of 07-01-2020, one of them being the one I posted here today, another being the same fund from 3 months ago, then some putnam panagora. LOOK AT THE TERMINATION DATE OF THE PUTNAM SWAP (2025-01-28, exactly 4 years out from the day RH stole the buy button).
Putnam PanAgora Market Neutral Fund (S000058312): 2021-02-28 https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgadata/0000932101/000086939221000828/primary_doc.xml SWP - MORGAN STANLEY AND CO. INTERNATIONAL Instrument Name: GAMESTOP CORP-CLASS A, Instrument Title: COMMON STOCK Receipts: Floating, index FEDERAL FUNDS EFFECTIVE RATE US, spread -1.77, amount -17.03 USD Rate Tenor is 1 Month, Reset every 1 Month Pay: Floating, index GAMESTOP CORP, spread 0, amount 0 USD Rate Tenor is 1 Month, Reset every 1 Month Termination Date: 2025-01-28 Upfront Payment: 0 USD Upfront Receipts: 0 USD Notational Amount: 3301.56 USD Appreciation/Depreciation: -378.11 USD
NVIT U.S. 130/30 Equity Fund (S000067312): 2021-03-31 https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgadata/0000353905/000175272421105000/primary_doc.xml SWP - JPMorgan Chase Bank Instrument Name: GameStop Corp., Class A, Instrument Title: GameStop Corp., Class A Receipts: Floating, index Federal Funds, spread -4.07000000, amount 0.00000000 USD Rate Tenor is 1 Month, Reset every 1 Month Pay: Floating, index N/A, spread 0.00000000, amount 0.00000000 USD Rate Tenor is 0 Month, Reset every 0 Month Termination Date: 2022-03-31 Upfront Payment: 0.00000000 USD Upfront Receipts: 0.00000000 USD Notational Amount: 5851961.00000000 USD Appreciation/Depreciation: -262663.08000000 USD
NVIT U.S. 130/30 Equity Fund (S000067312): 2021-06-30 https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgadata/0000353905/000175272421178646/primary_doc.xml SWP - JPMorgan Chase Bank Instrument Name: GameStop Corp., Class A, Instrument Title: GameStop Corp., Class A Receipts: Floating, index Federal Funds, spread -0.92500000, amount 0.00000000 USD Rate Tenor is 1 Month, Reset every 1 Month Pay: Floating, index N/A, spread 0.00000000, amount 0.00000000 USD Rate Tenor is 0 Month, Reset every 0 Month Termination Date: 2022-06-30 Upfront Payment: 0.00000000 USD Upfront Receipts: 0.00000000 USD Notational Amount: 6601722.00000000 USD Appreciation/Depreciation: -27437.81000000 USD here's the full list: https://pastebin.com/ePKQj0Ey. It has all the funds that were overlending if their NPORT was filed from 07-01-2020 to 08-22-2021, as well as any fund that wrote/purchased contracts as well as those few swaps.
will being making it more digestible in the future. also will start looking using more identifier's like the cusip and shiz to see if I find anything more. for instance, here's a filing https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgadata/0001056707/000177569720000975/ that doesn't even have a readable XML available (which is how I'm digesting the data), so will need to see what's happening there.
was hoping to find more swaps. but I'll be searching more and will keep you updated, apes.
edit 4: last edit for the night. there were a handful of filings that still had something in them that I wasn't sure what they were... turns out they are the corporate debt/bonds for GameStop. Anyways, while there's a good amount of these holdings reported since 07-01-2020, only a handful were lending these out... they're below:
Invesco BulletShares 2021 High Yield Corporate Bond ETF (S000060832): 2020-05-31 https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgadata/0001657201/000175272420149074/primary_doc.xml GameStop: 5151357.23000000 USD (6753000.00000000 Principal amount) Coupon Kind: Fixed, Annual Rate: 6.75000000, Maturity Date: 2021-03-15, Defaulted (Y/N): N, Arrears or Coupons (Y/N): N, PaidInKind (Y/N): N Lending: 3205235.49000000 / 5151357.23000000 (62.22%) with NON-Reinvested cash and was NOT received as collateral
PIMCO 0-5 Year High Yield Corporate Bond Index Exchange-Traded Fund (S000028996): 2020-09-30 https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgadata/0001450011/000145001120000855/primary_doc.xml GameStop: 2924055.000000 USD (3231000.000000 Principal amount) Coupon Kind: Fixed, Annual Rate: 10, Maturity Date: 2023-03-15, Defaulted (Y/N): N, Arrears or Coupons (Y/N): N, PaidInKind (Y/N): N Lending: 1936700.000000 / 2924055.000000 (66.23%) with NON-Reinvested cash and was NOT received as collateral
PIMCO 0-5 Year High Yield Corporate Bond Index Exchange-Traded Fund (S000028996): 2020-06-30 https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgadata/0001450011/000145001120000650/primary_doc.xml GameStop: 2350478.130000 USD (2945000.000000 Principal amount) Coupon Kind: Fixed, Annual Rate: 6.75, Maturity Date: 2021-03-15, Defaulted (Y/N): N, Arrears or Coupons (Y/N): N, PaidInKind (Y/N): N Lending: 176385.630000 / 2350478.130000 (7.50%) with NON-Reinvested cash and was NOT received as collateral
iShares 0-5 Year High Yield Corporate Bond ETF (S000042353): 2020-07-31 https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgadata/0001100663/000175272420197503/primary_doc.xml GameStop: 2815905.00000000 USD (3246000.00000000 Principal amount) Coupon Kind: Fixed, Annual Rate: 6.75000000, Maturity Date: 2021-03-15, Defaulted (Y/N): N, Arrears or Coupons (Y/N): N, PaidInKind (Y/N): N Lending: 141402.50000000 / 2815905.00000000 (5.02%) with NON-Reinvested cash and was NOT received as collateral
iShares 0-5 Year High Yield Corporate Bond ETF (S000042353): 2020-10-31 https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgadata/0001100663/000175272420272738/primary_doc.xml GameStop: 2992255.00000000 USD (2996000.00000000 Principal amount) Coupon Kind: Fixed, Annual Rate: 6.75000000, Maturity Date: 2021-03-15, Defaulted (Y/N): N, Arrears or Coupons (Y/N): N, PaidInKind (Y/N): N Lending: 1359298.75000000 / 2992255.00000000 (45.43%) with NON-Reinvested cash and was NOT received as collateral
iShares 0-5 Year High Yield Corporate Bond ETF (S000042353): 2021-01-31 https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgadata/0001100663/000175272421068774/primary_doc.xml GameStop: 1098618.08000000 USD (1097000.00000000 Principal amount) Coupon Kind: Fixed, Annual Rate: 6.75000000, Maturity Date: 2021-03-15, Defaulted (Y/N): N, Arrears or Coupons (Y/N): N, PaidInKind (Y/N): N Lending: 261384.97500000 / 1098618.08000000 (23.79%) with NON-Reinvested cash and was NOT received as collateral
SPDR Bloomberg Barclays Short Term High Yield Bond ETF (S000036414): 2020-06-30 https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgadata/0001064642/000175272420177388/primary_doc.xml GameStop: 1618457.22000000 USD (2021000.00000000 Principal amount) Coupon Kind: Fixed, Annual Rate: 6.75000000, Maturity Date: 2021-03-15, Defaulted (Y/N): N, Arrears or Coupons (Y/N): N, PaidInKind (Y/N): N Lending: 1246471.11000000 / 1618457.22000000 (77.02%) with NON-Rei

My FP is my best friend for 4 years now, and we've been through a lot together but nowadays our whole friendship confuses me. We used to date, until one day I just randomly decided I wanted to be away from them, because they pissed me off for stupid reasons. A while later, we started talking again even though I told myself I wouldn't, and to be honest I don't even know why. While we weren't talking and were separated, I felt like I was actually myself, and things were a lot more clear to me, I didn't feel amazing but it didn't feel worse. Now that I started talking to them again, things are getting confusing. I don't know how I feel about them, and everytime I talk about it, they sometimes ignore the messages all together. I feel like they just don't care about me, but at the same time, somehow they've still been there with me when shit happened throughout my life, and I feel guilty for hurting them. They haven't been malicious, they've never gotten seriously angry at me or anything. At the same time they cause me serious anxiety, and I'm also scared I'm wearing them out, because I depend on them an unhealthy amount. I just feel like it's bad enough for both of us, yet I still decided to come back the first time. It'd be even worse this time if I tell them I'm leaving AGAIN. What should I say?

Hey! As title said, I'm building a new team for gen 9 OU because my old team has fallen heavily out of date, for this team I really just threw together some pokemon I liked that I knew were good and very vaguely build them around certain roles but I can already see some pretty glaring holes in this team that I'm now sure how to fix, thanks in advance! The team is:
Birdy (Skarmory) (M) @ Rocky Helmet Ability: Sturdy Shiny: Yes Tera Type: Dragon EVs: 252 HP / 160 Def / 96 Spe Bold Nature IVs: 0 Atk - Body Press - Iron Defense - Roost - Stealth Rock
When I first made this team, I immediately wanted a bulky pokemon with a good typing that can set rocks and work as a lead which landed me on Skarmory, the Skarmory's strat isn't too impressive, just come in, set rocks, iron defence a few times then spam body press till it died, simple but it works about as well as I hoped.
NYOWM (Deoxys-Speed) @ Life Orb Ability: Pressure Shiny: Yes Tera Type: Fighting EVs: 4 Atk / 252 SpA / 252 Spe Naive Nature - Psycho Boost - Superpower - Knock Off - Ice Beam
As my second favourite pokemon behind Heracross, Deoxys was a no-brainer for this team, I wanted this deoxys to be my primary wallbreake clean up mon, giving it a mixed set so that is able to kill as many pokemon as possible in preparation for gambit, I gave it tera fighting so that it can hopefully survive a gambit sucker punch in the right situation and one shot with superpower
Sanders (Blaziken) @ Leftovers Ability: Speed Boost Tera Type: Water EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe Adamant Nature - U-turn - Protect - Close Combat - Flare Blitz
Next, I realised that I probably wanted a pivot mon so that I could get my big wallbreakers in that could also function on it's own perfectly fine which lead me to Blaziken which after a turn 1 protect can outspeed most opponents and very often one shot with either CC or Flare Blitz, I also gave it u-turn so that it can function as a reliable pivot that can get my other bulkier mons in too after it has used one of it's big moves.
Cerbeyums (Hydrapple) @ Assault Vest Ability: Regenerator Tera Type: Fairy EVs: 252 HP / 8 Def / 56 SpA / 192 SpD Modest Nature - Draco Meteor - Giga Drain - Earth Power - Fickle Beam
After this, I realised that I didn't really have any mon that could take a hit and dish out a lot of damage at the same time but also that I didn't have a pokemon that could function inside of trick room which lead me to Hydrapple which is both slow and bulky, but also incredibly strong, able to take out some very big threats with ease and also synergizing well with my Blaziken as it is able to take water. rock and ground type moves like a champ, especially with the assault vest assisting it's bulk.
Creaming (Primarina) @ Assault Vest Ability: Torrent Shiny: Yes Tera Type: Ground EVs: 80 HP / 252 SpA / 176 Spe Modest Nature - Sparkling Aria - Moonblast - Flip Turn - Psychic Noise
lastly, I realised my team had quite the issue with fire types now, with no pokemon being outright super effective against them, I also realised that I lacked a valid answer to Roaring Moon or Raging Bolt which lead me to Primarina which can make great use of both it's base types and tera ground to handle these difficult matchups, I've also seen it have relative success against Zapdos.
LAST STAND (Kingambit) (M) @ Leftovers Ability: Supreme Overlord Tera Type: Fairy EVs: 212 HP / 252 Atk / 44 Spe Adamant Nature - Swords Dance - Kowtow Cleave - Sucker Punch - Iron Head
it's a Kingambit, nothing you haven't seen before, I built this one bulkier so that it can set up easier, though I'm unsure whether this is the correct decision over a standard fast build
Thank You in advance!