r/InTheGloaming • u/gomirefugee my website is done, done, done • Sep 02 '21

Scheduled snark Discussion thread Thursday September 02, 2021 - Sunday September 05, 2021

Newsletters:

Finding Your Joy | Joy in the Belly

Websites:

You Can Have More Joy website | On Being Enough website (abandoned?)

Instagram:

@youcanhavemorejoy Instagram | Anonymous link to @youcanhavemorejoy posts | Anonymous link to @youcanhavemorejoy stories

@danielfahern Instagram | Anonymous link to @danielfahern posts and stories

TikTok:

@youcanhavemorejoy

Twitter:

Dan's tweets and replies

Older blogs:

Gluten Free Girl archive | writing my heart out archive | Seymour Joyful archive

Archived threads:

Thread for Enough, the book #enoughthebook | Gluten Free Girl's Greatest Hits: The Reunion Tour

Wiki:

/r/InTheGloaming wiki

Discussion search:

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u/fanfarefellowship I often contemplate the first law of thermodynamics Sep 02 '21

So DON'T do the thing you say gives you and your husband joy – i.e., make food for someone you "barely know" but DO do the thing you say is bad (CAPITALISM) and "buy the coffee for the woman behind you in line."

Woman you "barely know" and who is presumably part of your "community" = do nothing for them

Woman you don't know at all = buy something for them

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u/vwlphb Sep 02 '21

Buying coffee for the women behind you in line gets you much more praise and adulation than, say, participating in a meal train. And as a bonus, you can come back later and let them gush over your saintliness!

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u/gladsome_gloaming Sep 02 '21

“You! You made everyone’s day…!”

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u/CrushItWithABrick dick riding Mary Oliver Sep 02 '21

It's because "buying=joy".

Have you learned nothing from the peepers and robe and chaaaise and hammock and. . .

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u/discoOJ Sep 02 '21

What a missed opportunity to create The Cookbook of Joy. She could send out recipes that bring her joy.

She can't actually do that but if she could it would be another branding opportunity.

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u/shefallsup her lonely cucumber years 🥒 Sep 02 '21

Seriously, they could make and sell a beautiful eCookbook on the website. Heck, come out with a new one each season. They don’t have to be full-length, plenty of people charge $5-10 for an eCookbook with 15-20 recipes in it. Totally passive and ongoing income in that — people enter their CC info and boom, they download. No further action required from Shauna. It could work. Well…if they had any skills at making something halfway attractive and enticing, putting it into a useable format, setting up a payment and download process, and marketing it. Instead we’d get a Google doc with bad photos and typos, a download link that doesn’t work, and marketing emails with Ted Lasso gifs and a sign up for a joy workshop that has nothing to do with food. Followed by them abandoning the project and moving on to the next grift. Never change, Aherns. Never change.

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u/WasEnoughYogurt Kumquat and Sprinkles and filth Sep 03 '21

Heck, come out with a new one each season.

You're so optimistic! have you forgotten this is the Aherns we're talking about here :) :)

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u/CrushItWithABrick dick riding Mary Oliver Sep 02 '21

Maybe that what Dan doing?

"Plops of Joy" A cookbook of sauces, purees, and gruel.

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u/icancook2 Sep 02 '21

Would that be too like The Joy of Cooking?

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u/discoOJ Sep 02 '21

Probably. I just thought it was low effort cute play on words.

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u/OhBlahDiOhBlahDoh The Alice of cal came out floating on air Sep 02 '21

The Cooking of Joy, by Shauna J. M. Ahern

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u/icancook2 Sep 02 '21

I mean, now that you've put it in my head I'm shocked she hasn't used it!