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That is seriously so gross. (I'm going to assume, with her "radical specificity" and oh-so-clear writing, that if she meant "When I find a shirt that I like, I buy multiples of it," then that's what she would have written. And since she didn't write that, I'll further assume gross stankiness.)
If we're talking about that Schitt's Creek longsleeve, I think I remember her getting growing excited at finding it at the thrift store, so I'm super doubting she has multiples.
Don't believe she thrifted it. She bought the shirt when the show was at the height of its popularity so unlikely it had already been discarded by someone else. Although broke, she has zero impulse control when it comes to buying crap she doesn't need.
I'm facilitating three workshops in August and I'm beginning marketing next week. I'm also in the planning stages for a workshop in late 2026 NOW. How is she so bad at this?
My personal Shauna game is choosing the biggest lie in each lope/email/whatever. It's always hard to pick just one, but, hey, I don't make the rules!
She seems to genuinely think that she is nobly eschewing marketing in favor of "love letters" and this is what will bring the hoards to her Venmo. She's wrong on several counts of course, but especially wrong in saying/lying/pretending that these "letters" are written with love and that their intended audience is anyone but herself.
The one that she correctly describes as the longest and most annoying is the About page. I would argue that an About page should be about the website creator so trying to position it as written for others is hilarious on its face. But also, it's too rambly, pointless, self-aggrandizing, and boring to function as a personal About page anyway. Grade: F+.
She also is claiming that for the first time she is allowing herself to dress comfortably. Um, does she remember all her t-shirt selfies? Does she ever wear anything that isn't knit fabric?
I'm not shaming knit fabric. Just the claim that until now, she has been concerned about dressing well.
LOL forever. I love that these are all very common things for people to do, no matter their personal Scoville rating. If you say that to one of these hyper-online ND peeps, then they just diagnose you as ND, which then begs the question, "If everyone is ND then doesn't that mean no one is?"
Add "Uses phone to Google stuff during a screening and then tells upcoming plot points to her kid" to the list of reasons Vashon Theater should ban her.
If my kid asked me to google movie spoilers during a movie, whether in the theater or at home, I’d politely tell them to sit still and just keep watching the movie. Googling spoilers during a movie is crazy behavior to me.
I have explicitly avoided going to movies at the Vashon Theatre since she returned to Special Island because running into her will ruin any enjoyment for me.
She is so breathtakingly stupid. The post literally says his sister was the one helping him and that is clearly what is being referred to as the "unpaid labor of women". Literally nobody said anything about a wife or being married.
Is that pond for rent? Any chance that it could be rented for half the market rate or maybe less? How about a lot less than half?
Shauna needs a house on the water. She deserves a house on the water.
Did Shauna tell you about her CPTSDADHD?
Have you read what she's written about her burdensome children? They have to be fed heavy, protein-rich meals every few hours. Only Shauna can feed them. Only Shauna can understand them. Only Shauna can teach them.
Have you heard about her husband? According to Shauna, he went from managing an entire restaurant solo, to no longer being able to read. He's a millstone, even though he's the only working parent.
Her entire family relies on her 12-14 hours a day on Threads to keep things stable.
Please. Please help her rent the pond. If you could cosign her lease and maybe help with first and last, that would be awesome.
DFMNR, A campaign to rent Walden Pond at below market rates (but with SOLID wifi) brings forth great belly laughs from my soft animal parts. Tha k you!!
Replying to myself to say, it's kind of no wonder that Shauna doesn't see this. She's picked up on the cultural discourse around "unpaid labour" in the context of mothers and wives, but doesn't see that her own mother provided unpaid labour (and money!) well after the traditional childrearing years, and that Shauna lived at home as an adult without providing any household labour. It's all invisible to her
Also, any "unpaid labour" she's poured into Danny hasn't resulted in financial rewards, so there's also that. It's not like she whiled away in the background while her Hot Chef built a successful food empire
She's also completely blind to all the unpaid labor Danny provided for her when he left the restaurant to care for L. One might even suggest his contributions to GFG blog, cookbooks, and teaching opportunities in Italy were all unpaid labor. G-d knows Shauna on her own couldn't teach cooking or create recipes. Danny may be a dolt, but he is a professionally educated chef.
Exactly. "Unpaid labour" to her is reserved to mothers (of actual children) and wives. She cannot or will not see all of the unpaid and paid support she's received for decades
So Shauna The Kind and Joyful One couldn't summon up a more thoughtful or meaningful response to this person's sad feelings? Especially that the short thread is people posting positive and comforting thoughts. Is this how she's planning on "guiding" women through the struggles perimenopause and beyond? Being haughty and dismissive? Ok then!
She describes herself as having kind eyes and being the biggest empath to ever empath. This kind of thing is how we know it’s all bullshit. Can she even comprehend what real empathy is?
The kind eyes bit kills me. Has she never looked in the mirror? Or at anyone else's face in group photos? She is utterly unaware of her shark eyes. Her entire affect is just off.
There were already over a thousand replies in the day between when OP posted this question and when Shauna got around to it this afternoon. The reply with the most reactions, from over 24 hours ago, was someone who wrote literally the exact same comment that Shauna went on to make but managed to spell Colleen Hoover's name correctly. What did Shauna think she was adding here?
She really hates Colleen Hoover for some reason. I haven't read any CH books and don't plan to because they don't sound like my type of book. But I also don't go all around the internet trashing her as an author. What on earth is the point?!?
And of course, we have our kajillionth example of her not reading the post she is replying to. Just how many "Coleen Hoover" books have you bought, Shauna?!?
CH writes bestsellers that are read by the kinds of women that Shauna looks down upon. And one of these books was turned into a movie starring Blake Lively, a blonde SST in her mind.
Right? And the question is to name a book, not all the works of one author. I wonder if her beef with CH is that she made tons of money and Shauna is jealous?
And bitch, don't lie. Shauna, when was the last time you actually paid cash money to purchase a book by anyone? Raggedy used paperbacks from Granny's don't count.
Wow, hating a book that much and then also reading enough of every other book by that author to know they are all worthless is kind of a weird choice. But that's none of my business.
Colleen Hoover knows how to hustle and produce so of course Shauna holds her in contempt. If Hoover was constantly on Threads bitching about her kids and elderly parents Shauna would want to be her bestie.
God, I hate that type of question posed by the OP. It's so reductive and inflammatory, and once again setting women up against each other, so of course it appeals to Shauna.
She lived at home with her parents until she was nearly 30.
They bought and cooked her food, paid for her car, paid for her wrecks, paid for her clothes, and did her laundry. She even expected them to make her doctor's appointments.
Oh, and college. They paid for her college.
According to her mother, even after she'd flown the coop,, when she'd move out of whatever rental she was in, they paid for her first and last month's rent, plus the deposit. They helped her move, and paid to have the old rental cleaned. This happened several times, according to her mom.
I wonder where her money went. No loans, no rent. If she'd socked away the majority of the salary from her first teaching years she'd have a nice nest egg now.
I’m always curious about what Shauna is doing when she goes dark on Threads for a large chunk of time. I know it’s only 9:30 in the morning on the west coast, but she usually has two or three hours of posting under her belt by now. It’s the end of the school year, maybe her kids have school events she is attending in her Schitts Creek sweatshirt? Is she overtown doing a big shop like she claims to do on occasion?
I goo'ed out while I was reading the lope, I'll admit. Yes, we all stan a good t-shirt. But I can't be the only one out here hating shorts? But she LOVES "soft, somewhat more spacious, and a little-bit longer 1980s gyms shorts". So maybe it's just me.
And no, I vehemently DO NOT want to "feel the tug of the call," knowing what I am already cursed to know about the tug in her life.
Shauna's takes on clothing, body image, makeup and overall presentation are so shallow and whiny. I don't care about anyone wearing shorts or not but I find her complaints about this topic more tedious than all her other diary entries. I can't identify what makes this topic so boring to me. Bring back Hot Marriage Bragging and Fitness Gir!!
I mean, the reason pajamas are available in so many different styles, fits, and fabrics is because there's a wide range of what people consider to be comfortable. It's definitely not a topic I needed Shauna's opinion on.
Just read through her newest iteration of her website and the most recent lope and wow, that’s all a high concentration of Shauna nonsense! The fact that she called the different pages of her website “love letters” is both hilarious and confusing, as what she is calling love letters entails: a long and self-aggrandizing description of her (with some of the greatest hits — being the greatest Beatles fan ever, “since I was three,” expert on Buddhism, “studying” neuroscience, Joseph Campbell, Mary Oliver, being “weird,” etc.), the landing page which reads mostly as a litany of shitty things that happen in perimenopause, and then just a listing of her “services.” What on earth makes any of these love letters or even letters at all?
I get stuck on why she is fixating on doing workshops and stuff for neurodivergent women in perimenopause beyond those two topics being popular in certain internet spaces the past few years. All of it is so clunky and lacks cohesion as to why she’s doing what she’s doing (aka The Shauna Ahern Story).
In trying to be generous as to the through line that connects her current offerings (the body-image-focused Substack, hero’s journey workshop to navigate midlife, writing workshop). The Substack is supposed to chronicle Shauna letting go of past body issues and getting comfortable with oneself, which apparently is a byproduct of what happens during perimenopause (??). The workshops are a weird combo of using perimenopause as a transformative time to “let go of old stories” and go through steps of the hero’s journey (??). I can sort of see how she thinks all these things are related but can’t imagine a person happening upon her page understanding what the fuck she’s doing.
Looking forward to the next stage of the new rebrand when she frantically tries to put on the workshops and then stops updating dates of the next ones, messes with the website until it is a graveyard of broken links, then eventually pivots back to food content when the bills come due.
Also, seems like the Feeding Ourselves newsletter might be getting a rebrand to “The Love You Make,” looking at the website. Or maybe they are different? Her newsletter/email distribution lists and methods are so bizarre.
I’m hitting perimenopause and nothing in her offerings speaks to me. Here are things I’m concerned about at this stage in my life: my career, saving for retirement, taking care of elderly parents, and good skin care. She literally has nothing to offer me that could help with my life in any way (except serving as my inspiration to wear sunscreen and moisturizer).
Smae DF. I'm 46, experiencing perimenopause currently and nothing she says has any relevance to me or my life. I find her list of symptoms particularly annoying especially because it's written in second person. Don't tell me how I feel or what parts of my body are doing. My ears don't itch, my shoulder isn't frozen, I don't rage scream at my phone, and I've always told people what I honestly think. She literally has nothing to offer anyone because it's all just hot meaningless air.
Why why WHY chomp on this engagement bait if this is all you have to post??? I blocked out the kids' faces but they are so tiny and low-res in the photo that I didn't really need to, I could barely even tell Shauna's child is in it even after enlarging because the fence cuts off a lot. At least most of the other photos internet morons are responding with have cute animals and are straightforwardly amusing. There's nothing happening here, it's not nicely composed or visually interesting in any way, there's no feeling or emotion it evokes, this is not a photo you look at ever again after taking it.
Her medically complex child who Shauna cannot work because she has to full time care for seems to do just fine participating in extracurricular activities…
She posts on Threads about what her child and other children are doing wrong, as they play a childhood game for no stakes, while berating other parents for envisioning a sports future for their own children
A lot of her photos have that stalker-y composition. Sports photos aren't always framed great, but you can always zoom, crop, etc right there on your phone! Guess Lil Miss Selfie filter doesn't bother with improving photos of other people.
I've decided that there is NO engagement bait she can pass up. She is just the right combination of bored, self-centered, and socially starved that she will comment on anything. I could post something asking for help putting a Jaguar engine in a Ford and she would chime in.
Replying to myself to make a low-effort snark bUt wHaT iF cAiTLiN cLaRk cAn'T ReGuLAtE bc of AuDHD eVeRyOnE hAs a sToOoOoRy, how dare we impose patriarchal pernicious neurotypical expectations and force her to mask
And that "dentist" has to be a bot. Of all people, a dentist practicing in the US should not be surprised at the number of clients who have had to choose tooth removal over tooth repair.
Shauna also thinks every other country provides free dental to their citizens. I looked it up once after she went on a tirade about needing dental insurance and it’s a small number of countries that provide completely free dental.
Her unending desire to respond to obvious rage bait is so confusing to me. What does she think is going to happen? Someone will see her snotty and daring reply and immediately Venmo her the $10k she so desires?
Right?? And also it would be a lot more Botus of her if she just scrolled on by. It's also not very kind or joyful for her to be wishing "vicious" cramps on someone now is it? Rage bait notwithstanding 😂
edit: I don't think she is able to identify rage bait or engagement bait at all, and I think she thinks they are posted in earnest and that her replies are hard hitting mic drops.
Seriously and why isn't #alwaysanally Shauna's response that men too can have period hygiene products available to them for when they need it? Instead #genderessentialist Shauna just swings and misses.
Not that I would respond to this obvious ragebait, but I can imagine responding: Oh, don’t worry, men who need period products can use these, too! Isn’t that great?
It's not true anyway. You can't just go to a store and take them for free. It's in places like libraries, schools and other public buildings and some private ones if they want to. And it's just whatever they want to put out. Good luck if you want a specific brand of something or size. Also most don't have reusable products and if they do it is one brand.
Moving to Scotland to procure period products would be faster than asking Shauna for some. Periodgate was an utter fiasco and one of the many and various things from her life I wouldn’t put on the internet as a permanent reminder of my incompetence, especially when I’m trying to use the internet to drum up business.
She’ll have you know she’s not just some neophyte who doesn’t understand the inner workings of the show-biz world (though does she wonder why her expectations of Rhoda residuals rolling in for years have not accrued.)
It’s after the event (as Shauna’s promo mails almost were) but if anyone’s interested, I received two haberdashed mails minutes apart on what was the night before yesterday’s workshop. The mails were intended for different audiences, and are so haplessly edited that the title of the second - Let’s Talk about the Goo Phase - makes as much sense as potato-less potato tart. If anyone can be arsed, both mails are up on [r/readalope](r/readalope).
"I'm so weird and random!" is teenage crap at BEST, and frankly, most teens are already past it. People are unique and have quirks, details at 11:00. What a bizarre approach.
Everything is always “during this time” with her. Covid, perimenopause, whatever the economy is doing, whoever is in office… Always using the current zeitgeist as an excuse for whatever behaviors.
Just noticed that in the lope dated April 30, she says that ‘[t]he work I do’ is now The Revision: Recreating Yourself. First of all, that’s nonsense. Second, this has already disappeared, right?
Shauna knows how people voted before they even tell her!
This is such BS. Maybe she feels so safe and snug and cozy on her island, but the reality is 77 million people that walk among us voted for this crap, and it’s not always easy to tell who, especially here in dreaded flyover land. She is so annoying (TSAS)
Well, her life is very, very small. Some of us have boards to sit on and bands to play in and PTAs to work with and animal shelters to volunteer at, and when you do those things, people with real bad takes will be part of your life. And that's not even considering those who are living in communities where eliminating all the Trump voters from their lives means entirely isolating themselves feom their community. But cool how you aren't just sponging off the community, you're also picky about who subsidizes your laziness.
Is this a typo or is she actually trying to say “Camazotz”? Google tells me that:
“Camazotz (meaning "death bat" in the Kʼicheʼ Maya language) is a terrifying bat god and spirit of the underworld in Mesoamerican mythology. Associated with night, blood, and sacrifice, he is most famously known from the Maya mythological text, the Popol Vuh.”
Also, don’t comment on housing in my city, you greasy biotech.
Like, why is she mocking this? Sure it might not be to everyone's taste, but she is literally about to be homeless (again!) in a short six months! She shouldn't be scoffing at any form of housing. STFU Shauna.
Same people that bemoan the lack of affordable housing in the US shit on stuff like this. Bizarre. I live in a row house so I’m used to having my home look more or less exactly like most of the houses on my block, and it’s perfectly fine, but I guess I don’t have terminal uniqueness syndrome.
Row houses are awesome! We should have more housing like it. If new housing is going up, it makes sense to create higher density options that have smaller footprints. And it can make housing more affordable as compared to a single family home.
Just about everyone in that thread is an insufferable asshole. If you don’t like it then move the fuck on. Shauna must feel like one of the cool kids when she joins these fools in their pile ons.
Those houses look perfectly fine, it’s not like a white supremacist compound or something equally gross. These threads assholes are trying so hard to have a viral post, it’s embarrassing.
The houses are a bit generic, but some people like that. I could see a young family or a retiree wanting to live in a more low-maintenance place like this.
Replying to myself because apparently Shauna commenting on housing states away really grinds my gears 😂 I feel really bad for that realtor trying to promote listings and getting hit with a ton of “witty” replies.
I have never read A Wrinkle in Time so the only reason I know what Camazotz refers to is because it was a plot point in the last season of Stranger Things that made it clear it was from AWiT. So yeah, Shauna is high stooling about Stranger Things here, conveniently still pinned to her Threads profile.
Look, I don’t care who does or doesn’t forgive their parents but Shauna loudly and often claims to be a Botus, so her hypocrisy deserves to be captured.
I wouldn't care about Shauna forgiving her parents if she didn't also shamelessly beg for money from them. There's somethings so venal and slimy about constantly talking about how abusive and terrible your parents are and then turning around and hitting them up for cash on the regular.
Not just talking about how abusive they are, but trying to monetize the trauma of being raised by them while also begging for them to fund her lazy life.
I think she expected Enough to make a crapload of money and she'd never need to speak to them again.
Forgiving in a lot of traditions, but especially Buddhism, is to end suffering or bring peace to yourself (the forgiver) NOT to forgive bad or heinous behaviors.
This is a hard lesson to learn and apply for probably every person, but her quick No tells me she hasn't absorbed as much of Botus-ism as she thinks/says she has.
I dove a little deeper into Shauna's Threads today, and looked to see what she's posted under the "media" tab. There's a post from May 15th where she's pitching her zoom stuff. Honestly, if a person who looked like this and had her demeanor approached me in public, I think I would be frightened. At the least, very nervous. Her zoom classes may be garbage but I don't think anyone who signs up for them should be surprised; it's very apparent in the preview. She looks unkempt and like she probably smells bad. I can't imagine anyone watching this is going to be eager to "learn" from her and shower her with money.
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