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Book Info

Genre: Nonfiction, Natural History, Ecology

LibraryThing: https://www.librarything.com/work/11720259/t/The-Forest-Unseen-A-Years-Watch-in-Nature

Acquired from: Little Free Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA [see log]

Started reading: August 17, 2025

Finished reading: September 2 (DNF)

May come back to this later (in ebook version) but it’s not holding my attention and I don’t want to carry it around waiting for it.

Reading Updates

Title Page: This copy is signed by the author!

Page xii:

Indeed, the truth of the forest may be more clearly and vividly revealed by the contemplation of a small area than it could be by donning ten-league boots, covering a continent but uncovering little.

Page 8: Somebody did a lot of underlining in pencil but stopped after the second chapter. Guessing they DNF’d this, but I’m enjoying it so far. It reminds me of Seasons of the Wild but more satisfyingly science-y.

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Crossposted from Pixietails Club Blog.

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Posted by Remy Millisky

https://cheezburger.com/42497797/15-mildly-infuriating-museum-visits-a-history-museum-is-not-your-instagram-photo-stage

Spending an afternoon at the museum can be a great way to break out of your usual monotonous routine. When was the last time you went to one? Depending on where you live, there may be tons of art museums, history museums, or kid-focused museums. It's not for everyone — some people find them boring — but you're sure to see things you've never seen before, and maybe broaden your horizons. Plus, in some places, if you're a resident, you can get into that museum for free or for like, a dollar using the pay-what-you-wish system. Especially if you've got kids and a long summer's afternoon to fill, it's the spot to go.

While you're at that spot, though, you'll still have to deal with the hoi polloi who are also wandering the same halls as you. Maybe you planned on a peaceful afternoon wandering the art museum hallways and browsing the paintings, but there are a bunch of kids who can't stop laughing their faces off at the lifelike sculptures. Or, have you ever toured a museum at the same exact time as a school field trip full of kids who are either chatty or very bored and can't wait to leave? Instead of a relaxing visit, you're now surrounded by grouchy teens who just want to be on their phones.

In some people's cases, folks were confused about the art itself! As you can see below, one person mistook an ancient bowl for a trash can… yikes! There are all kinds of ways an afternoon at the museum can totally go south, so keep scrolling to see which museum fail is your fave.

Next up, read about the unfortunate dating prospects of the 27-year-old dude who tried to chat up a 34-year-old woman using AI: "Is he using ChatGPT to talk to me?"

https://cheezburger.com/42497797/15-mildly-infuriating-museum-visits-a-history-museum-is-not-your-instagram-photo-stage

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Posted by Jesse Kessenheimer

https://cheezburger.com/42499333/a-midday-lunch-of-26-brown-bagged-funnies-to-get-you-through-the-workday-september-22-2025

If there were a job where you got paid $300k annually, worked 1 day a month, and got to dump all of your workplace responsibilities on your underlings, that would be the perfect career path. Oh, wait—that job description already exists, you just have to become a CEO!

Failing to attach a PDF to an email may be a job requirement for a CEO, but achieving the ultimate seat at a company is tougher than it looks. That pesky glass ceiling has proven to be the greatest barrier for underling workers to pierce into their dream job's hiring market. How does one become a CEO? Beats me, but it seems like every C-level employee has something in common: Loads of charisma, an arsenal of immaculately tailored suits, and a whole slew of CEO friends. Perhaps the key to your dream job isn't working harder in the workplace, slogging through paperwork, and staying to work overtime. All you need to do is befriend some other CEO's, buy nice clothes, and work on your elevator pitches.

Once you've mastered that, forget everything you know about basic computer use and the entire G-Suite, and you'll be on the fast track to greatness in your career. Until then, however, you can join the rest of us in the workforce, commuting on trains, making sandwiches for lunch, and dreaming of the vacation we planned with our meager PTO accrual.

https://cheezburger.com/42499333/a-midday-lunch-of-26-brown-bagged-funnies-to-get-you-through-the-workday-september-22-2025

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This weekend, running the 26th through 28th, is Flights of Foundry 2025, an online, global convention focused on the craft, business, and trends in speculative fiction! Registration is free, panels are awesome, and lots of cool folks are attending, including Sheree Renée Thomas, Trick Weeks, Vajra Chandrasekera, and Anna Martino! You can see the full list of attendees here on their website, and the full program is at this link.

And, of course, no convention is complete without vendors – including Duck Prints Press! Many of the vendors (myself included) offer convention-exclusive coupons and other deals. Here’s the full vendor list.

So, if you’d like to get your read on or your learn on this weekend, and you love speculative fiction, join Dream Foundry, numerous guests, and a bunch of cool vendors for Flights of Foundry!

larryhammer

For Poetry Monday, some self-indulgence. Cut for length:

Cathedral Close, Larry Hammer

Too close, and you see nothing—old
pale limestone, quarried
with smoothness rocks forget
and fleck to worn grains, weather-worried
and rough to hold
against your palm. And yet

( too far, you see too little )

First drafted in my mid-twenties after hiking through slot gorges in Canyonlands National Park, based on memories of growing up a 10 minute walk from the National Cathedral in Washington, DC, and revised over the next decade (after a visit to confirm details).

---L.

Subject quote from Best Guess, Lucy Dacus.

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Posted by Jen

https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/can-i-quote-you-on-that-2025

Woohoo!! National Punctuation Day is coming!

You know what to do!

I stand corrected.

Bakers, contrary to popular belief, those curved thingies are not sideways "happy hugs" for your text; they're parentheses. But I'll make this easy for you: YOU WILL NEVER NEED PARENTHESES ON YOUR CAKES. So don't use them. Ever.

No, not even for a name in all caps.

And not for anniversaries, either.

Gosh. I bet "Mom" is really feeling like part of the family right now.

Which brings me to my next point:

STOP IT WITH THE QUOTATION MARKS ALREADY.

Why are these numbers in quotes? Are they euphemisms or something? Are these people not really 13 and 59? And why does this keep happening, anyway?

Oh.

Thanks to Monica, Debb D., Tamara M., Alyssa V., Amy C., Rachel C., and Aurora C. for helping me cover parentheses and quotation marks. Tomorrow: COLONS! (You'll have to check back to see which kind.)

*****

P.S. And here's the official t-shirt of National Punctuation Day:

Punctuation Saves Lives

Proof that educating can also be entertaining!

*****

And from my other blog, Epbot:

https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/can-i-quote-you-on-that-2025

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2015: Five Britons sign for the doomed Mars One venture, the UK pays off its WWI War Loans, and the Liberal Democrats’ adroit political maneuvering yields memorable electoral returns.

Poll #33648 Clarke Award Finalists 2015

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 39

View Respondents

Which 2015 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?

View Answers

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
26 (66.7%)

Europe in Autumn by Dave Hutchinson
8 (20.5%)

Memory of Water by Emmi Itäranta
7 (17.9%)

The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber
4 (10.3%)

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
16 (41.0%)

The Girl with All the Gifts by M. R. Carey
19 (48.7%)

Bold for have read, italic for intend to read, underline for never heard of it.

Which 2015 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Europe in Autumn by Dave Hutchinson
Memory of Water by Emmi Itäranta
The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
The Girl with All the Gifts by M. R. Carey

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Posted by Ben Weiss

https://cheezburger.com/42496005/entitled-neighbors-throw-a-tantrum-after-good-samaritan-removes-their-trash-for-them-they-end-up

So much for being neighborly!

Regardless of where you have lived in your lifetime, you have likely come across a disgruntled individual in your apartment building or neighborhood who seems to enjoy throwing fits about nearly everything under the sun. These curmudgeons take issue with anything and everything, from random apartment noises that do not seem to bother anyone else to the few rules and regulations established by a property manager or HOA that actually make sense.

Let's just say that, unfortunately for this author, they ended up having two of those unpleasant individuals as their next-door neighbors. This entitled couple had been living in this neighborhood for decades and, in recent years, were starting to get older and were less and less cognizant. So, when this resident started to notice that they had a bad habit of leaving their trash out, the author didn't want to make a fuss out of it. Instead, he took care of the trash on their behalf so that no one else would complain.

It seems as if this entitled couple did not notice that there was a Good Samaritan next door, who was willing to help them out time and time again. One day, when the author removed trash for them yet again, the couple decided to accuse them of trespassing. It's like they had an epiphany one moment that someone was doing all this work for them, and for whatever reason, they did not like it. Obviously, most people would be thrilled that someone would be willing to do all this housework for them at no cost. However, for these neighbors, suddenly, there was a problem.

This whole conflict ended up escalating to the point that the HOA got involved. Well, that's technically because of the author, who was tired of being nice. This story just goes to show that there are some folks out there who are incapable of being grateful for the good people in their lives. This couple was so easily aggravated that they were too quick to misjudge the situation at hand. As a result, they ended up with a considerable fine from their HOA. That's what you get, folks!

https://cheezburger.com/42496005/entitled-neighbors-throw-a-tantrum-after-good-samaritan-removes-their-trash-for-them-they-end-up

dewline

I'm maintaining an account on that Penticton, BC-based social media service, partly as a fallback measure in case I lose access to Mastodon, Bluesky and Twitter-as-was, and partly as a means of supporting made-in-Canada social media. You can find my account here:

https://hey.cafe/@dewline

Yes, I expect to set up something with Gander as well, for similar reasons.

Current Mood: busy

drglam

My boss has pulled off a miracle, and found some funding. My job (and FlyBase) is safe for the next year.

We're still waiting to find out whether the grant is reinstated. Our Cambridge UK site (also safe for a year) will have to do some scrambling, as current government policies have cut off international funding for grants.

We've lost a lot of people at Harvard; a retired curator who was doing a few hours a week, our New Mexico curator, and one of our sysadmins were let go at the end of August (plus we'd laid off the senior curator and senior developer just before the current nightmare). Our project manager was let go by Harvard a couple of weeks ago. The other remaining curator and one of our two developers are leaving in mid-October, as they are feeling too burned out and traumatized to keep going, so they've accepted layoff. We're left with one curator (me), one developer, and one (.6 FTE) sysadmin.

Cambridge and Indiana aren't (yet) losing people. There's three full-time developers at IU, and a lot of curators (no devs) at Cambridge, half of whom were not funded under the main FlyBase grant.

dewline

Hoping you're doing well these days!

Current Mood: busy

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Posted by Stephen Johnson

https://lifehacker.com/entertainment/current-trends-explained-d4vd?utm_medium=RSS

This week's tour of the world of young people careens around like an out-of-control bullet train. Everyone's talking about a pop star with a body in his trunk, a dental trend powered by TikTok, astrology-based beauty tutorials, and a football stat hound's ultimate rabbit hole. It’s a lot to take in.

Who is D4vd and why was there a body in his trunk?

Everyone under a certain age is talking about the singer D4vd, and it's not because he has a new album out. On September 8, Los Angeles police discovered a body in the trunk of an abandoned Tesla registered to David Anthony Burke, the birth name of the 20-year-old musician. The body was later identified as the remains of Celeste Rivas, who was reported missing from her home in Riverside on April 5, 2024, when she was just 13 years old.

The online speculation is that D4vd was in a relationship with Rivas, but that has yet to be confirmed. The singer has reportedly been cooperating with authorities, no cause of death has been determined, and no charges have yet been filed.

If you're wondering who D4vd is, you're not alone: The singer's rise to fame is a quintessentially Generation Z story. His career began with online fame gained through posting Fortnite videos online, but YouTube removed his content for using copyrighted music. At the suggestion of his mom, D4vd began recording original songs using free iPhone tools, which he posted to SoundCloud. The end result was a recording contract, an album, and a couple of songs with over 1.5 billion plays on Spotify.

D4vd's biggest hit, "Romantic Homicide" mixes the pop music of the 1970s with 1990s-style lo-fi production, and it's actually good. But D4vd's lyrics are chilling given later developments. "I killed you and I didn't even regret it," he sings on the track, "I can't believe I said it, but it's true."

But just because you write a song about killing your lover doesn't mean you're guilty of it. In any case, the story is dark, tragic, and developing, and D4vd is innocent until proven guilty.

Hot Generation Z trend: veneers

Yeah, it's a mood shift to go from murder to teeth, but such is the nature of life in 2025. Anyway, the newest dental trend among younger people is veneers. Whether it's speculation that Gen Z super-celebrity Mr.Beast is rocking a set of artificial choppers, the 250,000 videos posted to TikTok's #veneers tag, or the below deep-dive on the topic from venerable YouTuber Papa Meat, false fronts are very of-the-moment.

Maybe the fascination comes from the straight, white teeth of influencers. Maybe it's hyper-awareness of teeth caused by taking too many selfies. Or maybe it's because veneers are sort of funny. Choose your own explanation.

Hot Generation Z trend: astrological makeup

I'm fascinated with makeup trends and pop occultism, so I'm glad makeup influencers are bringing my two interests together on TikTok. The new hotness among makeup influencers is the “rising sign" beauty trend, where the makeup you wear is determined by your astrological sign.

In astrology, your "rising sign" supposedly represents how other people see you. So if your rising sign is Scorpio, you might go with a look that's "intense, dark, and dramatic." If Gemini is rising, you want to go "playful and vibrant."

I don't understand how the position of the stars at the time you were born could possibly inform the makeup choices you make next Thursday, but if combining mysticism with style choices makes it a little easier for people to slog through another day, I'm in favor.

First AI-animated feature film in production

We all knew it was going to happen eventually, and now it has: OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, announced today that it's producing the first feature film animated solely through artificial intelligence. Critterz, a feature-length version of the AI-made short film above, has a $30 million budget, and production will be finished in nine months, an impossibly short time-frame for a traditionally animated or CGI film. Critterz's animation may be AI, but its script and voice acting are being done the old-fashioned way—by professional Hollywood actors and writers who will gladly let OpenAI pay them a lot of money for making funny voices.

According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, Open AI hopes to premiere Critterz at the Cannes Film Festival, presumably in 2027. Whether anyone wants to see an AI-animated movie remains to be seen. It sounds like a terrible idea to me, but I'm not the target demographic. Anyway, you can check out the first teaser/promo video here.

Viral video of the week: Scorigami returns

Leave it to Gen Z to come up with a new way to enjoy football. "Scorigami" is a term coined by writer/YouTuber John Bois that describes an NFL final score that has never happened before in the league's history. YouTube channel Secret Base is in the middle of a four-part examination of the phenomenon that starts with the first ever NFL football game played in 1922 and continues to the present, seen through the lens of "this is the only time any two pro teams have ended a game with this score."

The series is equal parts sports, history, comedy, and statistics, with fascinating digressions and side trips to explore things like how the NFL owes its entire existence to a random guy's truck breaking down in Texas at the turn of the century and how it's possible—extremely unlikely, but still possible—to score a single point in a football game. In other words, it's the kind of documentary that would be rejected by ESPN for being too math-y and rejected by PBS for being too sporty, but is able to find a home and hundreds of thousands of viewers because YouTube exists.

https://lifehacker.com/entertainment/current-trends-explained-d4vd?utm_medium=RSS

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This is a 77-inch QD-OLED from Samsung’s 2024 lineup, second only to their flagship S95D. It’s powered by their new Neo Quantum 4K AI Gen 2 chip, which helps with upscaling and automatic adjustments depending on what you’re watching or playing. Just know that while HDR10+ is supported, Dolby Vision is still missing. It’s a good pick for gaming with 4K at up to 144Hz, VRR support across the board (HDMI VRR, FreeSync, G-Sync), and a very low input lag in Game Mode. If you’ve got both a console and a gaming PC, you’ll appreciate the full HDMI 2.1 bandwidth on all ports. It’s also fully compatible with both PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S. As for the display itself, it’s what you’d expect from a quality OLED: deep blacks, rich contrast, and no blooming around bright objects. It holds up well in darker rooms and offers wide viewing angles, which is nice if you’re watching with a group.

In brighter settings, though, it doesn’t get as punchy. SDR brightness is average, and dark scenes can look a little washed out in harsh daylight. That said, reflection handling is solid for daytime viewing. And while it supports Dolby Atmos over eARC, there’s no support for DTS audio formats, so that’s something to note for Blu-ray fans. Samsung also dropped ATSC 3.0 support for the 2024 models, so no 4K over-the-air broadcasts. And like most smart TVs these days, the built-in Tizen interface has ads; although you can reduce them, there’s no way to turn them off fully. But for everything the S90D does get right, including gaming performance, viewing angles, and a clean panel with almost no blooming, it holds up well as a mid-high-end option for most setups.

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Posted by Stephen Johnson

https://lifehacker.com/entertainment/current-trends-explained-d4vd?utm_medium=RSS

Who is D4vd and why was there a body in his trunk?

But just because you write a song about killing your lover doesn't mean you're guilty of it. In any case, the story is dark, tragic, and developing, and D4vd is innocent until proven guilty.

Hot Generation Z trend: veneers

Hot Generation Z trend: astrological makeup

First AI-animated feature film in production

Viral video of the week: Scorigami returns

https://lifehacker.com/entertainment/current-trends-explained-d4vd?utm_medium=RSS

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Title: The Clue in the Shopping List
Fandom: Miss Marple/Sherlock Holmes
Pairing/Characters: Jane Marple & Sherlock Holmes
Content Notes: No warning needed
Prompt: September 22nd: grocery list

The Clue in the Shopping List on AO3

spikedluv

I have had trouble keeping up with my summer shows, so it was difficult to get myself to pay any attention to fall programing. The only good thing is that there is only one new show I'm interested in giving a try (and that's only because it's in the 9-1-1 'verse), and there's only a total of four shows on my fall viewing schedule.

( Table back here )

What shows are you looking forward to coming back and/or what new shows are you checking out?

dewline

...but I think BBC News buried a lede here: they have SONGS, TOO???

Current Mood: surprised

melagan

Home again. I've been away for a few days visiting family in another state. The internet is available, but I haven't been on it much. So *waves to my DW peeps*

Sept is always busy. Much adulting has ensued all month. Stuff like car inspections and flu shots. Nothing glamorous - trust me on that. Now hopefully I can get back to that

trope_of_the_month fic I've been messing with.

:)

seekingferret

Everyone Is Lying to You by Jo Piazza

I saw a recommendation for this a few months ago, but it's new and I didn't get it from my library until now. In the meantime, I read Piazza's The Sicilian Inheritance and didn't like it that much, so I wasn't sure how I would feel about this one. Fortunately, I thought this was much better.

It advertises as Gone Girl with tradwives, and... it does some cool inversion with that premise. Our narrator Lizzie is a magazine editor who lived in New York with her magazine writer husband until husband lost his job and they had to flee to the Philly suburbs, where he is pretending to write a novel. So they are very clearly a take on Nick and Amy, who have a very similar backstory of being failed NYC magazine people, but the book's first twist is that Lizzie and Philip have a solid marriage. It's not perfect, there are anxieties and conflicts that the book is very interested in, but Piazza sets you up to expect them to be the gone girl couple and then gives you a shocking normalcy. No, it is instead Lizzie's college roommate Bex, who lives on a farm with her husband and six children streaming tiktoks of chickens and homeschooling and #farmlife, who pulls a gone girl on us, a twisty tale of lies and misdirection and violence that ultimately ends up with a very Amy-like pseudofeminist girlboss victory.

I really liked the way the death of magazines here talks back to Gone Girl and speaks to a different, more continuous kind of attention economy. In place of the metronomic daily 10 o'clock news updates about the missing woman, there is the constant algorithmic thrum of tiktoks, complicated by the fact that as Piazza points out several times, influencer videos are typically filmed in batches and released to look timely. The takeover of our attention, so much more invasive than in 2009, is a deliberate campaign of time manipulation. Everyone is lying to you.

Piazza does a very good job of capturing the unreality of the influencer life style and butting it up against the fact that influencers still have human realities to navigate. I love the way she uses the setting of an influencer conference to establish this contrast, with the constant pressure to maintain an image set up against a cadre of savvy women who know all the tricks and aren't fooled. Cleverly, the conference hotel has its own agenda and is trying to craft and sell its own kind of luxurious unreality.

What Piazza's storytelling still lacks is a graceful way to provide exposition. The big reveal felt so awkward it left me cold. She is a gifted narrator of social details, but not a great mystery writer either here or in The Sicilian Inheritance . In Gone Girl, Amy's diary is functional, it's part of her plan, so it's not just a big infodump... and anyway, it's unreliable, so youhave to read against the diary account. The Bex exposition sections of this book don't have any of that exterior motivation. They solely exist because somehow Piazza needs to explain what happened and this is the best she has come up with. It's a shame, because with slightly better packaging this would have been an incredibly memorable story.

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Shows: SGA
Rec Category: AU - no Stargate
Characters: Rodney McKay/John Sheppard, Teyla Emmagan, Ronon Dex, Elizabeth Weir, Jeannie, Kaleb, Madison.
Categories: M/M
Words: ~8200
Warnings: no AO3-type warnings apply
Author on DW:

wojelah
Author's Website: wojelah on AO3, Wojelah on LJ
Link: Bar Harbor's Best on LJ (and backup on Wayback). There's also a podfic read by rhea314.
Why This Must Be Read: This is an enjoyable no-Stargate AU in which John is a lobster boat and whale-watching charter skipper. Rodney is a brewer and winemaker from a local vineyard family who'd left Bar Harbor in Maine for a few years after an argument with his family, but who's now returned to renovate the local pub. The usual suspects are translated into local characters - Ronon a chef, and Teyla an environmentalist, for example. There's romance, adventure at sea, and of course a happy ending - it's a lot of fun!

( snippet of fic )

spikedluv

I hit Stewart’s on the way home from mom’s, did two loads of laundry (both washed, dried AND folded (or hung up, as the case may be)), hand-washed dishes and ran a load in the dishwasher, went on a couple of walks with Pip and the dogs, baked chicken for the dogs' meals and also cut up chicken for the dog’s meals, scooped kitty litter, and showered.

I finished Key Lime Sky, read some fanfic, and watched an HGTV program.

Temps started out at 37.8(F) (though it must’ve been colder than that because Pip saw some frost on his first walk of the morning) and reached 75.0. I wore leggings and a long-sleeved t-shirt given how cold it was in the morning, and I roasted on our walks in the afternoon.

Mom Update:

Mom was a little more tired today. ( more back here )

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Posted by Emma Saven

https://cheezburger.com/42477317/when-i-told-her-we-had-video-she-confessed-woman-catches-her-good-friend-stealing-her-boyfriends

A friend is not a friend if they are stealing from you. End of story…The fact that this girl has so much patience for someone with such minimal respect is actually impressive. We clap our hands for her, because wow…This deceitful 'friend' decides that a fancy dinner party is the perfect time to steal her friend's man's camera. Not some $15 disposable camera, but a very expensive one.

I guessed she hoped no one would suspect her, but after the sweet girl and boyfriend watched the surveillance footage, it was clear as day: Not only was their friend a liar, but a thief too ... She was feeling extremely conflicted about how to go about the situation. They've been good friends for years, and yes, looking back, there were some…red flags, but to file a police report against a friend feels like a last resort, regardless of what her boyfriend wants.

https://cheezburger.com/42477317/when-i-told-her-we-had-video-she-confessed-woman-catches-her-good-friend-stealing-her-boyfriends

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"My/Our" put in the title because we're plural, but hi I'm Jade (she/they/bark)! I wanna get this system more into journaling again :] but for now here's my/our anwsers.

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