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Kathleen Towers, still haunted

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Inveterate bookworm & inquisitive engineer Interests: horror fiction & film, detective fiction, speculative fiction, romance novels, IndyCar, F1, NCAA Football, Gators, Bearcats, Ohio, hiking, handicrafts #uglydogs FOREVER She/her

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I mean, church was always about the less-concrete life values stuff & on some level, I’d always understood God/Jesus as a myth.

I mean, we weren’t really ritualistically consuming the son of God at mass on Sunday, were we?

And then my baby sister came out.

10.03.2026 13:31 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I mean, I think it mostly depends on how many friends/family in service you have?

08.03.2026 21:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Slash/Back (2022) is a fun low-budget horror film where Inuit girls hunt aliens?

07.03.2026 02:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Text chat:

My sister, Mary: “Tonight aspen said he loves me, mama, grandma, grandpa, KT, and cookies….etc. 

I can’t believe we all rank higher than cookies! 🤣🤣🤣”

Me, in response: “Awwwww. I love Aspen more than cookies too.”

Text chat: My sister, Mary: “Tonight aspen said he loves me, mama, grandma, grandpa, KT, and cookies….etc. I can’t believe we all rank higher than cookies! 🤣🤣🤣” Me, in response: “Awwwww. I love Aspen more than cookies too.”

Y’all, I might be the cool aunt (or at least a cool aunt he spoke to shortly before bedtime)!

07.03.2026 02:15 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I mean, I think a 4-way would have at least onions or beans?

06.03.2026 21:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

every time i hear someone say "gritty" to mean "edgy, dark" i just replace "gritty" with

06.03.2026 04:36 👍 39 🔁 6 💬 3 📌 0

I mean, with how common gray cars have become, “Bludicrous” seems appropriate.

06.03.2026 14:28 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I am continuing to spitefully write my own emails.

06.03.2026 14:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

So far at my office, people have mostly asked it questions & proved it was wrong and used it to reformat text documents (ie make a list of addresses easier to copy/paste).

06.03.2026 14:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

We saw this exactly a week after my friend’s sister, so as we’re walking out, she called her sister and was all, “Seven days!” in a growly voice.

05.03.2026 15:23 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Direct link worked for me—it was a fun episode, too.

05.03.2026 14:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ike, I grew up in Porkopolis. Flying pigs are sort of a thing in Cincy.

05.03.2026 14:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The pigs are cute.

05.03.2026 12:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

This is why my niece Mika had 2 identical Tiggers, one of whom lived quietly up in a laundry room cabinet.

02.03.2026 14:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Important convos are always phone calls, anyway.

02.03.2026 04:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My sister Em’s a lawyer now (but she’d probably agree w you).

02.03.2026 03:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

This sounds similar to me being pretty much constantly jealous of the fantastic dinosaur prints only available in preschool sizes.

01.03.2026 16:38 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Sarah’s cooler than I am. And I think Em is too.

27.02.2026 21:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Not the cool aunt.

27.02.2026 19:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

What 50%?

27.02.2026 19:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

What did you want to be when you grew up (in chronological order)?

1. Astronaut
2. Writer
3. Radio Astronomer
4. Bioinformatics Engineer
5. Employed/Self-Sustaining & Less Depressed
6. The Cool Aunt

27.02.2026 15:04 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Name 5 authors you’ve read 3 short stories by (stories have to be published within the last 10 years).

Amber Sparks
Ananda Lima
Premee Mohamed
Cassandra Khaw
Sam J Miller

26.02.2026 22:38 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

It was never about fairness in high school sports, it was always about destroying trans people’s lives

26.02.2026 14:17 👍 694 🔁 161 💬 1 📌 0

But we could be reincarnated as giant tortoises or capybaras or something cool.

25.02.2026 15:02 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

So dinosaur origami + weekly book club proved sufficient distraction from SOTU.

25.02.2026 05:01 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ike, thank-you for volunteering for Dinosaur Origami Night. Next time, we’ll start w/ the beginner models.

25.02.2026 04:56 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Intimidating younger sisters, cool friends, a lot of books.

25.02.2026 04:10 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Love living in a state where vaccine rates have fallen sufficiently that the disease that almost killed my mother as a kid is still a problem.

25.02.2026 03:56 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Have told James Thomson, my drama major friend, that he needs to write the script for a film adaptation of this. B/c I need one to exist.

25.02.2026 03:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“It’s the journey, not the destination.”

25.02.2026 03:13 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0