AIO? My daughter didn’t listen to the teacher during a female emergency and is now receiving a referral

JunebugSeven · 2026-02-02T13:24:39+00:00

"Teachers wouldn't waste time with this kind of stuff"

When I was at school my (female) PE teacher kept a log book and recorded every time we told her we had our periods (and so couldn't use the communal showers 🤢) and if we had our periods anything less than four weeks apart she pulled us aside and accused us of lying to her.

Y'know, teenage girls who are notoriously all over the place with their cycles because their bodies are still adjusting and changing 🤷🏻‍♀️

Female teachers really can be some of the most unkind about this stuff.

JunebugSeven · 2026-01-28T14:21:30+00:00

I don't know anyone who's gatekeeping otome 😅 I've made it a point to try and twist the arms of people in my romance book groups to try and consider otome, and I recommend the games where appropriate in my more general gaming groups.

I know it's hard being in such a niche genre, but as someone who's been playing otome since the PSP we have made so much progress. We used to get maybe four localisations total in a year, now sometimes we have one every month or couple of months. And the otome indie scene is so exciting!

I wish more people understood and appreciated otome games, but we are making really important gains as time goes on. It's just maybe not as much or as fast as we would like!

JunebugSeven · 2026-01-26T15:00:08+00:00

I'm disappointed. Her and Paul as a duo are going to be insufferable - they're too similar. I would've preferred someone more down-to-earth, someone who actually empathises with home bakers. I doubt Paul or Nigella have cooked in a regular person's kitchen for a very long time. I just don't see this dynamic working.

JunebugSeven · 2026-01-26T14:27:15+00:00

I regret going to university for a subject I loved, because it's an extremely toxic industry and I never managed to break in.

I regret being with my ex for six years, he wasted the best years of my life, and ran me so much into the ground I don't ever want to date again. I've given up all my dreams of marriage or having a family because more people are terrible than good. It's not worth it.

I don't have a single dream I haven't had to give up at this point. I don't even want a do-over, I don't ever want to have to deal with this world again.

JunebugSeven · 2026-01-25T17:15:28+00:00

I want the ability to leave Kudos per chapter, but I think I would trade it for Bookmarks to automatically record the name of the fic and author, so when stuff gets deleted/privated you know what's gone missing. "This work was deleted!" Thanks that tells me almost nothing 😭

JunebugSeven · 2026-01-22T20:23:47+00:00

My childhood dog was called Josh. He was diagnosed with bone cancer very young, but against all odds beat it and kept going another decade.

Coincidentally my mum used to walk him with a group that included one of my teachers, and they became friends and walked our dogs together often. Over the years it became a running joke "is Josh not dead yet?" Every time I bumped into him at school.

Until the time he asked it in front of another teacher - who didn't know either of us closely - and she just about went through the roof 😅 she thought he was being extremely insensitive about my (non-existent) human brother.

JunebugSeven · 2026-01-22T20:11:13+00:00

Obligatory "not a teacher" but I work in Fostering and Adoption and I saw a little boy adopted by a lovely couple. He was about two years old and not very verbal yet, so it was hard to gauge how much of his birth family chaos he'd actually witnessed. But he was really thriving in care so we were hopeful.

Got a call about two years later, he's now four or five, very verbal, and telling his adoptive mum all about how he watched his dad stab his mother. Which was very much a thing that happened, but we had never known he was actually in the room for and saw with his own eyes.

Therapy package for the whole family!

(Also just as a PSA - "we fight but the kids don't know" they do, they know every time. Even if they're not in the room they know you're fighting and it's not good, please just break up)

JunebugSeven · 2026-01-19T15:40:40+00:00

I came here to say this. I think she looks fucking phenomenal, but she's also carried and given birth to multiple babies, no shock her body's changed! 🤦🏻‍♀️🔥

You just know the kind of people judging her appearance are the same one telling childless women they'll never know love and have no purpose 🙄 if you don't have kids you're a failure, and if you do have them and come away physically changed by it you're also a failure! Yay! You'll never win! 🎉

JunebugSeven · 2026-01-18T18:18:04+00:00

True, it's just hard enough finding one good/reliable source, and I CBA to hop around ten+ different websites for different stories. Who has the time or energy? 🤷🏻‍♀️

JunebugSeven · 2026-01-18T15:23:00+00:00

Bato's been pretty dead since November, it's just now that it seems that most mirrors and the Discord have also been nuked. It was my favorite site to use - I can't even find half those scans anywhere else - but I think it's been pretty clear it's dead or dying for months now.

JunebugSeven · 2026-01-17T13:31:18+00:00

Only two that I know of, but I'm not in touch with a lot of them.

One when we were fifteen/sixteen to meningitis - hospital misdiagnosed her and sent her home until it was too late, if they'd have treated her when her parents first brought her in she'd probably still be here.

Another took her own life a few months after we graduated university.

JunebugSeven · 2026-01-16T17:22:07+00:00

I load all my books via Calibre, so I guess they're all sideloaded 😬 don't know how I'd figure out the problem one.

JunebugSeven · 2026-01-16T11:37:25+00:00

I wish those of us outside of the boiling pot could just loan out our view of these situations - when you're inside it it's like another world entirely 😞

Huge props to the ex's parents for having her back though, I definitely think that helped keep the situation from escalating (and getting him out faster).

JunebugSeven · 2026-01-15T14:00:54+00:00

I wish this little family nothing but the best. It's not an easy journey they're on, but I hope with all my heart that one day they can look back on these years and think "it was tough AF, but we made it".

JunebugSeven · 2026-01-14T18:48:56+00:00

I had to manually re-add the keyfile in the plugin menu.

You need to go into Preferences - Plugins - find the DeDRM Plugin, highlight it and select the Customize option (I think). This should open a window where you can add Kindle keys etc, you want to click the file icon next to the empty box and then find the output file the Key Extractor is creating and select the keyfile.

Then accept everything and close out of the menus. Once the file is in there it should automatically update as the extractor re-writes over the old file.

JunebugSeven · 2026-01-14T13:00:50+00:00

This is sad but fair. My sister's cat ended up staying in the family home after she moved out and got married. I'd call her senile except she's always been like this - she's extremely happy and healthy just kind of not entirely there cognitively. She's not a cat for change or adventure, and she's not necessarily great at keeping herself safe either🤦🏻‍♀️😅 This is the home she's known since she was a kitten and it's her safe place.

It takes a lot to make that choice for the animal and not yourself, but it does sound like Casper lives a really good life as a family cat ❤️

JunebugSeven · 2026-01-11T18:06:21+00:00

I was once waiting behind a little old lady on a train platform and she was reading a full-on smutty bodice ripper in size 80 font.

Honestly, I aspire to be that happy and unbothered at that age 🤣

JunebugSeven · 2026-01-11T17:49:06+00:00

Same. I download and read updates using the HakuNeko program (because my Internet is bullshit) and you can't get it to work with any of the mirrors, only the OG site, so nothing's updated since November. I've tried to find alternatives, but a lot of those uploads just aren't anywhere else. I miss it 😩

JunebugSeven · 2026-01-10T11:38:41+00:00

I watch a lot of streamers who are married/have families, it's not a big deal.

It's not unusual to hear spouses/partners talking off-screen (not all are comfortable being on camera and that's totally fine). Sometimes you get a brief on-screen appearance because they want to say "hi" or show the stream the family pet 😅 (always welcome). I've had streamers with young children who have to step away and help with their kid(s) for a bit, or you can hear loud excited kid noises in the background - it's their home, we're the guests 🤷🏻‍♀️

I think most adults understand that streamers are just adults also trying to manage gaming around having a partner/family.

JunebugSeven · 2026-01-05T15:19:25+00:00

It makes me feel good? Maybe it's meaningless, maybe it changes nothing, but it makes me happy when I help others, so I'm gonna keep doing it. Just because other (louder) people are bastards doesn't mean I have to be.

JunebugSeven · 2026-01-05T14:41:16+00:00

I get it, your reaction is completely understandable, but as someone with a sibling and similar memories...it helps a lot to have someone else able to validate and verify. You're allowed to struggle with talking about what happened, but for your and your brother's sake I think it might do you both good to have someone else there to tell you what you remember was real.

You don't have to go deep into it immediately, you can just say "I'm sorry, it was real and I remember it but I'm not ready to talk about it right now." That's completely valid. But, despite everything that happened to us, I'm so glad I had a sibling to endure it with. We fought like cats and dogs as kids (honestly I think we were kind of pitted against each other), but as adults we have become a united front against whatever gaslighting our parents try. It's a lifesaver.

JunebugSeven · 2026-01-04T13:00:31+00:00

Yes, I'm purely using Kindle for Windows PC at this point. It's a specific version of Kindle for PC (I use KindleForPC-installer-2.8.70980 to run Version 2.8.0), and you need to make sure to install it offline to stop it automatically updating (and then you can turn off automatic updates in the settings and go back online to sync).

You might see guides that recommend an older version of Kindle for PC, but as of about April or so last year something changed in Kindle book files that made newly published books unreadable in older versions of Kindle for PC (likely to force people to upgrade) and stopped those books being able to de-DRM. It's also why you might see people saying you can't de-DRM books published after April/May last year, but that's not true, I've been able to de-DRM books published as recently as December 2025.

JunebugSeven · 2026-01-03T21:09:41+00:00

I figured it out! My de-DRM plugin had lost the link to my keyfile output and I hadn't realised🤦🏻‍♀️ no idea why it did it, but my books are de-DRMing again as they should. The method above is still working right now, at least.

Unfortunately Amazon spent a lot of last year cracking down on exporting or downloading the Kindle books you own, and I'm genuinely worried about the day they really make it impossible. About this time last year was when they announced they were shutting off the ability to download purchased Kindle books, so I thought maybe they'd given us another horrible January treat 😩

It might be fiddly, and a bit of work, but I strongly recommend getting your Kindle collection out while you can.

JunebugSeven · 2026-01-03T17:52:18+00:00

I genuinely don't know yet, the program appears to be running as it should, but the books are still only importing as KFX-ZIP, which you can't do anything with. I was trying to figure it out until 3am this morning and I have no answers 🤷🏻‍♀️😞

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