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I encourage you to rip into me if you disagree because shying away from disagreement is what??👂 OUT!
IN
• Reading books
• Folk-rock and folk-country
• Doing stuff on the computer and not your phone like god intended (social media, online shopping, etc.)
• Clothes-wise: colored tights, mini skirts, scarves
• Being late to work
• Talking to strangers, in the same vein: making new friends
• Writing
• Taking the bus and the train
• Saying what you need to say and doing so succinctly
• Unionizing your workplace
OUT
• Boring convos with coworkers
• Wearing clothes you don’t really like
• Minnesota nice (see also: being nice is not always the same as being kind)
• VAPING OHHH MY GOD. WRAP IT UP!!!
• Caring about makeup, unless you’re a drag queen or a goth. Like you get 15 minutes max
• Shying away from disagreement
• Fast casual chain restaurants - go eat local and sit down for a while
• Paw Patrol (copaganda)
• Ass kissing
• Being under 25
Dec 23, 2024
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Ins:
· Free museums
· Loving your friends loudly
· Growing food at home
· Late nights making art
· Photobooths
· Tipping your servers and delivery drivers well
· Listening to a single album or artist at a time
· Movies filmed on 35mm
· NPR
· AO3
· Reading multiple books at once
· Snail mail
· Having a signature color
· Reading the credits
· Physical media
· Local coffee shops and bookstores
· Occasional drunk cigarettes while still claiming you’re not a smoker
· House shows
· Criterion channel
· Handmade gifts
· Third places
· Media literacy
· Eating whole apples
Outs:
· Podcasts about nothing
· Labeling everything as a hyper-specific aesthetic
· Overconsuming media to the point where you aren’t even paying attention to or understanding the content (I’m looking at you 150 goodreads goals, letterboxd warriors, and 3x audiobook listeners)
· Intellectual snobbery
· Capitalism
· Depop resellers
· Vegans who judge non-vegans
· Trending audios that have absolutelye nothing to do with the video
· Not knowing how to cook
· Using ai, even when you’re bored or stuck
· Fighting to the death over celebs or authors who have no clue who you are
· Hating popular things just because they’re popular (you don’t look cool!)
· Nickle and diming your friends on venmo
· Dating apps
· Spotify's pre-made playlists
· Performative activism
· Oversharing online (please bring back secrets and keep your kinks at home)
· Monetizing your hobbies
· Colleen hoover
· Clean versions of songs
· Refusing to have strong opinions on anything
· Making smoking pot your entire personality
· Vaping
· Self help books
Jan 4, 2025
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not finished…
ins ~
• personal style
• being upfront
• live music
• physical media
• crafts/personalizing everything
• trusting your intuition
• blue eyeshadow (in a 1960s way)
• niche playlists
• talking to strangers
• pocket-sized notebooks
• pattern mixing
• spontaneous trips
• messy hair
• doing it for the memoir
outs ~
• being late
• black and white mentality
• being embarrassed
• oversharing
• toxic friendships
• diet soda
• vaping
• impulsive shopping
• dating apps
• letting myself spiral
• doing it for the plot
• fear of being perceived
Jan 20, 2025
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INS/ trend forecast
-funk/disco music revival
-late 60s- early 80s style comeback
-red
-face masks
-peel off polaroids
-stripes & florals
-physical media, DVDs
-adventuring in your home town
-tortoiseshell pattern> cheetah/leopard
-medieval revival brought into the mainstream
-gold>silver
-shopping mall revival
-signet rings
-meditation
-having your own thoughts
-sport: climbing (outfits worn as everyday style too)
-handwritten recipes
-recording studios
-loungewear: grey varsity sweaters and black thongs
-honesty and kindness
-petitions and marches for things you believe in
-making the most of alone time
OUTS
-men wearing carabiners
-embarrassment
-people taking to me about their situationships (leave me alone pls! i don’t have advice)
-flat shoes (sambas/ballet flats)
-speaking too loudly
-smoking (& vaping)
-overconsumption
-letting the far right take over
-drinking at every event
-driving lessons (only until they go right)
(any more suggestions?!)
Jan 19, 2025
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for some reason I have gone most of my life acting like I’m the only person on earth who’s not allowed to ask for help… and also feeling evil whenever I ask someone to do/not do something…. and lately I’m realizing that actually it’s okay if I ask. Most people are cool and will say “yes no problem”
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Even though it hurts like hell. Even though it’s wildly inconvenient. Even though you feel stupid or embarrassed for feeling it. Even though you’ve psychoanalyzed yourself to death and traced the issue all the way back to your childhood mistreatment. The only way out is through here.
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