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Sean Cliver

@seancliver.bsky.social
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Artist, writer, half-ass human, and co-owner of StrangeLove Skateboards.

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Sean Cliver @seancliver.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It’s hot. The world’s on fire. Seismically breaking apart in places. So, what better way to celebrate the end as we know it than by buying a brand new useless wooden toy, aka skateboard? This quantum exploration into time travel and violence will be available tomorrow on StrangeloveSkateboards.com
A skateboard graphic depicting a grouping of apes à la 2001: A Space Odyssey confronting a time traveling pair of modem day humans who bear an uncanny resemblance to the gun-toting McCloskey couple.
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Sean Cliver @seancliver.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Truck stop skateboard porn. Sure makes you wonder, doesn’t it? New fun-size printed matter available now.
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Disposable Undressed / Zine
Compiled and Edited by Sean Cliver Dimensions: 6.625.5 x 10.25 (56 pages) Perfect Bound Full-Color Everything Published by The Skateboard Museum Product Description: Slowly but surely we're stepping o...
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.
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Sean Cliver @seancliver.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Still using this place wrong, but how more right could I be offering a 50% discount off all products (except those listed under the ARCHIVE tab) using the discount code SUMMER (in all caps) at checkout? So go ahead, bang your buck extra hard at StrangeLoveSkateboards.com.
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StrangeLove Skateboards
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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Your bad art is better than AI slop.
four frame comic. first frame shows a typical AI poster that says : All chatgpt flyers look the same, especially with this font! the text above it reads : I won't go to your event if the poster was made by AI. second frame shows a still frame from a Hank Green youtube video. text above reads : I won't read your post or email and I won't watch your video if they were made with AI. third frame shows an AI restaurant poster of burgers and chicken in a window. text reads : I won't patronize your shop  or restaurant if it is advertised with AI. last frame shows an MS paint window with badly written : Your bad art is better than AI slop. text reads : if you can't take the time or make the effort to interact with me yourself, then why should I do it?
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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
masterpiece www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Johnny Knoxville, America’s God of Mischief
What moves the star of “Jackass” to risk his life for our entertainment? A very serious investigation.
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Sean Cliver @seancliver.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
When was the last time you gave your credit card carte blanche to take it to the limit? Let it run free today on the freshly updated and ready to roll concrete pastures of strangeloveskateboards.com
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StrangeLove Skateboards
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Winston Tseng @winstontseng.com · 30/06/2026
Corporate America #1
Official advertisement promoting the America 250 celebrations in New York City
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Sean Cliver @seancliver.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Never imagined I’d be visually closing out a piece on the NYT, but there I am!
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Video: The Most Successful Documentary Series in History
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Sean Cliver @seancliver.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Celebrate America at 250 (plus) with the latest round of super-sized red, white, and blue at strangeloveskateboards.com.
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
they are on Threads fighting to the death over whether or not it is ableist for an author to use the word “scrying" (people might not know the definition!). how beautiful. people staring into their phones and getting so emotional over “scrying.” perhaps there really is magic in reflective surfaces!
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Sean Cliver @seancliver.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Satire can be a fickle schtick in a post-sarcasm world; or, the raw confusion of the skateboard graphic medium well done.
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oh shit… the elephant is still in the room
The Republican Kickturn Party was by far the dumbest idea I’ve ever had and the dumbest thing I’ve ever talked Sean into doing. The “RKP”—how I’ll reference the graphic going forward—was a response to...
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Sean Cliver @seancliver.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Today in competitive late stage capitalism and other baited clicks: We’re offering an early bird pre-sale package on the forthcoming REMASTERED (and self-published!) edition of Disposable: A History of Skateboard Art. Support print!
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Disposable / Early Bird Pre-Sale Package
Early Bird Pre-Sale Package! Exclusive Limited Time Offer Consisting Of... 1 Signed Hardcover Edition of Disposable: A History of Skateboard Art REMASTERED: Please read the product description below f...
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Sean Cliver @seancliver.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Do you enjoy skateboard art? Would you sooner spend 15,000 bucks on a vintage deck from 1985 than a down payment on a new car? If so, you may be interested in this…
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punk was cool (too bad you missed it)
To whom it may concern: Yes, it has been a rather long minute—or 175,433 to be somewhat more in the ballpark—since the last post went up. The reasons are many, none of them great, but it is what it is...
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Sean Cliver @seancliver.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
I’m well aware that I’m using this app wrong, much like all the others, but that’s no reason not to celebrate the end of the world as we know it with this lovingly hand-rendered vision of “Cthulhu on a Half-Skull.” Signed, numbered, and ready for apocalyptic presentation purposes.
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Sean Cliver / Cthulhu / Print
Artwork by Sean Cliver 9-color Screened Print on White Stock Dimensions: 10 x 30 Signed & Numbered Limited Edition of 50 Product Description: You can't keep a good demonic entity down. Cthulhu mak...
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Sean Cliver @seancliver.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Rabbit holes get a deserved stigma, but not all are bad. Some are actually enlightening in the historical sense, even if they are awkwardly tied to a holiday for tangentially promotional purposes. That said, why not take a slick trip down the StrangeLove burrow…
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a carnie christmas story; or, sean's slick soliloquy
Never before in the history of mankind has the magical holiday of Christmas been properly explained until now. But before getting to the obligatory promotional hand-off to Dave Carnie's latest cold cu...
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Sean Cliver @seancliver.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Have you ever been to The Castle in Ybor City, FL? Here’s your chance to get a fictitious souvenir in the classic Colby style.
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Sean Cliver / StrangeLove Tour / Print
Artwork by Sean Cliver 5-color Screened Print on White Stock Professionally screened by InHouse Media Dimensions: 14 x 22 Signed & Numbered Limited Edition of 50 Product Description: When the goin...
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Sean Cliver @seancliver.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Saturdays are for releases. Tomorrow, 24 January, it’s no holes barred as we explore the meaning of public domain in the legal, prurient, and nostalgic sense. So, if your idea of fun involves marketing toys to children with 95-odd year references, please come along and enjoy the silence.
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Sean Cliver @seancliver.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
How to use Bluesky wrong. But right. Yet still wrong. Or at least a wrong trying to be righted by the inclusion of these words. But at least the overall sentiment is in the right place amid all the wrongs currently being perpetrated.
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Sean Cliver @seancliver.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Hate to burst anyone’s bubble of enthusiasm, robotic or otherwise, but I’m primarily a purveyor of skateboards with the occasional linguistic trip, quip, or alliterative flip. For further enlightenment and/or disillusionment, please refer to: strangeloveskateboards.com
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Let me give you a thought experiment: Imagine not just a ban on qualified immunity for authority, but a reversal; a new legal framework, under which authority bears greater responsibility than civilians in matters involving force—as it should. www.the-reframe.com/absolute-imm...
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Absolute Immunity
Alignment with supremacy is a vile choice. Raising the natural costs for those who make that choice by putting first things first.
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Winston Tseng @winstontseng.com · 31/12/2025
year in review
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Sean Cliver @seancliver.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
At the end of every year I like to recap all the skateboards we produced through StrangeLove. This is that time. So, come along and enjoy, as I take you on a magical mystery tour of our production calendar and all the graphicky things we did in watermelon sugar.
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the 2025 year of wood in review
Whew. Can I utter that? Well, I just did. If 2025 was a marathon, let's just say I'm happy that we crossed the finish line. Okay, yeah, I know, we're not through the tape yet, but it's close enough fo...
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Sean Cliver @seancliver.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
The hour is drawing nigh, so get the maximum bang for your buck today on strangeloveskateboards.com where the code DISCOUNT at checkout will save you 25%. We are a small company with no corporate backing, so rest assured no billionaires will profit off your support. We’re all in this together.
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Sean Cliver @seancliver.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Are you a madman or simply an ad fan? Either way, here’s a Top 40 countdown of all 16 ads we placed this year in skateboard magazine. Yes, the printed ones. With ink. On paper. Off presses. Because physical matter matters.
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the twelve days of christmas
While I don't believe that heading is
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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.
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Sean Cliver @seancliver.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Curious about the intersection of skateboard graphics, social commentary, satire, and other visual things that make a disposable statement? Check out with this bit of printed matter in an increasingly digital age:
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Skateboard Americana / Zine
Words by Sean Cliver, Nick Halkias, Don Pendleton, and Ted Barrow Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.5 (36 pages) Perfect Bound! Full-Color Everything! Published by The Skateboard Museum! Product Description: The pe...
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Shoq 🌱 @shoq.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Good morning. Maybe it was Hegseth’s “Kill em all,” order, but I have realized that popular culture and radical conservatism has completely destroyed the culture i grew up in, and it’s just absurd that so many pretend it hasn’t. That monstrous man was made by TV, movies, …
“Great nations are not murdered; they die by suicide.”
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Incompetence will save us from full blown autocracy… probably
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Sean Cliver @seancliver.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Trip the tryptophan fantastic. Or, digest and destroy with this look back on a shoe that beat all legal odds: the Holiday 2012 Nike SB “Krampus” Dunk High. Words, a lot of them, but pictures, too, found here:
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gruss vom krampus; or, the making of a holiday tradition
‘Twas the year or so before December 2012 when my friend Nick Halkias finally emailed me with the question he’d long been hinting at but never previously managed to put into motion: Would I be interes...
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Sean Cliver @seancliver.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Amid all the heavy, how about something light and refreshing? No, I’m not feeling 7up, but I did have a couple of art shows in Japan and consumed a lot of fish (the latter which you will not read about at all… just trying to tie up the title with a neat and tidy bow):
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sayonara, soshite sakana o arigato
This comes way too long after the fact—and probably should've been posted in part before I even embarked on my trip to Japan back in October—but let's face the confusing facts: My woven word webs here...
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 13/11/2025
"You have at times seemed to question the very concept of a career. You told senior Barry Platowski, 'We are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.'"
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Your Services As Guidance Counselor Are No Longer Required, Mr. Vonnegut
Dear Mr. Vonnegut, As principal of Stephen R. Perry High School, it is with regret that I inform you that, after considerable reflection and numero...
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Sean Cliver @seancliver.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Tired of the This American Life Horror Show? Flip on over to the poppy li’l creature feature playing out this Halloween at StrangeLoveSkateboards.com
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Sean Cliver @seancliver.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
My body may be in Sunday, but my mind is back in Saturday where we just released all the new decks (with zines!), accompanying tees (and others!), the mysterious missing sticker pack (who knows!), and more. Find it all at StrangeLoveSkateboards.com
A screenprinted skateboard deck featuring vintage Americana salt and pepper shakers; one, the pepper, an upright porcelain rendition of Jackie Robinson with baseball bat; the other, a broken salt shaker in the form of a Klansman.
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Sean Cliver @seancliver.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
The full release this weekend includes a hypothetical “What if… ?” sliding door through time and space where @donpendleton.bsky.social was hired by Steve Rocco in 1992. Crazy? Not so much. Buy the ticket (deck) and take the dimensional ride (zine) this Saturday on StrangeLoveSkateboards.com.
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Sean Cliver @seancliver.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Keeping it all in context, this is the follow up ad for StrangeLove that ran in Thrasher. There was one step between this and the other, but I’m simply going one step beyond to avoid any unnecessary confusion. Still confused? Welcome to strangeloveskateboards.com where puzzlement is job one.
The KNOW HISTORY ad we placed in the latest issue of Thrasher magazine that probably has more words printed on it than any other they’ve run from a skateboard company since 1992, the majority of which pertains to an absurd executive decree from the White House calling for “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History”.
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Sean Cliver @seancliver.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Remember the early 90s in skateboarding? We certainly do and knew how much it meant to crack open the new issue of Thrasher and TransWorld to see the latest happenings in skateboarding. Social media has robbed us all of such anticipatory joys. Anyway, here’s a recent print ad or ours in social form:
A StrangeLove skateboards print ad whining about how the editor of Closer Skateboarding mag denied the previous ad we submitted when he had every right to do so. But we love a good historical jab and couldn’t resist having some fun, recalling the plucky ads run by Steve Rocco in the early 90s.
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Sean Cliver @seancliver.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Picture pages, picture pages. Time to get your crayons and your pencils. Does this ring your bell with a Pavlovian response? If so, ride the wormhole to…
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time to get your crayons and your pencils
Picture Pages, Picture Pages. Time to get your Picture Pages. Time to get your crayons and your pencils! Picture Pages, Picture Pages. Open up your Picture Pages. Time to let… uh. Hmm. Well... how abo...
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Sean Cliver @seancliver.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Since 2018 all strangeloveskateboards.com torso sheaths have been guaranteed rapture-ready garments in anticipation of The Day. Prepare thyself!
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Sean Cliver @seancliver.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
What once was “skate and destroy” is now “skate and escape.” Achieve spiritual enlightenment not by witchcraft but watercraft on strangeloveskateboards.com
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Jet Ski / 8.5 Deck
Artwork by Sean Cliver Manufactured at BBS Mfg. Hand-Screened at Screaming Squeegees Caveat: Be aware that blemishes and imperfections are an expected and accepted part of the screen-printing process....
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Sean Cliver @seancliver.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Look. It’s been pretty heavy lately with ignorance and dumb red-lining in severity. (Anyone else remember the old color-coded HSAS? Ah, sweet innocence…) So, come along and enjoy this tale of seafaring stupidity from a kinder, gentler, and simpler time of life in the US of A, circa 1991.
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the young man and the sea
Before diving into this anything but Ernest Hemingway-like tale, I should warn you, the reader, that this post addresses the hot topic of ignorance. I know, bear with me, we've all been put through th...
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Sean Cliver @seancliver.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
A little of this, a little of that; or, professionally schizophrenic by design, a brief if not slap-dash history of my pen and I.
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metamorpho and other tales to astonish
You know, it's always a crapshoot when it comes to these posts. I mean, in theory I know where they ultimately have to end, but generally only have a vague notion of how to start and practically no id...
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Sean Cliver @seancliver.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
New follower? One of the many tens? Join the resistance on board at strangeloveskateboards.com
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StrangeLove Skateboards
StrangeLove Skateboards
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Sean Cliver @seancliver.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Listened to the song “Hey Sarah Palin” tonight and instantly became nostalgic for such blissfully simpler times of American ignorance.
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Sean Cliver @seancliver.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
More like “Good night, America.”
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”
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Sean Cliver @seancliver.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Hello, Dali! Take a ride on the surreal side with this latest blacklight beauty.
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Max Murphy / Hello Dali / 8.5 Deck
Artwork by Sean Cliver  Manufactured at BBS Mfg.  Hand-Screened at Screaming Squeegees Caveat: Be aware that blemishes and imperfections are an expected and accepted part of the screen-printing proces...
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Sean Cliver @seancliver.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
All that can be stuck should be stuck; or, stick it to the man! All new adhesives now featuring clear vinyl (no space age polymers included).
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StrangeLove Pack #27 / Stickers
New Header Card One 3mm 5x9 Polyethylene Bag Two Staples 21 Adhesive Forms Note: All sales are final. Can't say that any simpler. Unless the product is defective in the manufacturing sense, we will no...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
It's become clear that this administration is just a protracted war on anybody who's read a book without pictures in it. It's a miracle we're all still getting up and going to work every morning. The psychological drain is the point, and I'm increasingly grateful to the people who are still decent.
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Sean Cliver @seancliver.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Did you know there are StrangeLove terms and conditions? I mean, there’s not but there are, and I don’t mean that in a passive-aggressive way. Or do I? Just the FUQS.
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just the fuqs
Hello. Here at StrangeLove we receive a lot of questions, oftentimes as many up to two-to-three a month. As much as we'd like to personally respond to each and every one it's simply not possible. Why,...
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