Miss Raquel is writing "another" novel.

[Anonymousguest]

5 hours ago, Paperplate said:

I feel like we don't hear much about any of the siblings. She only mentions them in passing every now and then. Her on-and-off non-boyfriend and "best friends" are featured much more heavily. Maybe the parents discouraged Raquel from posting too much about her siblings on the internet? Is the 16 y/o sister on social media?  

Not as far as I can tell.Not Facebook or instagram.

Raquel is close with her older brother, but she's almost 5 yrs older than the next girl down, and the rest of the girls are closer in age. It's probably just a matter of family dynamics and age. 

[ari_belle]

8 hours ago, clueliss said:

Ah but Raquel prefers tea.  Wonder if her parents are going to subsidize her phone bill?  Can you imagine her cut off from the phone/interwebs?  

I bet their version of "you have to move out ASAP" will include way more amenities than it would for most people. I think they'll pay for her phone.

[ari_belle]

Miss Raquel may not believe in masturbation, but this is one of the most masturbatory things I've seen her post.

It is entitled, "When You Asked Me What Was Wrong - by me"

[clueliss]

this is the verbiage under a post on Raquel's Instagram yesterday (Sorry, I have yet to figure out how to snag instagram stuff).  

Quote

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itsjustraquelAnd when you really, really miss your best friend, you read the letters he wrote to you, and wear the bracelet that he gave you (20 days and counting), and you cry because 11 months is so far away...
And you smile when you wake up in the morning to find texts from him saying: 'Cada ves que se despierta mi mejor amiga y hermana tiene que ver un mensaje diciendole y recordandole cuanto le quiero y extraño...' --> 'Every time you wake up, my best friend and sister will see a message telling and reminding her of how much I love and miss her.'❣
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Uhhhhh, her 'best friend.' I'm assuming from Peru?  Are we talking one of the orphans?  Or someone else?  I could be a wee bit creeped out if this is an orphan.  

[Anonymousguest]

1 hour ago, clueliss said:

this is the verbiage under a post on Raquel's Instagram yesterday (Sorry, I have yet to figure out how to snag instagram stuff).  

Uhhhhh, her 'best friend.' I'm assuming from Peru?  Are we talking one of the orphans?  Or someone else?  I could be a wee bit creeped out if this is an orphan.  

The assumption on FJ so far it's that it's an orphan, but I'm not sure. Would an orphan have a cell phone of his own to text with? I guess he could have a text account on a shared computer. It seems just as likely it's some one who works there, or lives in the area. 

[salex]

My prediction for 2016 is that if Raquel really does have to fend for herself, she'll be married by the end of the year to a guy with a job.

I see it as along the lines of Lori Alexander sitting on her bed poking her diaphragm with a pin so she can get out of going back to work.  It won't necessarily be a guy who meets all the items on her list, but a guy who has a job and is in a marrying mode. Because Raquel does not seem the type to up her work game to support herself, even if it means not being able to "not date" other guys... after all they can still be her best friends and she can still flirt and break hearts of the guys she doesn't marry. 

Marriage will be Raquel's next big career move--unless she drags in some guy so horrifying that her parents start supporting her again to talk her out of marrying him.  This is my guess. 

Did we ever hear why she is not working at her dream job at the newspaper any longer?

Also, please, God, must we hear about how many hearts she's broken.  I wonder how many guys view it as a broken heart or more of a dodged bullet?

 

[xRoo]

19 hours ago, Paperplate said:

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What's going to happen when she needs that tip money for bills?

The paper cut her cuz they don't make money

edit: oops my phone spazzed. This was supposed to quote @salex

[Terrie]

That poem makes no sense. 'I break hearts AND I'm broke, because I give everything and all my money to others. Except for the $8 I spent on coffee and Subway. Ignore that."

[refugee]

On 1/20/2016 at 11:46 AM, Georgiana said:

I live in a fairly expensive area of the country, and you can still get a room in a house with roommates for a couple hundred a month including water/utilities/garbage/cable/internet.  However, I would bet real, paper money that Raquel is going to have a rude awakening when she realizes she also will need to be purchasing:

• Food
• Toiletries
• Clothes
• Gas
• Insurance

at a bare minimum.  Plus money will come out of her paycheck for taxes, etc.  It probably sounds like a lot to her now because she isn't used to covering her own expenses.  I think she will be very surprised on how much it really costs to be an adult.

Around here, I saw local rooms for rent advertised on a community college board for a minimum of 450 a month. I know someone in the nearby big city who is renting rooms (in her house, to students) for 800 a month. It's not cheap around here.

[Vex]

Holy hell, Raquel.
Writing short, declarative statements one
after the other
is not poetry.

Blank verse is not
just writing words with no
rhyme or meter.

Please just


Stop.

[AmazonGrace]

18 hours ago, ari_belle said:

Miss Raquel may not believe in masturbation, but this is one of the most masturbatory things I've seen her post.

It is entitled, "When You Asked Me What Was Wrong - by me"

She could try the haiku or tanka  form, some of her poetry would be more effective in a more concise form. 

 

No, nothing is wrong

I just can't make people happy 

 can't give them  enough 

i just break their hearts instead

because that's what i'm best at

[Jasmar]

On December 22, 2015 at 2:07 AM, AmazonGrace said:

When I nag, I don't nag, it's my valuable way of caring for our relationship, I make sure that important issues are addressed and not swept under the rug.  When you nag, you're overly critical and inconsiderate of my feelings.

I know this is old, and I'm still plowing through the thread, but damn if yes doesn't sounds exactly like my ex-husband. Who is, in fact, a narcissist.

Raquel is localish, but she's probably the fundie I'm least interested in seeing in person, if only from a distance. She's just kind of boring to me. She seems like the kind of person I want to care about, if only because of their youth, but can't because I know all too well what comes of carrying empathy for a narcissist.

[nastyhobbitses]

17 hours ago, salex said:

My prediction for 2016 is that if Raquel really does have to fend for herself, she'll be married by the end of the year to a guy with a job.

I see it as along the lines of Lori Alexander sitting on her bed poking her diaphragm with a pin so she can get out of going back to work.  It won't necessarily be a guy who meets all the items on her list, but a guy who has a job and is in a marrying mode. Because Raquel does not seem the type to up her work game to support herself, even if it means not being able to "not date" other guys... after all they can still be her best friends and she can still flirt and break hearts of the guys she doesn't marry. 

Marriage will be Raquel's next big career move--unless she drags in some guy so horrifying that her parents start supporting her again to talk her out of marrying him.  This is my guess. 

Did we ever hear why she is not working at her dream job at the newspaper any longer?

Also, please, God, must we hear about how many hearts she's broken.  I wonder how many guys view it as a broken heart or more of a dodged bullet?

 

I really, really hope Raquel wouldn't stoop so low as to sabotage her or her sexual partner's contraceptive devices so she can get pregnant.

But I can definitely see her looking for a sugar daddy of sorts.

[ari_belle]

4 hours ago, Jasmar said:

I know this is old, and I'm still plowing through the thread, but damn if yes doesn't sounds exactly like my ex-husband. Who is, in fact, a narcissist.

Raquel is localish, but she's probably the fundie I'm least interested in seeing in person, if only from a distance. She's just kind of boring to me. She seems like the kind of person I want to care about, if only because of their youth, but can't because I know all too well what comes of carrying empathy for a narcissist.

Two members of my immediate family have NPD. I empathize to the highest degree. I brought up a little while back that Raquel seems like she has NPD. With someone young it can be hard to tell at first, but the true test of whether or not someone truly has NPD is time. Raquel has proven herself incapable of change and introspection over the years. The older she gets, the less she can be excused as "young and immature."

I think it's especially telling that her rules on pre-marital kissing changed on a whim once she got a boyfriend, considering she was on such a high horse about it before. Rules never apply to those with NPD, even the rules they make for themselves (and others).

[salex]

1 hour ago, nastyhobbitses said:

I really, really hope Raquel wouldn't stoop so low as to sabotage her or her sexual partner's contraceptive devices so she can get pregnant.

But I can definitely see her looking for a sugar daddy of sorts.

I don't think she will get herself knocked up to get married, though that's a time honored tradition, i was just thinking she'd be as crafty  and dedicated to the task of getting a guy to marry her.  I have not seen her wax poetic about babies but i have to remember they could be a means to an end for her like they were for Lori.   I think we see a young version of Lori in Raquel.  Lori went to college because her dad insisted.  Raquel is being forced out of the nest in an effort to get her to step up.    Lori married ken with an idea she'd be taken care of....not because she loved him much.  Raquel will write about the greatest love between 2 people the world has ever known but likely will treat any boyfriend or husband like lori treated ken.

[formergothardite]

Raquel has an entire Pinterest page devoted to how she wants her babies to look. But she doesn't seem to view them as actual humans. They will just be props for her life. This is the person whose bucket list includes having blue eyed children, she clearly has her ideal children already planned out and god forbid any baby fuck up her plans. Raquel really does remind me of Lori and I can easily see her turn into a mother who locks her kids in their room for hours each day so she doesn't have to deal with them. 

[clueliss]

Her retweets also include a lot of kissing, dating, babies and tattoos.  Also dream apartments that are highly unrealistic.   For comparison, I am 51, a degreed! accountant and have a 2 bedroom apartment.   I took a glimpse today of apartments/lofts via an online site for a location in downtown KC - my interest is not moving into a loft in downtown KC, it was in what they  are doing with a place I used to work at that is being turned into an entire block of lofts.  They are asking at least 2x the amount of rent I pay right now.  I use this as an example because this is the type of stuff I see in her retweets.  Nice to dream but very unrealistic.  

In addition to missing her 'best friend' in Peru she was also missing another 'best friend' who is a marine and being deployed (I think).  Her use of 'best friend' lately rather indicates to me that she perhaps doesn't really know what the phrase means.  

The part of this I presently find (twistedly) interesting is that she seems to be (on the surface) intelligent.  And her homeschooling parents have given her a decent education when comparing her to Duggars, Maxwells and some of the other fundies we watch around here.  I just get the sense that she's unmotivated by anything but kissing, boys, babies and tattoos.  Oh and wielding words.  

Speaking of word wielding - In those ask.fm answers recently was something about how she'll publish her novel when she can afford to publish it.  Uhhh okay, but I know people who self publish electronically and it doesn't really cost anything if you know how to look up instructions on the internet regarding how to format things for various epub platforms.  Which either indicates to me that she is woefully lacking in basic knowledge of today's publishing industry - or that it was an answer to deflect real response on the nanowrimo novel she crashed & burned on because she couldn't stay away from social media long enough.

[Firiel]

I'll stick up for Raquel for retweeting completely unrealistic apartments.  Most rooms/homes/beds/whatever that people retweet or pin on Pinterest are completely unrealistic.  And those doing the posting generally recognize that fact.  It's more of a "Wow, I totally wish I could do this!" than a "I'm totally going to do this when I move out next month!" thing.

She's still horrible, though.

[Paperplate]

56 minutes ago, clueliss said:

<snip>Speaking of word wielding - In those ask.fm answers recently was something about how she'll publish her novel when she can afford to publish it.  Uhhh okay, but I know people who self publish electronically and it doesn't really cost anything if you know how to look up instructions on the internet regarding how to format things for various epub platforms.  Which either indicates to me that she is woefully lacking in basic knowledge of today's publishing industry - or that it was an answer to deflect real response on the nanowrimo novel she crashed & burned on because she couldn't stay away from social media long enough.</snip>

I asked her that question – and included some flattery so she'd be sure to answer – to find out whether she has actually finished the novel. She didn't say that it wasn't finished, but she also didn't say it was – so I'm going with the latter.

Raquel was afraid someone would steal her writings if she put them up on the internet before so maybe she's suspicious of the self published epub route. (She probably doesn't know about publishing in general, like you said.) 

[sea_gale]

I don't want to sign up for ask.fm myself, but it would be interesting to ask her if she's still in her band.

[Terrie]

Let's be honest. Writing and publishing a book isn't nearly as fun as talking about writing and publishing a book. Doing it is actual work.

[xRoo]

2 hours ago, sea_gale said:

I don't want to sign up for ask.fm myself, but it would be interesting to ask her if she's still in her band.

I'm pretty sure for the time being she isn't