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My apartment with its torn up walls, slanted floors, and exposed brick walls who sometimes cough up crumbled rock onto the floor, the couch, and sometimes my bedsheets, also has free & limitless water (except not free of the environmental implication; not free in that the hot tends to be more a trickle than a stream) and a clawfoot tub.
Tonight I sat in that tub, under the hot spray, and I looked and I noticed, for the first time in years, the magnets in the shower curtains,—when was the last time I recognized these little guys who quite literally hold together the whole shower experience?
The simple act of noticing what I haven’t noticed since the deep recesses of my own childhood inspired this momentary radical nostalgia in me, the kind which reminds that I haven’t changed all that much since the days I played with toy ships in the bathtub, imagining dramatic scenes with wave swells and dense dark storms, since the days I shot off water from the tips of my fingers at intangible yet ever wily foes.
Feb 2, 2024
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i like showering. i always have. it’s so comforting to stay stagnant while the world moves over you, hot water hitting your back. i zone out in the shower because i shower in the morning. i get sleepy. i like to listen to punk music in the shower to stay awake. i like to wash my hair. i like to stretch my fingers and crack my back on the side wall. i love to run the water through my hair, let it fall flat and slick. i like the way it makes my hair curl, my face warm. i like how the world fogs around me. i think about my girlfriend and coffee and work and i feel groggy, admittedly, but hopeful. morning showers are lovely
Feb 6, 2025
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I FUCK heavy with a good long shower. I go in with the knowledge that a hot shower is a luxury unknown to even medieval kings. the serenity and bliss that comes with standing naked and alone under the warm water is something I will never take for granted 🧘
May 26, 2025
Figuring out the shower, whether it be staying over at someone’s house, being on vacation, or going to a new gym, is always a journey. What knob gives you hot water? Do you have to pull the thing to make it come out of the spout? Do I have to open the drain? I navigate the world through a veil of perpetual cluelessness so this can easily become a ten minute ordeal. I’ve shed blood. But on the other side, a crisp refreshing feeling of cleanliness that feels earned, and a new appreciation for the machinery of home.
Jan 17, 2025
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made a joke post on substack notes that i honestly still think is pretty funny but it turns out it went whoosh right over a lot of peoples' heads, especially on twitter people thought it was serious,—and so here i am with my phone blowing up because friends and people i haven't heard from in years are just seeing it on their feeds and texting me allll about it
Sep 9, 2024
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this feels like a crazy little window of time in which everyone on this app is cool,
i'd follow anybody here honestly
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