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What is Dorothea Brooke's Color Season?

We already know her kibbe type.

Apr 30 •

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Your Color Season Can Change!!!!

I bet your ass didn't even know you had a color season

Apr 25 •

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Glute Training Can Make You Less Crazy

You already knew it could make you hotter

Apr 19 •

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Cookbooks to Cure Recipe Brain

And also: what recipe brain even is, that you should want to cure it

Apr 16 •

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March 2025

No One Wants a TV Baby

But I kinda want a TikTok baby....

Mar 25

Writing Paywalled Posts is Sooooo Much Easier Actually

It only seems harder sometimes because it's hard to believe how easy it is

Mar 23 •

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Lily Bart's Virginity

Isn't it weird when you think about it?

Mar 22 •

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Every Library Book I've Read This Year

I may have read non-library books, but I have no record of them.

Mar 15 •

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Screens vs Literature is a False Dichotomy

Rumors of the death of narrative have been greatly exaggerated.

Mar 13 •

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Thank God for Mean Reviews

Nick Hornby has a post on reviewing and being reviewed, subheaded “Books need your kindness now more than ever.” I haven’t read the whole post because…

Mar 8 •

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Maybe there’s some sort of law of conservation of literary repression.

Mar 6 •

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February 2025

Someone asked me about my deconversion.

Feb 28 •

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