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Jules Stark
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A Subtle Calamity. An easily distracted internet weirdo. @InsidiousPie from Twitter. linktr.ee/InsidiousPie
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🥚 My bio dad is an army vet and has told me a lot of fascinating and sometimes funny stories about his military shenanigans. So obviously I sent him an email yesterday thanking him for being his awesome self and surviving long enough that I got to know him. He sent back stories with photos and this:
Screen grab if the text from an email from my bio dad: "I won't send you the really ugly stuff. Just know it was not all fun and games. We did it because we were the garbageman taking out the trash. We did it for people we didn't know. We did it for people we loved. We did it because nobody else would do it. I'm especially proud that I did it for you. My heart hurts that I didn't know about you. My heart is healing because I know about you now. Love you."
November 12, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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My BlueSky feed has IMPECCABLE timing. Also congrats on being that person's mom, I guess? That's a neat trick that I feel like has to involve at least one time travel paradox. 🤣
Two BlueSky posts from my feed. A post by Amy Ash which was reposted by Mara Wilson: "sobbing as mom makes me smoke av whole pack of baseball in one sitting" A post by Graham Stark: "Oh, you like baseball huh? Well, we're going to sit here while you smoke this whole pack of baseball and THEN we'll see how you feel."
October 28, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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Sending all my best vibes! And this picture of my sleeping cats. Just in case y'all need that too!
Seymour the orange cat and Esteban the black cat curled up asleep together on a couch. Esteban has half rolled over to show his tummy and his front paw is curled in front of him while Seymour has buried his face in the blanket he's laying on.
October 21, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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I'm just a little internet stranger, but I'm offering you all the good vibes I have to spare. And also these photos of my cats doing curled feetsies.

May you find solace in your happy memories during this difficult time. 💜
Esteban Cien Almas the black cat laying on his back on the couch next to my leg. His front feet are curled up in front of him and his head is leaned back, asleep. Seymour Headbutts the orange cat laying half on his side in a bed. His two front feet are curled up in front of him and he's looking at the camera like he's begging for belly rubs.
October 6, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Beth was an incredible woman and the world is both richer for having had her in it and poorer for being without her now.

But a photo of her joy is better than nothing at all. So I'll leave y'all with two photos of my parents when they were about the age I am now.

Rest in peace, mum. 💜
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Two Polaroid photos of my parents are side by side on a wooden table. On the left, one of my mum. A white women with dark brown hair in a tank top on a sailboat. Her head is tilted back in laughter and the sun is shining on her face and shoulders. On the right, my dad. A white man with brown hair and a mustache dressed in formal attire. A woman with dark brown hair (my mum) is fixing the buttons on his vest. He's looking at her deft hands with an endearing expression of love on his face.
October 4, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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@fridaytea.com delivery on a Thursday? Impeccable!

This restock of my tea supplies is equal parts stuff I want to try, stuff I think my partner would like, and stuff my youngest sister requested when I told her I was restocking. 😋 Plus some bonus freebies because the tea goblins are very generous!
8 large green resealable bags of loose tea and 3 tiny pouches of loose tea all lined up nicely on a table. In the top row: Sweaters & Stars, French Cookie, Choco Mint Magic, Food For Tot The 3 sample pouches in the middle: Draw Me A Sheep, Baby Steps, Crystal Garden In the bottom row: Tulsi De Leche, Earl Gay (no that is not a typo), Pear White Peony, Gleam's Glow
October 2, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Did my partner and I drive 30 minutes to get Tim Hortons for breakfast? Yep. And it was worth it.
A paper pouch with an apple fritter in it, a tiny box of TimBits, and a Tim Hortons cup sitting on a table.
September 6, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Updates: my partner has bought me emotional support rum. 😋
Jules's hand holding a deep green bottle full of Diplomático Reserva Exclusiva rum.
July 31, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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It's taken me over a year to locate it, BUT HERE IS THE COOL ROCK I PROMISED TO SHOW YOU!
A cool gray rock that kind of looks like a house with a multi-level roof. That or maybe a church. A different angle view of the same rock.
July 28, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Why, yes. I did take MANUAL NOTES for drafting a reply to the email sent out by the head of the lake association. And yes. I DID write what almost amounts to an essay's worth of text airing grievances and documenting every time she contradicted herself. 🙃

She engaged my latent Lawyer's Kid skills.
Jules peering over the top of an open notebook she's holding in front of herself. It says "great ideas" on the cover.
July 19, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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And lastly, some adoptee flavor for this series! 🥚
July 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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And part 2! Revenge Of More Duplicate Kitchen Implements!
July 16, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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The saga continues! Today: Duplicate Kitchen Implements!
July 16, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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It's been a minute, but we've finally transitioned to Shit Jules Found While Cleaning Out Her Dead Dad's House! Today's episode includes a fancy silver serving thing? Like a posh buffet chafing dish. Why do we have this? And why only one of them?
July 15, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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This time a week ago I was freaking out as the last minute details of Night 1 of our big party were being pulled together.

Tonight, I'm noodling around the internet and mulling over requests from MULTIPLE guests to run it back as a reunion next year!

So, ummm... Inklings? How's May 2026 looking?
A table full of beautiful shirts made by the Inklings. All folded, tied up in little bundles with names labels on them, and arranged in little stacks forming a big rainbow across the table.
June 27, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Here are the group photos I've managed to assemble so far! CHECK OUT THIS RAINBOW OF WONDERFUL WEIRDOS!
Purple Team photo with Zach and Jules in their Tie Dye shirts! We're all gathered around the one end of a long table inside a sort of lodge building with big windows behind us. We all look very happy but also very tired and sweaty! Team Pink all sat at a picnic table together looking very happy! A group photo of Team Yellow along with Ken, Jules, and Zach in Tie Dye. (Some members of Team Yellow swapped out to other shirts after getting too hot and sweaty dancing in the hot sunshine!) A group photo with Green Team and Jules on a set of stairs. There are a variety of silly and happy faces along with two very tired little children.
June 23, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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DAY THREE IS DONE! We've partied all weekend and now we're heading home. We had an amazing time uniting all our loved ones. We're so lucky to be so loved by so many people!
Jules wearing a rainbow mermaid dress and looking tired but content sitting in the front seat of the car with her seat belt on.
June 22, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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I don't yet have photos of all the color groups or permission to share the ones I do have, so for now this photo my husband took of me eating a chickie nuggy will have to suffice!
Jules in her rainbow tie-dye t-shirt trying to sort of smile while eating a chicken nugget
June 22, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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DAY TWO BEGINS! And I've made a handy chart so folks can figure out who the fuck everyone else is!
The Patrick "WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE?!" meme from spongebob. The eyes under his rock have been replaced with our rainbow of t-shirts. Underneath the meme is a color key: Red Team: Jules's Bio Family (last name censored) Orange Team: Jules's Adoptive Mom's Family (last name censored) Yellow Team: Jules's Adoptive Dad's Family (last name censored) Green Team: Jules-iverse Aqua Team: Zach's Family (last name censored) Blue Team: Ken's Family (last name censored) Purple Team: College/Adult Friends Pink Team: Zach-o-sphere Tie Dye: Jules, Zach, and Ken Each entry in the key is written in its respective color including "Tie Dye" being written in alternating colors of the rainbow.
June 21, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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TODAY'S THE DAY! Or at least, today is day one of party times! Welcome dinner at the Air Museum! It's gonna be OUT OF THIS WORLD!

..... I'll see myself out
Jules wearing a very rainbow dress, a rainbow beaded necklace, and with her blue and purple hair all done up in curls, standing in front of an astronaut suit and doing a silly smile.
June 20, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Okay team. What should I name him?
A 4 ft tall inflatable rubber ducky.
June 19, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Well somebody in this house had to! Seymour was too tired to find the brain cell today.
Seymour the orange cat sleeping sideways on a couch on top of a folded up pink and white fluffy knitted blanket. His front feetsies are curled up in front of him.
June 19, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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I obviously can't say for certain, but I choose to believe the green shirt that Esteban is quality checking today is the same one from the picture the Inklings posted. 🥰
Esteban the black cat laying on the couch next to a green t-shirt that's neatly folded on top of a not-so-neat pile of a beach towel.
June 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Said order being quality checked by Esteban Cien Almas. (It passed, thank goodness!)
Two big boxes, both full of t-shirts made by the Inklings, stacked one on top of another. The top one is open revealing a plastic wrapped stack of shirts, the top ones being blue. Esteban the black cat is nuzzling and sniffing the bottom corner of the top box to inspect it.
June 18, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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"But Jules!" I hear you cry, "This is the gayest straight wedding I've ever heard of! What if your attendees are simply not gay enough?"

And to that I say "Fret not, mon frer. I got this covered!"
A package of several pairs of sunglasses with rainbow striped frames surrounded by three piles of rainbow colored Mardi Gras style beads. The right pile's necklaces have heart shaped beads, the left side has beads that say "LOVE" and the upper pile are just regular beads.
June 13, 2025 at 4:43 PM