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Jen the Bug (she/her)
@jenthebug.bsky.social
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Mom, wife, EMS dispatcher. Proudly bisexual. Not a leader or a follower, but a helper. Creativity and gratitude keep me going.
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corgi.exe has stopped
A corgi laying on her side, belly exposed, with a blank expression
November 13, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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Left a little something for my relief 😁
A dry erase marker cartoon of a woman with brown hair and glasses, saying “Welcome to work, front half! May your coffee be strong.”
November 9, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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I just worked 12 1/2 hours. I got super lucky—my relief called out sick, but the swing shift dispatcher is a real one and came in early.
A middle aged woman in a hoodie, smiling and flashing a peace sign
November 8, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Being a MIGHTY WARRIOR is a matter of heart and honor, not anatomy. Soba, 3
A black cat laying on his back with his paws up, obviously neutered
November 6, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Bear time!!
A middle aged woman in a bear onesie
November 1, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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Chaos is a ghost. More specifically, she’s the ghost of a Chaos ride that was decommissioned by an amusement park. She haunts the park, meddling in the affairs of the employees, and falls in love with one of the park’s paramedics.
A Chaos ride, a brightly colored tilting wheel with tilting seats around the edge. Manufactured by Chance Rides. No longer supported due to numerous safety incidents.
October 16, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Poor Soba Tinycat is having a bad day. He only got a few bonito flakes. He wasn’t allowed in the game room to fuck shit up. (He never is, but he was Big Mad about it) And I didn’t let him attack me while I painted my nails. So awful!

I played string with him for a while to cheer him up.
A black cat sitting on a yellow box, looking over his shoulder
October 2, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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If you see this, quote skeet with a screenshot from a video game that released the year you were born
A screenshot from Galaga (1981)
September 27, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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A picture of a cat with an “on” slider above him labeled “Violence.” The picture is captioned: “My cat for no reason”
September 12, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Floral dress, floral perfume, and a bouquet 💐
Ani spent the rest of the afternoon after yoga getting ready. She showered and washed, masked, and brushed her hair, leaving it down. She put on her dress; white with dainty purple flowers, tie strap sleeves, nipped in at the waist, with a tiered skirt hitting just above the knee. She put on a pair of white strappy sandals to go with the dress. She put on makeup according to Tara’s instructions, and it actually looked good! She spritzed herself with a tiny spray of Viktor & Rolf Flowerbomb, to make it smell like she just walked through a flower garden. She stopped at Sprouts to get a bouquet. It was mostly sunflowers, she figured those would go best with the decor of his condo. She considered buying a bottle of wine, but decided against it; he told her to ask sober, and she was gonna ask sober, dammit. Instead, she bought a fancy chocolate bar for him. Is this all too much? What if he laughs at me? What if he sits me down for a kind but firm talk about how we’re really not going to date and is a perfect gentleman about it so I can’t even be mad at him? At least I could keep hooking up with Vince. I can’t think like this. Can’t discount myself before I’ve even tried. Ani pulled into the underground garage under Dave’s building and nosed her car into a guest space. From there, she had Dave buzz her in. As she walked down the long hall to his condo, her heart was pounding. She could look down at her dress and see it shaking with each heartbeat. She stopped walking and took a couple deep breaths, then continued.
August 26, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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asked. “I pay more than you do,” Ani said, “AND do all the housework, and empathize with you, and give you sex whenever you want, and put up with your tantrums. I’m done. Pack. Your. Shit.” Ani glanced out at the clock. 3:38. She took her hair down. There was no way she was gonna finish that hair mask. She turned the showerhead to one jet of extreme pressure and started rinsing her hair. “I thought you did all that shit because you actually wanted to!” “The housework needs to be done and you never do it! I want to be a good partner, but lately I have no idea why I try so hard. And I hate your tantrums. Pack your shit!” “What if I don’t?” Mike yelled to be heard over the water. “I’ll call the cops! I’ll tell them that I’m a dispatcher for Gateway!” Ani frantically combed through her hair with her fingers, anticipating a toilet flush at any time. “Where am I gonna go? You just gonna throw me out on the streets?” He asked. “You actually HAVE parents. Call your mommy.” “Bitch, I don’t wanna live with my parents! How am I gonna get a girlfriend?” White-hot rage shot through Ani. He’s already thinking about his next girlfriend? She took a deep breath. “That sounds like your problem, not mine.”
August 21, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Inspired by Work by Jimmy Eat World.
As Jason maneuvered the ambulance through traffic, alerting the few drivers on the road with the sirens, he couldn’t help thinking about what Robin said. Tyrone doesn’t owe me coming out. He slowly accelerated to the company-mandated 10MPH over the speed limit, chuckled, and kept accelerating. He could decide he’s not interested and go back to dating women. He dodged an oblivious driver. He’s a private person, he’s not hiding me, just hiding his sexuality. Which, right now, is me. He turned onto 38th Avenue, again accelerating slowly, as so not to throw the crew in the back off balance. I still don’t know how to feel about all this, he thought, as he pulled into the ambulance bay at Lutheran Medical Center.
August 13, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Soba will play with you! He likes playing wrestling, chase, and smacky smacky!
A black cat with a Tile tracker and a tag reading “SOBA” on his blue collar
August 9, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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CW: Serious injury, car accident
“This is Ani.” “NO WAY!” Eric Valmont, the paramedic team leader, yelled into the phone. “Ani! How you been? How was your time off? We’re so glad to have you back!” “It was,” she took a breath, “about as fun as recovering from a broken humerus and a broken pelvis can be.” “Oh, no! I heard you were in a gnarly wreck, but not what happened.” “Yeah, that happened. I was the passenger in a truck that got t-boned by a bigger truck. I can type now, but I’m still in PT for my arm and I’m still walking with a cane.” “How long before you’re back to normal?” “Anywhere from six months to never,” Ani said with a sigh. “Can I hold you last out from Ops?” “Sure! I’m working with Tim Lemay today.” “Oh good! This’ll be fun.” Ani typed on the computer. “204’s here, too, they’re finishing up a class.” “Is that where my day cars are?” “Yep.” “Oh, Maggie didn’t tell me that. She made me think I was status actually one, not that I had a bunch of paramedics and EMTs at the station that I could use.” “So who’s gonna be the new supervisor? What happened to Dave?” “Call me on a non-recorded line.” With that, Ani hung up.
July 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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The notoriously shy Biscuit let me pet him three times!!
A three legged tabby cat lounging on the floor
July 21, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Took a harbor tour today. We saw the Seattle skyline, learned about the animals in the harbor, but the main draw for me was the MOTHER FUCKIN CONTAINER SHIPS! I love ships and shipping, I find it all fascinating, and we were lucky enough to see one in the harbor tour!
Container ship Cassiopeia being towed to the dock by tugboats. It can hold up to 6000 containers but is not fully loaded in this pic.
July 20, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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A parrot bathing in a bowl, captioned “I take a shower and going drinking coffee”
July 14, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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“Tyrone, I wanted to ask you something special. You too, Ruby. I love you, both of you, so much more than I thought I could love other people. You’ve brought so much light and fun to my life!” Jason knelt down and pulled out two boxes, holding both of them in one hand. He opened them both to reveal a gold men’s ring and a dainty silver women’s ring with a ruby center stone. “May I join your family? Ruby, will you be my stepdaughter? Tyrone, will you marry me?” Tyrone broke down in tears, which got Ruby crying, which caused Jason’s eyes to well up with tears. “Of course, man!” Tyrone took his ring, knelt down on both knees, and kissed the top of Jason’s head. “Thank you, Jason!” Ruby took her ring, sniffling hard. “Of course I’ll be your stepdaughter!” Ruby wrapped her arms around Tyrone and Jason. The three of them held each other and cried, backs shaking, mumbling thanks and love. Ruby’s stomach broke the moment with a loud growl. Tyrone laughed. “We better let you eat, girl!” “Yeah, I’m hungry!” She wiped her eyes. “Practice was hard today!” Tyrone stood and helped Jason up. “I’m hungry too,” he said. “I ain’t had a chance to eat lunch because I had that appointment with my neurologist over my lunch hour.” “Oh, yeah, we better eat!” Jason rushed to the kitchen and lit the candles. “But first, ambience!”
July 9, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn’t a selfie.
A sun conure screaming. To the left, the word “SCREM”
June 26, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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A can of “BITCH BE GONE” made of perler beads Chargin Chuck from Super Mario World surrounded by falling golf balls. One is bouncing off his head. Above him in bubble letters: “BALLS” A sun conure screaming. To the left of him: SCREM A cloaked figure walks through a castle. In a speech bubble he says, “I know you’re here, DRACULA, you big fucking nerd. Where’s my goddamn money?”
June 24, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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This jerk woke me up at 0430.
A tired middle aged woman holding an alert little black cat up to the camera
June 24, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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“Ani, are you actually awake this time?” Tara asked. “Yeah, think so.” “How are you feeling?” Leah asked. “Like I just got hit by a truck.” Tara and Leah erupted in peals of laughter. Naomi chuckled. Dave cringed. Dave took Ani’s left hand. “Ani, I’m so sorry.” “For what?” “That’s what happened. We got hit by a truck. We were driving to dinner. I went forward at a green light, and a Dodge Ram--one of the big ones--ran the light and t-boned us. I have a concussion, but I got off easy compared to you. I’m sorry.” “Don’t be sorry,” Ani said, squeezing his hand. “It was that guy’s fault.” “I know, but if I would have waited just five seconds, this wouldn’t have happened.” “Yeah, but it did. We can’t just make things un-happen. All we can do is move forward from them.” Ani sighed and closed her eyes again. “Hey Ani, we got clothes for you.” Leah pointed to a Target bag on the ground. “A few pairs of pajama pants and some extra large t-shirts.” Ani winced at the thought of putting on a t-shirt. “And I brought your Snuggie from dispatch!” Naomi said.
June 18, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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A soaking wet parrot in a bowl captioned “i take a shower and going drinking coffee”
June 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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A wizard cat holding a cup of coffee in front of an erupting volcano, captioned “why is everything bullshit tho?”
June 10, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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“You won’t regret it.” Jason smiled. “Hey, there’s gonna be a beer bust at Charlie’s this Saturday, wanna go?” “What’s Charlie’s?” Tyrone asked. “Gay bar.” “Gay bar?!” Tyrone’s eyes widened. “You want me to go to the gay bar?” “You don’t have to be gay, it’s not like they check at the door,” Jason said. “Anyway, it’s $2 Bud Lights for the Matthew Shepard Foundation.” Tyrone was silent. A beer bust at a gay bar? Am I really ready for this? Jason continued. “I’m going no matter what, but I’d love to take you and show you a little bit of the gay scene.” “What if someone sees me there?” “Then you just ask them, what were you doing at the gay bar?” Jason took a drink of his coffee. “Besides, the more you get used to the idea and hang out with the community, the less of a big deal it becomes.” The waitress took Tyrone and Jason’s orders. “I’m nervous about it,” Tyrone said, “but I’d rather not miss out on a night of hanging out with you.” Jason blushed. “Thanks.” “I’ll go. You gotta pick me up, though, because I have no idea where this Charlie’s place is.” “Deal. This is gonna be so fun!”
June 5, 2025 at 2:21 AM