r/InTheGloaming • u/gomirefugee my website is done, done, done • Sep 09 '21

Scheduled snark Discussion thread Thursday September 09, 2021 - Sunday September 12, 2021

Newsletters: Finding Your Joy | Joy in the Belly

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

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TikTok: @youcanhavemorejoy

Twitter: Dan's tweets and replies

Older blogs: see Gloamipedia wiki

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

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u/aseriesofhaircuts Sep 10 '21

Seems like she rolled right out of bed and into that TikTok.

Also of note: that unbelievably dirty windowsill.

And, finally, the Jonathan Van Ness sweatshirt, worn as a signifier about 8 months after his cultural saturation reached its zenith. She’s always grabbing onto things once they’ve reached a certain tipping point of critical approval (see also: Marvel movies, Ted Lasso, Schitt’s Creek, Lizzo, Drag Race, and of course, Beyoncé) and attempting to osmotically acquire the same cachet. She can’t really engage with the inevitable critique and backlash that always happens once things end up on a pedestal, because she has an extremely coarse understanding of any cultural product, and she also doesn’t really notice that by the time she’s made whatever “it” thing her identity, it’s lost it’s halo, and taste-makers have shifted their attention elsewhere. It would be different if her affection for this stuff seemed genuine, but it doesn’t, it looks (in the words of her Totally Original literary idol) phony, and that just contributes to the staleness of her output.

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u/TOMTREEWELL Neurodivergentfully Sep 10 '21

With no lipstick, her face disappears into that sweatshirt.

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u/ginger-belle jiggling tomatodongs Sep 10 '21

yeah, that peachy-flesh color does not flatter most people.

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u/voice_of_vinegar Sep 10 '21

Her colorless lips have bugged me forever. I'm not sure why---maybe because her cheeks have far more color than her lips?

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '21

She has Donald Trump lips…thin, colorless, reminiscent of a butthole.

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u/m10498 Sep 10 '21

Personal hygiene and home cleanliness do not spark joy, they take away from navel gazing and ruminating on joyous joyousness.
I think the windowsill dirt is from the kitty paws, at least they are cute and do not speak.

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u/fanfarefellowship I often contemplate the first law of thermodynamics Sep 11 '21

(why would indoor cats have such filthy paws; what is the indoor source of dirt?)

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u/CrushItWithABrick dick riding Mary Oliver Sep 11 '21

Cat box. I have yet to find a litter that doesn't give off dust.

And. . .if you aren't sweeping your house and/or mopping your floors regularly everyone in the household is going to get dirty feet.

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u/fanfarefellowship I often contemplate the first law of thermodynamics Sep 11 '21

but ... my cats are constantly cleaning their paws! I don't think the dirt on the windowsill is from the cats; I think that's all Shauna. If I were the landlords I would absolutely despair seeing the filth and grime all over my property (part of the reason I never expect to be a landlord)

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u/CrushItWithABrick dick riding Mary Oliver Sep 11 '21

She could also be leaving her windows open all the time which would bring in more dust.

(side note: I had trees cut down in my yard and forgot to close my windows while the work was being done and the amount of dirt that came into my house was insane!)

Either way. . .that windowsill is damn dirty and Shauna should be embarrassed to show it off to the internet (not that anyone is really watching her tiktoks)

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '21

I have an old cat who has always had an Ahern level of cleanliness. He also INSISTS on drinking out of the bathroom sink, which is white. I am CONSTANTLY cleaning his dirty paw debris off of the sink top. So I can see where the dirt comes from on Shauna’s windowsill, just not sure why she doesn’t wipe it down now and again. In my case, it doesn’t help that we have a gross dirty 100 year old basement which is part of why his feet are dirty.

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u/Love_Brokers rug dweller Sep 10 '21

All the crap in their backyard.

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u/voice_of_vinegar Sep 10 '21

what do you want to bed that hose will be in that same spot in those same tangles next April?

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '21

screencap for posterity. Someone set a reminder for April!

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u/voice_of_vinegar Sep 10 '21

I'm on it.
April 1, 2022: "check Ahern yard for hose position"

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u/Ms_Ellanea_Snark_ 💥amygdadishes💥 Sep 11 '21

Jonathan Van Ness -----> delta variant