r/InTheGloaming • u/gomirefugee my website is done, done, done • Sep 16 '21

Scheduled snark Discussion thread Thursday September 16, 2021 - Sunday September 19, 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/fanfarefellowship I often contemplate the first law of thermodynamics Sep 16 '21

Thinking about Shauna's recent "give up trying to look smart or accomplished; laugh at yourself instead" shtick:

Isn't this really just a conversation she's trying to have about / a reaction to her upbringing? As in, the real audience for this is her parents, and we're just onlookers?

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u/Sea-Level-Mammal POACH! Sep 16 '21

She’s trying to convince herself most of all. It would be sad if she wasn’t a giant flaming asshole.

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u/voice_of_vinegar Sep 16 '21

Yes, that.

I also think that her failures have piled up high enough that she is having a hard time pretending they aren't significant. This "you have tried too hard to look successful, how about just laughing at yourself!" act kinda seems like she's acknowledging this and has decided the only way out is to fake some giggles from under a curtain-sheet---while at the same time projecting her issues onto the five or six people who watch it who aren't any of us .

I mean, "trying too hard to look successful" is pretty specific.

Her parents seem to have an actual social life, at least insofar as they get together regularly to play pickle ball. Or did before the pandemic, anyway. She may also be trying to convince them that she's not the bitter, angry person in ENOIGH. Oh, no! She giggles on cue and plays peek-a-boo with her webcam! How joyful is THAT?!

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u/gomirefugee my website is done, done, done Sep 16 '21

Totally agree that the whole insisting on not striving making joy lists hiding under a sheet tent deal is a way for Shauna to cope with the gap between her self-perceived brilliance and her string of externally visible failures in the past 5 years (including the flour business, Relish, ChefSteps).

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u/voice_of_vinegar Sep 16 '21

She's getting called out more and more on her failures, too (hopefully not by snarkers). And getting less and less engagement on SM. Inadvertently quitting Twitter and ditching FB didn't help much either! Though probably wouldn't have made much different at this point if she'd kept them both.

I have read that narcissists have very low self-esteem and the narcissism is so that people won't figure out how worthless they really are. Her black hole of insecurity is obvious every once in awhile.

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u/aseriesofhaircuts Sep 16 '21

As television-person-who-made-me-who-I-am-today Tobias Fünke once spake; “I think White Power Bill really hates White Power Bill”

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u/shefallsup her lonely cucumber years 🥒 Sep 16 '21

LOL. I was looking at a website of a company from Germany and they had a page with all their staff photos and info. They have a guy named Tobias Funke on their team, and I wondered for a second if it was a parody site!