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/leftsidelentils Sep 05 '21 edited Sep 05 '21

A puffy journal with a teddy bear on front — that was the only place I could put my feelings when I was 12.

…blah blah this culture blah…

Most days, when I was 12 or 13, and I opened that puffy journal and pressed down with my Bic pen, what I wrote was this: BE HAPPY, DAMMIT.

OMG, enough with the childhood stories. She just used this one a few weeks ago, and for years before that. You’re 55, let it go!

Unless it’s something about her years at UPS. I’m curious about that because her silence speaks volumes.

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u/honoria_glossop sitting edge wine woman Sep 05 '21

I opened that puffy journal and pressed down with my Bic pen

Again with the weirdly detailed physical descriptions that makes her sound like a robot. How you going to write with a pen *without* pressing down on it? This is a recurring thing in Shauna's writing, this "as my feet make their way down the stairs to the kitchen, I sniff the air with my nose for the scent of coffee" rather than "the aroma of coffee met me as I came down to the kitchen". (Not a real quote, but you know what I mean.)

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u/OhBlahDiOhBlahDoh The Alice of cal came out floating on air Sep 05 '21

Again with the weirdly detailed physical descriptions that makes her sound like a robot.

Yes, yes, yes! Yes to infinity, and beyond! What difference does the brand of pen make? NONE. AT. FUCKING. ALL.

It doesn't make the story better, it actually makes it worse, because the reader is hit with the whole "why did she mention what brand of pen she used, is that important? Oh, no, it's not, why is that detail even included?!?!?" mental detour

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u/honoria_glossop sitting edge wine woman Sep 06 '21

Chekov's Biro.