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[Scene: Mother chasing small, cackling child]

Mother: Joestar! JOESTAR! Get back here!

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[Scene: Two tomboyish girls in their early teens, looking at rings]

Girl 1: Look at this ring, it's like a Wonder Woman ring!

Girl 2: If it was a Wonder Woman ring, it would have a "W." That ring has a "V."

Girl 1: Maybe it's a German Wonder Woman ring. Like . . . Vonder Voman.

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[Scene: Woman in dressing room, talking on phone]

Woman: Mhmmm. Well, if you want your daughter in a child beauty pageant, then she should join [program name], which pairs the girls up with previous Miss [my state] for mentorship on performing. Mhm. Well, it's a lot more inclusive now in terms of body types, which is good. Mhm. They've also changed some of the competitions, too. They don't do the swimsuit contest anymore. It's not everyone's cup of tea.

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[Scene: Different mother chasing different small child]

Mother: Shadow! Put that down!

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[Scene: Two hijabi girls, early twenties, looking at necklaces]

Girl 1: That's a cool looking necklace. I like the crosses, but, y'know . . . it would be weird.

Girl 2: Why don't we get any cool symbols?

Girl 1: I guess we have the star and crescent. They make crescent necklaces.

[Pause]

Girl 2: But how do you know if a necklace is like, a *crescent,* and not just a moon?

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[Scene: Little girl, three or four, running in and out of a dressing room while her father tries on jeans]

Preschooler: Lalalalalala

Father: Why don't you stay outside with mom? Why don't you go to mom?

Preschooler: Lalalalala

Father: Go outside and wait with mommy so I can change . . .

[The little girl goes outside and mills around in the waiting area. Her mother is maybe twenty feet away. She walks to her mother, then darts back inside the dressing room]

Preschooler: Daddy! I can see a PENIS!!

Father: GO OUTSIDE AND WAIT WITH MOMMY.

While not directly MJ-related, I thought I'd share this article here. I think it's relevant to conversations about influential artists getting away with abuse, the complicity of celebrity hangers-on, and the limitations of assuming a lack of prosecution means innocence. Oh, and a general content warning: this article discusses violence against women in some detail.

Barbara Zhan Crane went missing in Willits, California, on May 13th, 2020. #UP150119 was discovered dead in San Fancisco on May 18th, 2025. There are some details in this case that make me wonder if there is a match between the two.

	Sex	Race	Age	Weight	Height	Hair Color	Eye Color
Barbara Zhan Crane	Female	White	48 when missing, 53 in 2025	125-135 lbs	5'4"	Red	Brown
#UP150119	Female	White	40-60	107 lbs	5'4" (measured)	Red/Auburn	Green

There are some possible similarities between tattoos Crane had and those found on #UP150119. Crane was described as having "image of rose, left ankle; dragon image, left shoulder; multiple others," while #UP150119 is described as having the following tattoos:

>Left Arm: oriental style dragon tattoo wrapping around arm w/head left front shoulder
Left wrist: Flowers
Left and right inner wrist: Trident
Back: large, ribcage like, thick lined, with eyes at each shoulder
Back, lower: Small filigree, dark lined
Right stomach: Small black star
Right forearm: Cursive text “Self Care you always have your breath Pray Meditate Laugh”
Left lower leg: Angel in red dress, with halo and crescent moon above head, standing on eight ball
Left elbow: Black Flower
Right upper arm: Black Octopus like animal

While the tattoos don't line up perfectly, the dragon tattoo on the left arm/shoulder stands out to me as a distinctive similarity, and while the text tattoo on #UP150119 is described as on the "right forearm," Crane did apparently have a script tattoo on her right upper arm, per The Charley Project. Furthermore, both Jane Doe and Crane seemed to have nose piercings.

I would argue that there is reason to believe that Crane initially left her home voluntarily, and did not necessarily pass away immediately after her date of last contact. Crane had a history of substance abuse issues, and had previously experienced homelessness. Shortly before going missing, she had gathered all of her belongings up to take with her, except for her dogs, which she left with her roommate. She was last seen with a man in a pickup truck whom she seemed to know.

This makes me think that she was simply planning to go somewhere else, and that something happened to her after she had left- but not necessarily immediately, given her history of "dropping out of sight for a month or two." In the confusion and isolation of the initial 2020 lockdown, her customary absences may have extended into a longer absence, and if she relapsed in isolation, then perhaps after the lockdown ended, she was still not in a position to re-establish contact. If you accept this possibility that she survived for an extended period after going missing, then the additional tattoos could also be explained as tattoos acquired during the five-year missing period.

Source:

https://charleyproject.org/case/barbara-zhan-crane

https://unidentified-awareness.fandom.com/wiki/San_Francisco_Jane_Doe_(2025)

Ok, so I kinda dislike how parents will use the phrase "sugared up" to refer to kids acting crazy, or blame kids running amok at birthday parties and the like on the fact that they had a cupcake (or two, or ten) half an hour prior.

All of this seems to be rooted in the idea that sweet, sugary foods give kids too much energy, because of a basic misunderstanding of what "the body uses sugar to make energy" actually means. If you're a healthy and non-diabetic person, your pancreas controls the uptake of glucose into your body using insulin, to keep it within a stable range. If anything, eating a bunch of rich food might make you a little sleepy because of all the digesting you're doing, but you shouldn't be having marked peaks and crashes based on the amount of food you eat. That's a medical symptom, not a childish quirk.

I know this requires a basic level of biology knowledge, but I feel like it should be fairly apparent to anyone who's ever known a diabetic (which is a lot of people) that the idea of a "sugar rush" doesn't actually make a whole lot of sense. Kids who just had juice and cake are probably running around like maniacs because they're at a party, not because of what they did or didn't eat. If you gave them pizza they'd probably be acting the same way.

There are plenty of scientific studies that have been done on this subject confirming that "sugar rushes" are not a real thing. Here's a study from 2019 indicating no correlation between sugar consumption and elevated mood. There's also a study from 1995 which indicates a strong placebo effect when it comes to the perception of kids as being "sugared up." In that study, two groups of boys aged 5-7 were given a very sweet drink, while supervised by their mothers. One group was told the drink had sugar in it, the other group was told it was a zero-calorie sweetener. The mothers then played with their sons and were asked to rate their level of hyperactivity. The sugar group was rated as significantly more hyper than the non-sugar group. But the kicker was that both groups were given a zero-calorie sweetener, indicating that the sugar group was only seen as more hyper because the mothers expected sugar to make their sons act up.

Another thing to consider is that maybe your kid is bouncing off the walls because they drank a bunch of caffeine in the soda they've been drinking? Most canned soda contains around 30-50 mgs of caffeine per can, while an 8oz cup of coffee is around 80-100 mgs of caffeine. So if your kid slammed four cans of Dr. Pepper and is now climbing the walls, it's probably because they just drank the equivalent of two cups of coffee, not because of the sugar content in the drinks.