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you left for bmt and I'm bitter here alone in the thick of winter and I resent picking up my pen to write you every day. but really it's a petty miracle that we no longer speak and that you have deprived me of you enough to keep me up some nights taking sleep from me when I could be smiling out cold. it's nice and cruel reverting to barely talking the way they used to have to do it. I think I'd feel more impassioned about everything in my life if I was used to getting what I wanted less. yeah it's that you couldn't even taper me off you but it's killing me not hearing a single thing. maybe once we're back to talking every day I'll think about the unserved postage stamps losing their stick somewhere flat around the art supplies. and I'll miss missing you
Jan 7, 2025
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This is me expressing my distaste for modern communication. I am longing, no, YEARNING to write letters. To anyone really - friends, romantic interests, family - all of the above. Why on god’s green earth are we not taking advantage of such an artful and intentional means of communicating with one another. Boo tomato tomato, we all failed the test. I hate texting. Let me send you stickers and love notes. What is wrong will us all!!?
Sep 13, 2024
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The time aspect sucks I get it but the Other one - my best friend of like 10+ years went 🤡 mode when my mother died and I wrote and rewrote these letters to her that I never sent and it was helpful for me
Mar 17, 2024
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If I haven't spoken to my friend in at least three months, I start to ask if they want to send letters. If you don't communicate for months or years, you might as well send letters: they're practically just as fast but with depth and physicality! Who doesn't love some paper treasures! Plus, it provides a Victorian-drama level of yearning in waiting to continue a conversation. There is nothing I have savored more than checking for a reply after sending a letter. I open my mailbox every Sunday. I am aware of this error in logic, but I love it every time I do it. I am a child again, and I am joyfully impatient. Not only is it mail, but it's mail from a friend: the best kind.
Jan 26, 2024
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I swear I can plank for unimaginable amounts of time while listening to Fiona Apple I don't know why it works but it works and the rush it gives me is unbeatable
Feb 12, 2025
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I cannot recommend enough learning how to bake something incredibly well and making it your signature. Bake it once, twice, seven times, learn it well, bring it for your friends, enemies, coworkers—you become a legend. I perfected baklava several years ago and almost every holiday there’s the inevitable request for me to bring some and everyone knows me as the baklava girl and it fills me with so much joy to participate in this exchange of sweets and compliments and I swear it enlivens my ego and awakens my heart and everyone wins and it’s divine
Feb 10, 2025
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This crevice of the internet feels like eavesdropping on a coffee shop dialogue between wizardly scholars who specialize in each of your ultra-specific microhobbies and interests. Create an account, search a topic you’re interested in, find the most satisfyingly specific articles you’ve ever seen—articles you never knew you wanted or needed to read—it’s marvelous and terrific. Academia also sends you email recs about articles it feels you’d take interest in based on previous searches, nine out of ten times of which are spot on. I just got finished reading a paper around the amalgamation of the Japanese Avant Garde and a Frank Lloyd Wright hotel. Heavenly
May 4, 2025