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Struggling to support JK Rowling…

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NitroNine · 01/08/2023 01:10

…because what sort of actual monster wants coffee [& walnut] cake for their birthday cake?

She even boasted about this [book-themed] bakery beastliness on Twitter.

It was surprise!cake, but clearly not in a Cake Roulette sort of surprise!cake way. Am shaken to my very core & clearing my diary for mad angry crying & performative packing-up of Potterphenalia.

I’m just not sure how to cope with this disturbance to the magical world. I mean, coffee cake. <shakes head sadly>

However, while I consider my position, I’m willing to be gracious & offer JKR birthday wishes as well as Superior Cake. It’s not as if people just have varying tastes & opinions or anything, after all, right? Oh & happy birthday to Harry Potter, too, who obviously doesn’t need to attend the cake reeducation course, because of course he agrees with me.

(Little late - courtesy of internet issues - & indeed little/lot silly. Not inspired by any specific individual, but rather the reflection even now, as support for JKR is trending there are people throwing wobblies because she is a real person with thoughts & feelings & opinions she expresses. And she doesn’t respond to demands/threats/tantrums so people make ridiculous claims about what the characters she wrote [would] think…)

https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1686024491086798848?s=46&t=MY1IHKVfeDY_1v4HEEVDfA

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EpicChaos · 03/08/2023 00:51

" IcakethereforeIam

Oh Epic! 😲 I hope it's just temporary
You definitely should sue.

Many apologies for having to split my replies over two posts, for some reason, after i added emotes to the last post, it wouldn't respond to key strokes.
Anyhoo, thank you for your kind words, i shall be suing and have taken the liberty of taking a screen shot of your post to pass on along with Beetles post.
Thank you both, for your very kind support at this very sad time.
Thank you also for the pic of the emergency quokka and other furry friends, i found them very helpful, along with my support teddy and colouring book.

Sadly, no, as far as i know, it's a permanent thing. My sugar intake has to be strictly measured. I am allowed some but preferably as little possible, with an absolute maximum of 25 grams per day. A slice of proper cake would just be too much, i'm very sorry to say.
My calorie count is supposed to be about 2000 per day but luckily for me, i'm nowhere near being overweight, so i have a bit of leeway with that. My blood pressure has to be done twice daily and my 'steps ' all have to be counted, noted and reported.
Oh what fun!
However, on the bright side, i have found some sugar free dark choccy digestives and some low calorie, low sugar cakes but they're not the same.
Still it could be worse but for the purposes of suing the OP, nothing on this earth could ever be any worse than being banned from a nice big slab of full sugar cake!
I'm relying on you ladies of the board, to eat a slice for me at every occasion. Many thanks in advance. xxx

EpicChaos · 03/08/2023 00:23

Boiledbeetle · 02/08/2023 07:39

To be fair though Epic, there was nothing in the thread title to warn you of the cakey contents contained within! So it's not your fault you got sucked into a cake thread. It was false thread advertising, you should sue

Yes, you are absolutely spot on there @Boiledbeetle the title was misleading, wasn't it? By the time i realised what the true content of the thread was, it was too late to look away.
I've cried buckets today - every time the thought of this thread pops into mind, the tears start all over again. I've never been so traumatised.
I'm going to screen shot the OP's and your post, as well as @IcakethereforeIam's post too, though bearing in my mind that her name contains that 4 letter word, i'm traumatised all over again but i will need the screen shots to hand to a solicitor, in case the OP has the thread removed.
😥😥😥

ArabellaScott · 02/08/2023 20:59

Sorry:

CHERYESCHER

ArabellaScott · 02/08/2023 19:31

SIRYESSIR

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Chersfrozenface · 02/08/2023 19:20

Keeper Scott, would you like to be in charge of the Scottish water vole breeding programme? FYI they often have darker fur than their Southern cousins, often black.

Struggling to support JK Rowling…
Struggling to support JK Rowling…
ArabellaScott · 02/08/2023 19:03

Boiledbeetle · 02/08/2023 18:47

You do realise it's in addition to your thread poster job here don't you? You can't just leave us to go stroke furry things

Said the bishop to the actress.

Boiledbeetle · 02/08/2023 18:47

ArabellaScott · 02/08/2023 18:45

Ì GOT THE JOB!!!

You do realise it's in addition to your thread poster job here don't you? You can't just leave us to go stroke furry things

Boiledbeetle · 02/08/2023 18:46

I was going to say id take the ermines in honour of the pub I spent many many hours in way back in the day, but having just looked its been renamed after the brook that swallowed my sister's flip flops in 1975 so I withdraw my offer.

ArabellaScott · 02/08/2023 18:45

Ì GOT THE JOB!!!

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Chersfrozenface · 02/08/2023 18:39

I'm afraid the mustelids will need their own separate park. Preferably many miles away and with excellent security.

So no need for me to be concerned about the safety of my collection or for Cute Animal Keeper Scott to worry about ferrets.

Boiledbeetle · 02/08/2023 18:35

You know if JKR ever stumbles upon this thread it's just going to confirm to her the fact that we are all raving bonkers!

IcakethereforeIam · 02/08/2023 18:22

And maybe some cute invertebrates.

Agree about honey badgers.

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BernardBlacksMolluscs · 02/08/2023 18:20

IcakethereforeIam · 02/08/2023 18:19

Badgers? American and European.

but not honey

despite the name those are some nasty badgers

IcakethereforeIam · 02/08/2023 18:19

Badgers? American and European.

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BernardBlacksMolluscs · 02/08/2023 18:16

Dear Chers

May I suggest a salt water lake for the convenience of sea otters to link their little arms together and lie on their backs holding food in their cute little pawsies?

Yours in anticipated appreciation of your work
B Black

Chersfrozenface · 02/08/2023 17:53

@IcakethereforeIam thank you for the emergency quokka and @AlisonDonut merci for the reassuring news about the colour of the neighbourhood écureuils.

I feel much better now.

ArabellaScott · 02/08/2023 17:52

Dear Chers

I can wrestle a hamster with one arm tied behind my back. Those furry buggers don't scare me one bit.

I am wary of ferrets, however.

Yours

A Scott

Chersfrozenface · 02/08/2023 17:46

Dear A Scott

Thank you for your application. I shall give it my fullest consideration.

When I receive confirmation of my win, I will contact you again with a view to possibly progressing the onboarding process.

As a first step, could you tell me how you would handle working with European hamsters? Cute AF but very bitey and will happily fight a large dog or small adult human.

Yours etc.
Chers F Face

AlisonDonut · 02/08/2023 17:44

Chersfrozenface · 02/08/2023 15:49

May I just say, it's lovely that you're so kind to squirrels. Although if they're grey, that's controversial too.

sigh Why is nothing uncomplicated?

goes off to watch videos of beavers and marmottes holding treats with their little hands so they can nibble them

Oh no they are red - we are in France. So all autumn they are in and out of the garden stealing food. The wood backs onto our garden so we get all sorts here.

I picked mushrooms [cepes] the size of dinner plates last year in there.

ArabellaScott · 02/08/2023 17:40

Oh, buggrit. Fell for the cute animal trap again.

RealFeminist · 02/08/2023 17:39

Chersfrozenface · 02/08/2023 16:18

Quokkas, with their permanently smiling faces and their cubic poo.

All the ground squirrels.

Hyraxes.

Cavies and capybaras.

Water voles.

When I win the lottery, I'm going to open a zoo consisting entirely of cute animals such as the above. It will be heaven, and also extremely popular.

Dear Chers or Madam

This is my application to work in your Cute Zoo.

I am good at appreciation and brushing.

Please find attached my CV

Thanks

A Scott

Sidaway · 02/08/2023 17:22

Y'all a bunch of coffee-and-walnut-phobic bigots!!!
Coffee-and-walnut rights are cake rights!
Educate yourselves and do better!

Boiledbeetle · 02/08/2023 17:11

IwantToRetire · 02/08/2023 17:04

Guilt by association!

You are right of course. She was in the vicinity of the cake, and may even have acknowledged it, therefore she is guilty.

Sigh.

She may have to travel like Boadicea is long knives attached to the wheels of her vehicle so that she can preserve her innocent through lack of close proximity.

There must be a suitable castle dungeon somewhere in Scotland she can be locked in to protect herself from contamination of association. Stick her in there with a typewriter and a ream of paper, maybe a spare ribbon for the typewriter!

WildUnchartedWaters · 02/08/2023 17:06

NitroNine · 01/08/2023 01:10

…because what sort of actual monster wants coffee [& walnut] cake for their birthday cake?

She even boasted about this [book-themed] bakery beastliness on Twitter.

It was surprise!cake, but clearly not in a Cake Roulette sort of surprise!cake way. Am shaken to my very core & clearing my diary for mad angry crying & performative packing-up of Potterphenalia.

I’m just not sure how to cope with this disturbance to the magical world. I mean, coffee cake. <shakes head sadly>

However, while I consider my position, I’m willing to be gracious & offer JKR birthday wishes as well as Superior Cake. It’s not as if people just have varying tastes & opinions or anything, after all, right? Oh & happy birthday to Harry Potter, too, who obviously doesn’t need to attend the cake reeducation course, because of course he agrees with me.

(Little late - courtesy of internet issues - & indeed little/lot silly. Not inspired by any specific individual, but rather the reflection even now, as support for JKR is trending there are people throwing wobblies because she is a real person with thoughts & feelings & opinions she expresses. And she doesn’t respond to demands/threats/tantrums so people make ridiculous claims about what the characters she wrote [would] think…)

I dont agree with the whole relating to character, but regardless of her thoughts and feelings she has a responsibility to her franchise. Many professions would be dismissed for doing what she did.

I feel sad for her as shes now completely remove from the world she created and I dont imagine adoring on twitter fills that hole.

Coffee is manky though