RIP School Survival Forums
August 2001 - June 2017

The School Survival Forums are permanently retired. If you need help with quitting school, unsupportive parents or anything else, there is a list of resources on the Help Page.

If you want to write about your experiences in school, you can write on our blog.

To everyone who joined these forums at some point, and got discouraged by the negativity and left after a while (or even got literally scared off): I'm sorry.

I wasn't good enough at encouraging people to be kinder, and removing people who refuse to be kind. Encouraging people is hard, and removing people creates conflict, and I hate conflict... so that's why I wasn't better at it.

I was a very, very sensitive teen. The atmosphere of this forum as it is now, if it had existed in 1996, would probably have upset me far more than it would have helped.

I can handle quite a lot of negativity and even abuse now, but that isn't the point. I want to help people. I want to help the people who need it the most, and I want to help people like the 1996 version of me.

I'm still figuring out the best way to do that, but as it is now, these forums are doing more harm than good, and I can't keep running them.

Thank you to the few people who have tried to understand my point of view so far. I really, really appreciate you guys. You are beautiful people.

Everyone else: If after everything I've said so far, you still don't understand my motivations, I think it's unlikely that you will. We're just too different. Maybe someday in the future it might make sense, but until then, there's no point in arguing about it. I don't have the time or the energy for arguing anymore. I will focus my time and energy on people who support me, and those who need help.

-SoulRiser

The forums are mostly read-only and are in a maintenance/testing phase, before being permanently archived. Please use this time to get the contact details of people you'd like to keep in touch with. My contact details are here.

Please do not make a mirror copy of the forums in their current state - things will still change, and some people have requested to be able to edit or delete some of their personal info.


Post Reply 
 
Thread Rating:
  • 0 Vote(s) - 0 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
Birthday today.
Author Message
HeartofShadows Offline
Fanatic

Posts: 8,557
Joined: Dec 2006
Thanks: 0
Given 80 thank(s) in 73 post(s)
Post: #1
Birthday today.

Topic. Laugh

22 years old and I haven't been killed by stray gun fire or arrested yet.

[Image: WARZONES_subs_hostility.png]
image hosting jpg
12-28-2010 04:37 AM
Find all posts by this user Quote this message in a reply
Faby Offline
work in progress

Posts: 3,446
Joined: Mar 2008
Thanks: 3
Given 61 thank(s) in 45 post(s)
Post: #2
Re: Birthday today.

Hug

Let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes common as grass.

~~

Good fortune follows upon disaster;
Disaster lurks within good fortune;
Who can say how things will end?
Perhaps there is no end.
12-28-2010 06:06 AM
Find all posts by this user Quote this message in a reply
magikarp Offline
Valerie Solanas

Posts: 1,146
Joined: Jan 2007
Thanks: 4
Given 68 thank(s) in 47 post(s)
Post: #3
Re: Birthday today.

Enjoy your birthday old man. Hug

"Do we treat straight public sex differently than we do gay public sex? Of course. Straight people are so proud of their public sex that they named a cocktail after it."
12-28-2010 06:15 AM
Find all posts by this user Quote this message in a reply
MorikoMisa Offline
Fanatic

Posts: 2,771
Joined: Aug 2009
Thanks: 0
Given 3 thank(s) in 3 post(s)
Post: #4
Re: Birthday today.

U OLD!
Nah, just kidding. Happy birthday, man, go get yourself some good food and a cat. Biggrin

*SPARKLING* *DOUCHEBUCKETS.*
12-28-2010 06:24 AM
Find all posts by this user Quote this message in a reply
The Desert Fox Offline
Waging war with conviction

Posts: 12,063
Joined: Jul 2008
Thanks: 3
Given 102 thank(s) in 75 post(s)
Post: #5
Re: Birthday today.

One more year closer to death. Enjoy.

Hidden stuff:
Biggrin

Hidden stuff:
(11-27-2011 01:00 PM)psychopath Wrote:  
(11-27-2011 10:52 AM)Efs Wrote:  Our Army is more professional than Amerika. Smile
Except ours isn't allowed to have guns
CrayolaColours Wrote:That post owned. TDF wins post of the year.
Faby Wrote:
krissy Wrote:dessert fox
Mmm, flambéed vulpine.
"There is no enemy, there is no victory, only boys who lost their lives in the sand."
[/center]
12-28-2010 06:36 AM
Find all posts by this user Quote this message in a reply
HeartofShadows Offline
Fanatic

Posts: 8,557
Joined: Dec 2006
Thanks: 0
Given 80 thank(s) in 73 post(s)
Post: #6
Re: Birthday today.

Aww I love you guys and to think I was gonna pull a Crayola and bawl that nobody cared.

Hidden stuff:
Jk Smile

[Image: WARZONES_subs_hostility.png]
image hosting jpg
12-28-2010 06:41 AM
Find all posts by this user Quote this message in a reply
Rebelnerd Offline
Fanatic

Posts: 8,781
Joined: Aug 2005
Thanks: 0
Given 113 thank(s) in 97 post(s)
Post: #7
Re: Birthday today.

22? How are you able to type right now? Everyone knows that you spend the next three years after your 21st birthday in an alcohol-induced stupor.

I think Buenaventura Durruti is a pretty cool guy. eh kills fascists and doesnt afraid of ruins.
The quickest way to kill a revolution is to wait for it.
12-28-2010 08:06 AM
Find all posts by this user Quote this message in a reply
Aya Offline
Banned

Posts: 2,712
Joined: Aug 2005
Thanks: 3
Given 45 thank(s) in 36 post(s)
Post: #8
Re: Birthday today.

Rebelnerd Wrote:22? How are you able to type right now? Everyone knows that you spend the next three years after your 21st birthday in an alcohol-induced stupor.

Honestly drinking alcohol to the point of stupidity loses it's thrill after you hit 21. Especially after your first night praying to the porcelain god... I will never again drink disorono
12-28-2010 08:11 AM
Find all posts by this user Quote this message in a reply
Sociopath Offline
©o℗yright Infringe®

Posts: 3,692
Joined: Mar 2008
Thanks: 682
Given 160 thank(s) in 104 post(s)
Post: #9
Re: Birthday today.

Happy Birthday, mortal!

Hidden stuff:
TRIGGER WARNING: THIS TRIGGER WARNING CONTAINS TRIGGER WARNINGS!

Dear Tumblrites: Despite your wrongly self-diagnosed PTSD, no line of scientific evidence suggests people can be triggered over the internet. Triggering works through the senses (i.e. smell, taste, touch, vision, hearing.) but it goes through real time; if you're not experiencing it in real life as it's ACTUALLY HAPPENING in your ACTUAL life, you CANNOT be triggered. The only exception to this is if you have a seizure, but then again, that's triggered by epilepsy (i.e. rapidly-changing flashing lights) NOT PTSD. Remembering a bad incident is NOT the same thing as having a flashback. When you remember, you think; when you flashback, you feel.

#HashTagsAreForIdiots

[Image: violator_blackbg_110x32.gif]
Max Stirnir Wrote:"In the time of spirits thoughts grew till they overtopped my head, whose offspring they yet were; they hovered about me and convulsed me like fever-phantasies -- an awful power. The thoughts had become corporeal on their own account, were ghosts, e. g. God, Emperor, Pope, Fatherland, etc. If I destroy their corporeity, then I take them back into mine, and say: "I alone am corporeal." And now I take the world as what it is to me, as mine, as my property; I refer all to myself." The Ego and Its Own, pg. 15
Charles Manson Wrote:“Look down at me and you see a fool;
look up at me and you see a god;
look straight at me and you see yourself”
HeartofShadows Wrote:"Life is nothing more than a druggie trying to get their quick fix of happiness while dealing with the harsh withdrawal of reality"
Osip Mandelstam Wrote:"I divide all of world literature into authorized and unauthorized works. The former are all trash; the latter--stolen air. I want to spit in the face of every writer who first obtains permission and then writes." The Fourth Prose, 1930.
Lukas Foss Wrote:That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.
PIRATE Pirate2 MEMBER
 Pirate Join the crew!Pirate
12-28-2010 08:21 AM
Find all posts by this user Quote this message in a reply
monkey Away
Fanatic

Posts: 1,830
Joined: Jan 2008
Thanks: 0
Given 26 thank(s) in 17 post(s)
Post: #10
Re: Birthday today.

complimentary birthday bump.

Had to move on. Account is dead.
12-30-2010 05:34 PM
Find all posts by this user Quote this message in a reply
Jesusaurisrex Offline
Fanatic

Posts: 1,493
Joined: May 2009
Thanks: 0
Given 19 thank(s) in 15 post(s)
Post: #11
Re: Birthday today.

Penguin spelled backwards is niugnep. I'm glad they didn't decide to spell it that way.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmXMA34CeoQ
12-30-2010 05:36 PM
Find all posts by this user Quote this message in a reply
HeartofShadows Offline
Fanatic

Posts: 8,557
Joined: Dec 2006
Thanks: 0
Given 80 thank(s) in 73 post(s)
Post: #12
Re: Birthday today.

Thanks monkey. Smile

Also cool story Jesus.

[Image: WARZONES_subs_hostility.png]
image hosting jpg
12-30-2010 05:58 PM
Find all posts by this user Quote this message in a reply
Vatman Offline
Foreplay in Ink

Posts: 2,701
Joined: Feb 2007
Thanks: 2
Given 98 thank(s) in 67 post(s)
Post: #13
Re: Birthday today.

Congrats the combined age of the individual digits of your age once again equals 4...just like it did when you were 4 and 13. Also Happy Birthday.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.
12-30-2010 06:15 PM
Find all posts by this user Quote this message in a reply
HeartofShadows Offline
Fanatic

Posts: 8,557
Joined: Dec 2006
Thanks: 0
Given 80 thank(s) in 73 post(s)
Post: #14
Re: Birthday today.

Vatman Wrote:Congrats the combined age of the individual digits of your age once again equals 4...just like it did when you were 4 and 13. Also Happy Birthday.

I can always count on creativity from you Vatman. Smile

[Image: WARZONES_subs_hostility.png]
image hosting jpg
12-30-2010 06:48 PM
Find all posts by this user Quote this message in a reply
The Desert Fox Offline
Waging war with conviction

Posts: 12,063
Joined: Jul 2008
Thanks: 3
Given 102 thank(s) in 75 post(s)
Post: #15
Re: Birthday today.

I'm giving you a late birthday present of diet sausage cooked in vodka and 60 5.45x39mm AP rounds. They're all looted from the military outpost in the Cordon. Biggrin

Hidden stuff:
(11-27-2011 01:00 PM)psychopath Wrote:  
(11-27-2011 10:52 AM)Efs Wrote:  Our Army is more professional than Amerika. Smile
Except ours isn't allowed to have guns
CrayolaColours Wrote:That post owned. TDF wins post of the year.
Faby Wrote:
krissy Wrote:dessert fox
Mmm, flambéed vulpine.
"There is no enemy, there is no victory, only boys who lost their lives in the sand."
[/center]
12-30-2010 07:46 PM
Find all posts by this user Quote this message in a reply
Pieman Offline
Pie Deity

Posts: 3,501
Joined: Oct 2007
Thanks: 3
Given 28 thank(s) in 23 post(s)
Post: #16
Re: Birthday today.

I totally didn't miss your birthday, because I am ze Pieman and I say so.

So happy one year closer to death day, HoS. Biggrin

" I never knew until that moment how bad it could hurt to lose something you never really had. " ~From the television show The Wonder Years
12-31-2010 01:53 AM
Find all posts by this user Quote this message in a reply
Post Reply 


Possibly Related Threads...
Thread: Author Replies: Views: Last Post
  My birthday is today Cianna200 6 2,393 01-17-2016 09:56 PM
Last Post: Cianna200
  today's my birthday and nobody gives a damn rockstarjim22 9 3,569 06-24-2014 04:13 AM
Last Post: James Comey
  It's my birthday today! тωιѕтє∂ 6 2,255 07-26-2013 06:45 AM
Last Post: тωιѕтє∂
  Today is my birthday. Prince Rilian 19 8,703 01-13-2012 12:45 PM
Last Post: Efs
  My birthday today The Desert Fox 23 3,772 11-27-2010 03:57 PM
Last Post: CrayolaColours

Forum Jump:


User(s) browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)

Contact Us | School Survival | Return to Top | Return to Content | Mobile Version | RSS Syndication