I Am Pleased To Announce

Katherine Coates
Slackjaw
Published in
3 min readJun 14, 2021
Cover art by author. Icon images from PNG Tree.

So followers, I am pleased to announce something. I know. Me. Did you know I was capable of announcing things while remaining so pleased about it? You see, I really want you guys to see it, but I don’t want you to know how much time I spent on it or that I am, in fact, really proud of it. I think it’s great, but it’s also just a dumb little thing I tried once and will never try again. Enjoy it while it lasts!

I am pleased to announce that if you want to see this thing I made, you can definitely come check it out now. With your eyes, please(d)! It’s really silly and super dumb, and you’d be super stupid to actually look at it. But if you do choose to look at it, you’ll see that I’m actually really talented in a way you never realized before — which would be pretty smart of you to notice.

If you know me, you know I get super anxious about sharing my stuff. It’s just something I deal with. For example, I’m pretty anxioused to announce it, I promise, but I also have never been more confident about anything in my life, hence why I’m so pleased. Either way, my heart is beating a normal amount, and I can’t make it stop.

I’d be really pleased if you tell me what you think about my announce, by the way! I love feedback, and I know I really need it :(. I’m excited to see what critiques you all can come up with for a thing that I’m positive has no discernible flaws! I don’t think it can be any better, but I also spent little to no time on it.

Thought I’d please myself and just give the announcement a shot just to see how it turned out. So go easy on me! I’m new to this. But I’m also good enough to be professional at this, so be careful with what you say. You never know — I could be your boss one day.

Yes, I am pleased with my announcement, but I’m still learning too. I’m an amateur! I’m a novice. I’m a wittle baby pooping up wittle baby content. Wah, wah, wah! Fine. I’m not a baby. I’m actually really old (22).

Gosh, if this announcement I’m pleased by even entered your UNIVERSE, I’d be honored. I’m a big fat nothing compared to you. In fact, I’m looking at your announce right now, and I love it. Hey, you’re great at this! Oops, just realized I was actually still looking at my announce…um, I think it’s bad now!

If it were up to me, I’d absolutely keep this dumb pleasing announcement to myself. But sigh, unfortunately, they’re making me. And by “they,” I mean my hands. They’re pretty opinionated, and as a major source of my income (my side hustle is hand modeling), I have to just listen to what they say. Gosh, they’re loud!

I’m pleased to announce that this announcement has a link. So, I guess…if you really want to…it’d please me if you would click on the link down below. I know. Even the link is bad. “WWW”? What does that even stand for? So stupid! I even tried to change it to “BBB” for “bad bad bad,” but the government liked it so much, they bought the subdomain from me for twice the price of the national debt. I know. I’m practically a cop!

I’m pleased to announce that this announcement can be read, so go ahead and read it. Yikes. You can tell it’s totally plagiarized right? I know, I’m the worst. Yeah, I actually copied it from myself in a former life. Yeah, whatever artistic icon you’re thinking of. That was me. When I published this the first time, it actually led to a wonderful life, filled with hot wife, sweet kids, and a bunch of awards and gifted chickens, but looking back, it was missing a few commas, so here’s Dumb Thing 2.0, I guess.

So, here it is: I’m pleased to announce I wrote a new post for my blog!

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Katherine Coates
Slackjaw

Katherine Coates is a writer, producer, and comedian in Chicago (the one in Illinois).