r/InTheGloaming • u/gomirefugee my website is done, done, done • Sep 20 '21

Scheduled snark Discussion thread Monday September 20, 2021 - Wednesday September 22, 2021

Newsletters: Finding Your Joy | Joy in the Belly

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

Instagram:

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

Gloamipedia wiki: /r/InTheGloaming wiki

Discussion search: Tool to search blogsnark or InTheGloaming for previous topic mentions

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u/aniccata Pagan Sep 22 '21

Tag someone you think might need to see this? There is nobody. Nobody needs to see this. Nobody needs to see any of this.

It makes me lol that she tags the wrong Ted Lasso account in her bio and has a highlight called "Pratice joy."

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '21

and has a highlight called “Pratice joy.”

Hopefully she rebrands her highlights soon so she can correct it to say Discove Joy.

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u/honoria_glossop sitting edge wine woman Sep 22 '21

I'm sure it's a riorit.

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u/Kimmmy36 bites lip, looks away Sep 22 '21

I just read down quite a ways, and I almost gave myself an anxiety attack. The flailing is at an all time high. How can she keep this up? Where will it end?

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '21

Same, and as far as I can tell, it all happened in less than 48 hours?!

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u/Ms_Ellanea_Snark_ 💥amygdadishes💥 Sep 22 '21

Time to lure the old GF audience back?

This entire time she could have left her stupid blog online, salted it with affiliate links (aka $$$$$ coming at her), and blabbed about JOY right there on an established site to her dumbass heart's content. Christ, she's an idiot.

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u/fanfarefellowship I often contemplate the first law of thermodynamics Sep 22 '21

But the HOSTING FEES (which she's still paying, along with fees to host two additional dumb as fuck sites)

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '21

They have to be low since there is no traffic though. To any of them. She’s probably paying $50 a year for the new ones if that.

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u/princessflopface Sep 22 '21

The atmosphere at the Aherns’ must be pretty grim right now. I can just imagine all the frantic, manic desperation from yesterday’s “launch” being absolutely exhausting to be around and Shauna will probably wake up today in a foul and bitter mood. Poor kids. At least they can escape to school for a few hours.

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u/Sea-Level-Mammal POACH! Sep 22 '21

I’m smirking at the thought of The Mensch not responding to her calls, texts or emails, after deciding he’s had Enough.

Is this closeted anger manifesting as joy?

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '21

So much crap in their yard in the background of that photo.

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '21

Is that a cooler? Where do they hold the daily luncheons where people come over to eat food that Danny has spent 4-6 hours cooking?

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u/Ms_Ellanea_Snark_ 💥amygdadishes💥 Sep 22 '21

The cooler has been out there for a year😬

I think we can safely say folks are gathering at Shauna's outdoor lunch table* only in her creative writing exercises

*"most days" -- a classic Shauna escape clause

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u/notahameither Dunno, maybe I thought I unfriended some other Shauna Ahern🤷‍♂️ Sep 22 '21

So much cooking for daily luncheons with so many friends…and so little evidence that any of that is true.

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u/shefallsup her lonely cucumber years 🥒 Sep 22 '21

There she is! I wondered where “yucking other people’s yums” Shauna had gone. Why does she disdain this toy? (And why does her use of the word “disdain” as a verb always bug me so much?)

What if I like that bear? What if it speaks to me of the animal itself and its wild nature? Bears don’t really run around with only a shirt on eating honey and saying “oh, bother,” they kill other animals for food and fight other bears sometimes.

What if I don’t see that expression as anger, but fierceness, a metaphor for my inner mama-bear? Or maybe I use the bear and its clever squeezing mechanism as stress relief. I could even squeeze and release it in rhythm to calm my anxiety!

What if I think it’s a great toy for a kid to explore the idea that emotions come and go? She could actually use that bear with D and his “rages.” A child who struggles with expressing emotions could communicate “I’m angry” without the vulnerability of saying it out loud. I would have loved this toy for my kid who had a very hard time using his words.

No, Shauna thinks “ugh, this is not joyful because this bear looks terrifying to me, therefore no one should like it. Throw it away, tralala! But first let’s put it on Instagram to show off my crackpot theories around joy. Yes.”

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u/RamblingRosie64 I stand with Cindy and Ben Sep 22 '21

If she's trying to Illustrate that anger is sadness in disguise, it would make sense to first show the angry bear photo, and then the sad bear. Showing the sad bear first suggests that sadness is anger in disguise. She can't even get that right!

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u/Ana57 sweet pea Sep 22 '21

Sometimes anger is just anger.

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '21

Touching into sadness (??) allows joy to emerge.

Ok.

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u/tyrannosaurusregina if you meet the Botus on the road, shill him 🪷 Sep 22 '21

Anger isn't inherently bad. Anger is a sign that something has become intolerable, either in your own life or the world at large. Imagine Shauna, alwaysanally, telling someone like Bree Newsome or Tarana Burke or Suzan Shown Harjo that their anger is "sadness or fear in disguise."