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Joyce's avatar

Leaves the room quietly, closing the door softly. 😳🤔🫨

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Kathrine Elaine's avatar

@joyce you’re lovely, I’m just fooling around 😏

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Joyce's avatar

I know, Kathrine 🙂, just pulling your leg. I’m just a tad annoyed about another Substack glitch… someobe just subscribed to me and seemingly blocked me simultaneously!

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Kathrine Elaine's avatar

That’s weird..🤔 I hope the person makes up their mind to subscribe, or probably it’s a glitch.

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Joyce's avatar

Got an email of a new subscription and checked their @ to make sure I use the right name in a Thank you Note, and I was blocked!

There are now too many glitches.

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Paolo Peralta's avatar

Gently.…..

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Talie Miller's avatar

Hahaha

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Angela Morris's avatar

This is everything I didn't know I needed to read tonight....and then there was "what the fuck is this and how can it have 2k subs" and I almost spit out my tea.

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My Friend Lisa's avatar

ahahaha seriously

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Anne Marie Bell's avatar

It's the question we'd all like answered.

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Ahalya Wise's avatar

Right?!

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Tim Owen's avatar

Actually, this is a nice piece of writing. It humorously points out that we as people want attention or think that we’re the only ones that see problems that need to be shouted out. And you did something the few do. You didn’t call for the cancelation of others but you did requested, in rather a nice way, that we look in that mirror and examine our motivations. I’ve thought about writing here but wondered if I’m just going to be in a long line of, well, wannabes or whiners. I’d just hate that. If we’re not going to do some good or make people laugh til their guts hurt, what’s the point?

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Kathrine Elaine's avatar

You never know how your writing makes people feel, until you actually share it here! So, go ahead! Maybe you’ll become someone’s favourite Substack writer!

Thank you for the kind words.🩶

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Kimberly Anne's avatar

Hi Tim, I say write away, no matter!! Not everyone can write humorously but that doesn’t mean their (your) thoughts are not valid, entertaining or helpful!!

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Tim Owen's avatar

Thank you. 😃

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Kimberly Anne's avatar

Thank you for subscribing!! 😃

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Feasts and Fables's avatar

The words, dammit! They’re always the point. Tim, I say just write … obviously, light a candle first and go gently with yourself 😉

Write whatever comes to mind and there’ll be an audience, for sure. Or write a comment on someone else’s stuff … which you just did and we’re all drawn to comment back. Just write, right! Also, have fun.

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Paolo Peralta's avatar

Agree

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kaylen alexandra's avatar

First: I’m living for the toilet frog. Where can I find one of those.

Second: I’m the gentle guru and you just helped me figure that out … so I’m going to reevaluate life with a sage stick and cuppa chai 😅

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Kathrine Elaine's avatar

I love the frog too! Dunno, found it on Canva pictures. Maybe google it?😅

Juniper. Juniper I tell you! It’s what the folks here use in paganic house-cleansing rituals. Smoking the rooms with juniper.😶‍🌫️

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Alison Macaulay's avatar

It's going to make your house (sorry "space") reek of gin, so if that's the 2025 vibe you're going for, whyever not?

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Kathrine Elaine's avatar

Perfect!🤩

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Kathrine Elaine's avatar

Perfect!🐸😂

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Jeannine's avatar

My eldest son is definitely getting one for his birthday - it's okay, he knows Mommy is a weirdo! 🐸

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Kathrine Elaine's avatar

Aw, that would be such a cute gift!🤭

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kaylen alexandra's avatar

You are amazing Jeannine!

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Jeannine's avatar

Naw, I'm just a good hunter. 😉

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Kristi Keller 🇨🇦's avatar

There are a hundred versions of that frog on unsplash!

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Kathrine Elaine's avatar

I had no idea!😅 I don’t hang around unsplash.🤷‍♀️ canva is where I get free images, all I thought was - what a silly cute frog.😅🐸

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Kristi Keller 🇨🇦's avatar

I'm a Canva Pro subscriber as well but in my Medium years I always used Unsplash. Found the frog in many positions 🤣

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Ray Cabarga's Break from Hell's avatar

prompt: anthropomorphic green tree frog, sitting on the toilet scrolling, maybe!

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James Ross's avatar

I can’t disagree with the list, but mainly I just love that you used the word ‘shite’.

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Deborah T. Hewitt's avatar

ha ha! 😂

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Lydia Davidson's avatar

I belong to at least three categories - whiny, the one who quotes and restacks, and I did once post a pic of a peacock. Goodness!

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Kathrine Elaine's avatar

Oh no, a peacock! The horror!😱🦚 😂

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K Sav's avatar

…erm, not kidding, look at my blog masthead 😬

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Kathrine Elaine's avatar

I did.🙂

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K Sav's avatar

Got me!

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H. M. Vigness's avatar

I am also a multiple personality Substackian. There should be a support group or something.

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Feasts and Fables's avatar

Time to build a community!

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The Man Behind the Screen's avatar

I'm gonna start sharing more posts of my foster kittens just to annoy you :P

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Kathrine Elaine's avatar

Bring it on!😼

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The Man Behind the Screen's avatar

Oh they comin' 🐈

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Jeannine's avatar

She likes kittens. 😅

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© David's avatar

You forgot the List-o-Phile.

Everything gotta be a freaking list, lists of lists of lists!

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Cork Hutson's avatar

Actually, this one was sort of a Listicle: "16 'Stacks to Hate" or maybe "Sixteen Substack Styles to Make Readers Hate You" Haha.

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© David's avatar

Exactly ! Doesn't get any more meta than that!

I'm going to endeavor to write, "My 12 Favorite Posts About Listicles."

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Cork Hutson's avatar

Perfect … LOL.

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Angela Morris's avatar

OMG YES, the lists, I love them and love to hate them, give me more.

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Lisa’s Alternate Reality's avatar

🤣🤣🤣🤣💯💯

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Kristi Keller 🇨🇦's avatar

🤣🤣🤣 This made me laugh all the way through. The one that made me laugh most was the "gentle" ones. The slow living people who live as one with blades of grass 😁

I am guilty of being an animalist. I'm literally launching a dogstack on Monday lol

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Jean Marie Bauhaus's avatar

So basically Kathrine hates everybody. 🤣

I'm going to keep posting pet pics, so there. 😝

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Kathrine Elaine's avatar

No, this is only the small fraction of what I hate.😂 just kidding!

The above mentioned are a small part of Substack, and the majority are pretty decent people, you including.

But the pet pics I can’t stand not one bit. Except for utterly cute cats. I love cats.😻

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Rat's avatar

I belong to three categories at once: «what the fork is this? a political animal?»

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K Sav's avatar

Excellent observations! (Now love me cos I liked you)

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Donn Harper Jr.'s avatar

As a WTF is this ist.

I feel called upon to..

Ooh look it's shiny!

A shiny squirrel...

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Liz Zimmers's avatar

Fabulous, hysterical, and true (given the day and my mood). Way to vent!

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William Pauley III's avatar

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 You're one of my favorite people I've met through Substack, for sure. No filters. No bullshit. I love it. Thank you for being you. 🤘

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Kathrine Elaine's avatar

No filter, you got that right…😂 Thank you 🩶

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Stirling S Newberry's avatar

I will work harder to be on the list.

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