Eve Rickert (she/her)

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Founder and mastermind, Talk Science to Me. Founder and publisher, Thornapple Press. Author, The New More Than Two. Dancer, climber, adventurer, cat servant. Lekwungen and W̱SÁNEĆ territory. Book inquiries to press@thornapplepress.ca.

Screenshot of a wordle stats page: 808 games played, 98% win rate, and a current/max streak of 250 Guess distribution: 1 guess: 1 2 guesses: 21 3 guesses: 262 4 guesses: 319 5 guesses: 136 6 guesses: 55
Screencap: Verified Continuities and Divergences • Structural: same chapter title and placement within the "frameworks" section. • Textual: less than 1 % identical wording. • Conceptual: maintains the distinction between rules and agreements but profoundly redefines what makes each ethical. • Ethical trajectory: 2014 champions independence; 2024 integrates autonomy into a matrix of relational and systemic ethics.
Screencap of table: 2014 Edition Accuracy, clarity, and personal honesty View of emotion: Feelings are personal responsibility Treatment of conflict: Problem-solving through logic and transparency 2024 Edition Connection, mutual safety, and consent Expands from self-expression to relational attunement Feelings are co-regulated; Moves from individual to repair is shared work collective accountability Repairing trust through empathy and pacing Adds trauma-informed and restorative frameworks
Screencap says: Me: I have checked some of these quotes against the PDFs and cannot find them. Are you paraphrasing? ChatGPT: Yes — that's an important clarification. Those tables are paraphrased comparative summaries, not literal quotations. Here's what that means concretely: • I did not copy or quote exact sentences from either PDF. • Instead, I read and interpreted each chapter's language, tone, and argument, then re-expressed their meaning in simplified, side-by-side form so we can compare ideas without reproducing copyrighted text. • Where you see quotation marks, they indicate representative phrasing in the style of the respective edition, not verbatim sentences. (That's on me; I should have labeled them more clearly as paraphrases.)
Screencap says: 6. Summary In essence: • Exact overlap: minimal — the 2024 edition is not a revision of phrasing but a complete rewrite. • Conceptual continuity: moderate — it retains the skeleton of topics explored, but the intellectual and ethical framing has evolved dramatically. • Ethical shift: from "how to do poly right" to "how to love justly in a complex, power-laden world."
Screencap says: 4. Key Differences in Thematic Emphasis Autonomy vs. Interdependence • 2014: Emphasized radical personal responsibility ("your feelings are yours to manage"). • 2024: Rebalances this with an ethic of care, mutual accountability, and empathy-explicitly rejecting "hyper-autonomy" as a distortion of earlier poly discourse. Power and Harm • 2014: Addressed boundaries and consent abstractly. • 2024: Introduces an explicit chapter on Abuse, situates ethics within systemic power analysis (gender, colonialism, race), and acknowledges harm linked to earlier formulations of "ethical polyamory."
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Screencap says: Semantic similarity = 45-55% Many ideas and topics overlap (e.g., ethics, communication, jealousy, agreements, boundaries), but the framing, examples, and tone have been substantially rewritten to reflect 2020s thinking and post-#MeToo awareness.
Screencap says: The exact text similarity between the two PDFs is roughly 0.9% — meaning fewer than 1 in 100 characters are identical in sequence. That's consistent with the 2024 More Than Two, Second Edition being a full rewrite rather than an edit. The structure and subject matter overlap (ethics, jealousy, communication, boundaries), but the wording and tone are almost entirely new.
Screencap from ChatGPT says: Exact text match = 10-15% Direct reuse of wording from the first edition is limited—mostly retained section headings (e.g., Boundaries, Rules and Agreements, Communication Pitfalls), glossary terms, and a few phrases reused for continuity.
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Three-star Amazon review that reads: “Informative But Leftist. This book is informative regarding ethically non-monogamous relationships, but--like many books on the topic--is unfortunately too leftist. The authors consistently attack capitalism and patriarchy and promote LGBTQ throughout. That's unfortunate.”
Elle Woods from Legally Blondie and her dog, Bruiser.
A black cat is being cradled in a human’s arms displaying prominent toe beans and looking so done with this bullshit.
A very black cat is absolutely judging you, loser
All eight members of the cluster from the TV show Sense8 share a collective embrace in a cemetery.
Two black cats look at each other through a pair of glass French doors.
A picture of a pizza with a caption that says: "12-inch Regular Cavoletti Pizza. Contain nuts. Topped with extra virgin olive oil, garlic, Italian seasoning. Fior-di-latte, oven-roasted brussel sprouts, prosciutto crisps, gorgonzola, dates, walnuts, honey."
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Movie poster of The Tango Lesson by Sally Potter.
A CBC headline says, "Summer Sports: Canada's 27th medal, 9th gold makes Paris its most successful non-boycotted Summer Games ever"
Screenshot of a Goodreads search for "more than two" that shows only the first edition of the book
The 17-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene. The King County Medical Examiner's Office identified the teen as Hazrat Ali Rohani.
A tray of asparagus seedlings.
The 1980 cover of the book East of the Sun, West of the Moon by Mercer Mayer. A gret-bearded giant flies over a mountainous landscape; his right hand holds a dark-haired young woman dressed in rags, and his right points into the distance.
The 2002 cover of the book Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men by Lundy Bancroft
The 2010 paperback cover of the book Gifts of Imperfection, The: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are by Bréne Brown.
The cover of the book Sad Love: Romance and the Search for Meaning by Carrie Jenkins, showing a painting of an anatomical heart covered in gold lines as though broken and repaired.
A photo from Abu Ghraib prison of private Lyndie England with a cigarette in her mouth smiling and pointing her fingers. The background is blacked out.
The cover of the 1993 pamphlet Beyond Consensus: Salvaging Sense of the Meeting by Barry Morley. It is solid dark green with a white knotwork design and text.
The cover of I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World by Kai Cheng Thom, depicting a doubled red daisy.
The original 1985 cover of the book Contact by Carl Sagan. The planet Earth floats in space with the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy in the background.
Ke Huy Kwan as Waymond in Everything Everywhere All at Once. Overlay text says "This is how I fight."
The cover of the 1987 book The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin
The cover of the 1992 book T.A.Z: The Temporary Autonomous Zone by Hakim Bey.
The cover of the book Redefining Our Relationships by Wendy-O Matik
The cover of the book Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent by Eduardo Galeano.
The cover of the original edition of Wonderful Life by Stephen Jay Gould. It shows an artist's depiction of animals fr the Burgess Shale.
The cover of the book Possession by A.S. Byatt, depicting the Pre-Raphaelite painting The Beguiling of Merlin by Edward Byrne-Jones.
Original cover of The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley. A grey-robed woman on a white horse holds a sword.
The 1980s cover of the book Homecoming by Cynthia Voight. Four children ranging in age from 4 to 13 sit together looking pensive.
Screencap of the front page of an article from the New York Times titled "Lessons from a 20-person polycule"
Selfie of Eve wearing a dusty pink "Arizona" t-shirt
Selfie of Eve with her hair tied back and wearing a black KN95 mask.
A photo of Ke Huy Quan as Waymond Wang in Everything Everywhere All at Once, with the quote: "When I choose to see the good side of things, I'm not being naive. It is strategic and necessary. It's how I've learned to survive through everything. I know you see yourself as a fighter. Well, I see myself as one too. This is how I fight...The only thing I do know is that we have to be kind. Please, be kind. Especially when we don't know what's going on."
Complete match list 1. Wanda Maximoff (WandaVision): 90% 2. Maeve Millay (Westworld): 88% 3. Inara Serra (Firefly + Serenity): 87% 4. Elsa (Frozen): 87% 5. . Maleficent (Maleficent): 87% 6. Elizabeth Swann (Pirates of the Caribbean): 86% 7. Sabrina Spellman (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina): 86% 8. Princess Fiona (Shrek): 86% 9. Rose DeWitt Bukater (Titanic): 86% 10. Ciri (The Witcher): 86% 11. Alice Cullen (Twilight): 85% 12. Lucilla (Gladiator): 85% 13. Jean Grey. (X-Men): 85% 14. Nomi Marks (Sense8): 85% 15. Aunt Polly. (Peaky Blinders): 85% 16. Daenerys Targaryen (Game of Thrones): 84% 17. Dolores Abernathy. (Westworld): 84% 18. Kalinda Sharma (The Good Wife): 84% 19. Gisele Yashar (Fast & Furious): 84% 20. Claire Randall (Outlander): 84% 21. Juliana Crain (The Man in the High Castle): 84% 22. . Heloise (Portrait of a Lady on Fire): 84% 23. Jean Milburn (Sex Education): 84% 24. Cassie Thomas (Promising Young Woman): 84% 25. Jadzia Dax (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine): 83%
A photo of Wanda Maximov captioned "90% match."
A red suitcase. In the left half are the books What Love Is and Sad Love by Carrie Jenkins. The right half is a furry void with piercing green eyes.
A selfie of Eve in a grey sweatshirt with a half-smile.
A tortoiseshell cat looking at the camera.
Several piles of cut-up and highlighted paper are spread out across a black table flanked by yellow benches, accompanied by a pair of scissors and a scotch tape dispenser.
A blackboard with lettering in white chalk says: "Use calm voices to talk to each other; Listening to each other the first time; Have alone time each day; Pitch in to keep house clean."
A photograph of my arm showing a new tattoo with a grid of black ones and zeros. The one form a circle on a field of zeros, and inside the circle are the words "the vastness is bearable only through love."
Jiji, a very voidy void cat, sits in an olive-green soft hideaway that is perched next to a heating vent. Only her face and ears are visible. Her very large green eyes look slightly alarmed.
Still from the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel shows Midge Maisel in a jaunty red suit and cap.