Sooooooooooo, here's the short version: 2025 gave me one of my worst habits.
Long version: I have a bad habit of overly analyzing the TimeJINX basement background because 'holy fuck, it's spacious, oh look! moving boxes! is that a workout bench with a pillow on it? what's in that laundry basket? oh look! a mousetrap! oh look! each clock on the wall shows a different time! is that a cat carrier? that hot water tank has an oddly shaped dent in it...' y'know, stuff like that.
(the mousetrap is a nod to Jester's secret death in TMP2 and sometimes you'll find Jester IN the mousetrap, TVTropes taught me that)
I also started overanalyzing Moonique's kitchen, when we got gameplay of Cookie Haus. 'oh look! a jerrycan of gasoline! must be for the oven! is that an ax? she and jerri share something in common? wait, moonique's kitchen has a mouse hole in it? did all that spilt salt get in the cookie batter?'
THEN I learnt that TimeJINX and Cookie Haus have the same art director...and a lot of things made sense to me...which SOMEHOW led to me being (probably) the first Jerrique (Jerri x Moonique) shipper
(seriously, I got a fic of the two goobers as a lesbian couple, on AO3 -> https://archiveofourown.org/works/78771896/chapters/206573206#workskin)
TLDR: I compared backgrounds in two of my favorite games and now I ship the hostesses