Bagel has been written into a spicy romance novel 😳 It started last fall with a viral social media post: A bunny that gave off no bunny vibes whatsoever in favor of looking like he’d seen The Exorcist one too many times.

His unique look and haunted Victorian child eyes captured attention across the social media sphere and landed him in a perfect home. We said “yay Bagel!”, brushed off our shoulders, and got onto the next thing. So imagine our surprise when we received a DM from a New York Times bestselling author. She'd seen Bagel’s story and decided it wasn’t enough for him to haunt our physical plane – he needed to haunt the literary world as well. She let us know he'd inspired the fictional pet of the protagonist in her newest steamy story. Fast forward more than a year: The book is out. And now, within the world of fiction, Bagel is living his life in Hawaii, haunting a surf shop and eating the drywall while his owner is off making “very good friends” with a man on the beach. To be clear, Bagel isn’t the one being romanced in this novel. It’s only the humans falling in love, and Bagel judging them for it. Bagel isn't just a throwaway character either. He's featured heavily. He's mentioned in the Amazon reviews. And the cherry on top: our original post about Bagel is quoted word for word. We let Bagel’s adopter (here in the real world) know about the book. We got a good chuckle. And then she told us that real world Bagel has experienced his own love story. He now has a girlfriend named Thistle who apparently doesn’t care that her boyfriend is deeply strange looking and they are living their happily-ever-after together. For those of you who shared Bagel's original post, please know that you did a pretty weird butterfly effect. This roller coaster of a journey wasn't on our bingo card, but we sure have enjoyed the ride. Thanks for being a part of it.