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That Darn Jess
@thatdarnjess.bsky.social
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She/her Socially awkward penguin, intersectional feminist, nerd. "There's only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you've got to be kind."
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Every time I see some gamerbro edit of a female video game character to make her 'prettier', I always see something I have mentally dubbed Cockroach Wife Syndrome (in honor of the guy who accidentally conditioned himself to only be aroused by a fantasy of his cockroach wife Ogtha). That is to say, there is a certain subset of gamerbro who interacts so rarely with real women, that his primary touchstone for how women look is fiction: often video games and anime. So when a video game woman looks too realistic--too close to having traits that one might find in real flesh and blood women--this is foreign to them. This is unattractive. They have been jacking it to hentai and blender animation porn for too many years, and have inadvertently conditioned themselves to only be sexually aroused by the exaggerated cartoonish traits of animated women. So now every time I see one such edit, I can't help but think. My. What a coincidence you've made her look more like an anime waifu. Truly dedicated to your cockroach wife.
October 12, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Every social media platform today: Drink lots of water! Symptoms of heat stroke! Medications that make you more sensitive to heat!

Meanwhile in Portland:
Screen shot of a weather app showing heavy rain and a current temperature of 56F (feels like 47F).
June 21, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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“There’s some good in this world… and it’s worth fighting for.”
A flat of bright red, perfectly ripe strawberries.
June 10, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Calvin & Hobbes comic strip Panel 1: Calvin running Panel 2: Calvin skids to a stop. Off-screen voice “Calvin, stop running through the house!” Panel 3: Calvin, looking at the viewer “The law is on the books, but it would take all their resources to enforce it.” Panel 4: Calvin runs off as off-screen voice shouts “CALVIN!”
June 8, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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Signing into Bluesky every day like
Panel from a comic strip with a child shouting “AND WHAT MANNER OF JACKASSERY MUST WE PUT UP WITH TODAY?!”
May 19, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Today’s mood:
A parody of the children’s book If You Give a Mouse a Cookie that reads PLEASE GIVE A BITCH A BREAK I work very hard I'm trying my best I'm so tired all the goddamn time
April 25, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Tumblr’s high holiday.
A kids birthday party style invitation with a cartoon unicorn dabbing. You Are Invited To The ASSASSINATION OF JULUS CAESAR!! When? 15 March 44 BC Where? Curia of Pompey of the Theatre of Pompey, Rome Theme? Assassination by stabbing Don't forget your knife 🤫😇 From https://wordfather.tumblr.com/
March 1, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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February 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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February 7, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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My Rook is a total smokeshow.
Portrait of a video game character A brown skinned elf woman with full lips, exquisite winged eyeliner, tattoos on her forehead and arms and blue leather armor with a large gold medallion. Full body portrait of a video game character. A brown-skinned elf woman with a tattoos on her forehead arms and thigh. She is wearing a blue leather and cloth chest piece with a gold pauldrons that leaves her mid-drift bare, brown short-shorts and gold bracers and greaves. Her hands are on her hips and she is smirking at the camera.
November 6, 2024 at 2:50 AM
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I chuckled and saved this meme back in February. I regret to inform you that the answer is still “yes”. Someone casually asks “have you heard of BG3?” and I get a manic gleam in my eye as I desperately try to act normal.
Meme format of an anime man gesturing at a butterfly. The butterfly is labeled Baldur’s Gate 3, the man is labeled My ADHD Ass and the text at the bottom says Is This My New Persinality?
October 3, 2024 at 8:16 PM
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It's no six-digit ICQ number, though.
Graphic showing That Darn Jess was user number 321,107.
September 16, 2024 at 11:04 PM
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Go into your photo roll or whatever and post the first image that makes you laugh literally out loud
Garak from Star Trek: DS9 with his mouth open as if speaking animatedly, with white text reading, “weird hill to die on but at least you’re dead.”
July 2, 2024 at 3:35 PM