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calamity jenn. @shehulking.bsky.social · Nov 16

Hi! I’m Jenn.

I’m mid-30s, live in London, and worked book retail for 16 years and these days I work customer support for book retail.

I’m aro/ace, I’ve a fun range of mental health problems and my favourite hobbies include napping and tea.

I’m terminally online and this isn’t my first rodeo.

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calamity jenn. @shehulking.bsky.social · 6h

Ugh, my period has shown up earlier than I was expecting, which explains much, but also, ugh

calamity jenn. @shehulking.bsky.social · 16h

I’m having a lot of fun!

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Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 1d

You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't

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calamity jenn. @shehulking.bsky.social · 17h

It’s not spooky books month if I’m not reading one by Stephen Graham Jones

calamity jenn. @shehulking.bsky.social · 17h

I think he’s probably right, most of M&S food is delicious and I have enjoyed their flapjacks, yes!

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Clare Clarke @clareclarke.bsky.social · 21h

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calamity jenn. @shehulking.bsky.social · 20h

Still at work and now looking up the weather in a customer's area on the 3rd of the month to prove they're lying about the delivery

calamity jenn. @shehulking.bsky.social · 22h

It went on for a surprisingly long amount of time because they believed the problem was a lack of imagination on our side and we could do it if we WANTED because, again, AI said we could.

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calamity jenn. @shehulking.bsky.social · 22h

Someone contacted us the other day because AI had told them that we would publish their book. We explained we're not a publisher. They were furious because AI had told them we'd do it. We explained we literally can't. They asked us to check with management because AI said we could do this.

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calamity jenn. @shehulking.bsky.social · 22h

I can DM you if you'd like, it's very judgy of me

calamity jenn. @shehulking.bsky.social · 1d

Yeppppp. I’ve learned my lesson as I haven’t particularly enjoyed most of the fancy edition books so I’ll read it on kindle or as a standard edition and then decide if I want to track down a special one. I’ve only got space for books I truly love!!

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 1d

The veneration of Books As Objects misses the point entirely. If you're reading a book, turn the corners down, break the spine, spill soup on it. It's your book, go nuts. A pristine, unread book is a tragedy in a way that a beloved, much-read book that looks like the dog's been at it could never be.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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calamity jenn. @shehulking.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, as someone working in book retail I spend most of my days dealing with people angry and/or upset about various aspects of these fancy editions they're not going to read, and it's making me quite tired.

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calamity jenn. @shehulking.bsky.social · 1d

Lol I can DM you if you like

calamity jenn. @shehulking.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe my current book opinion is that this thing where books are being purchased as purely decorative objects that will never be read is not new, but they're still made of paper and thus it's very hard to have one that looks untouched by human hand, and also, it's sad they'll never ever be read

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calamity jenn. @shehulking.bsky.social · 1d

I actually can’t put my most snobby literary opinion because I don’t want to get yelled at by the internet or very possibly insult some of you 🤐

calamity jenn. @shehulking.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t like Kerouac as a person or his subject matter but the energy in his writing is incredible

People who don’t know where Emily Brontë got Wuthering Heights from have never read melodramatic self-insert fanfiction from a teenage (probably) girl

Dickens can’t punctuate properly

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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calamity jenn. @shehulking.bsky.social · 1d

Ohhh, well, that’s a handy informative coincidence!

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calamity jenn. @shehulking.bsky.social · 1d

Anyway I’m at 87%, I can skim the rest

calamity jenn. @shehulking.bsky.social · 1d

Okay spit is not my thing so that doesn’t help but the journey from “I don’t know how up touch you” to “tip your head back so I can spit in your mouth” was not very far at all and I’m being prudish and disapproving.

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calamity jenn. @shehulking.bsky.social · 1d

I wasn’t particularly enjoying this gently supernatural romance novel I’m reading on kindle unlimited but I’m nearly done. But the male protagonist has gone from “can we take this slow as I’ve only been with 2 women and I want to be good” to spitting in her mouth the first time they shag.

calamity jenn. @shehulking.bsky.social · 1d

💜💜💜

calamity jenn. @shehulking.bsky.social · 1d

I remember mine, and my grandparents’ from like 20 years ago, and I bet with a little time I could remember my childhood best friend’s.

calamity jenn. @shehulking.bsky.social · 1d

Okay I’ll leave you all in peace I just like cool shit

calamity jenn. @shehulking.bsky.social · 1d

These are like, actual paintings that would cost you thousands but they are cool