HeyJaredif you get what i mean?
personal essays with a loose focus body image, beauty standards, gen z culture, and young adulthood.
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Bloody teeth and the paralysis of unfeeling. (opens the original)
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Standstills. Standstills. Standstills.It’s raining today. I woke up before 6am — around 5:43am — and forced myself to go for a walk even though in the moment, I’d rather have three teeth pulled than get up and get out. One of those mornings where the mites that live in my brain were grasping onto every thought they could catch in their little mouths, chewing them up, turning them into new, worse sentences and spitting them back out into the ether of my mind, overflowing and empty all at once. Wh
The ice is melting and I, underneath. (opens the original)
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You know in the thick of winter, when the snow begins to fall and slowly every surface becomes covered by a heavy blanket of white? All the sharp edges — porch steps, corners of a roof, or maybe a bench — take on a smooth, rounded form. Not a trace of the world underneath the snow remains, and if you happened upon the sight without knowing anything about winter, it would be easy to deduce that this is all there ever was. I don’t think I knew how much snow I was living under until it began to mel
I normally go for skinny girls. (opens the original)
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My girlfriend and I have been watching Love is Blind recently, a show which dares to ask the question: can conventionally attractive women overcome all odds and finally be accepted and loved for who they are by mediocre men? And you might be — but probably won’t be — surprised to find that often, the answer is no. (Disclaimer: Fear no spoilers of the new season, we are going back into the archives and have only recently finished season 9, which aired six years ago.)This season alone — which take
GO AHEAD, TELL ME ITS GONNA BE OKAY ONE MORE TIME! SEE WHAT HAPPENS! (opens the original)
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“Everything will be okay.”I know what she’s thinking as soon as the words leave my mouth, because we are of the same mind and it is therefore the same thing that I myself think every time someone says it to me: That’s a load of bullshit. Because it is. And I know that, and I knew that before I said it, and still I said it. It’s funny the ways we default to comforting someone when the moment calls for it, and by funny I mean it is kind of a problem. My other default in crisis situations is I star
Not everybody’s opinion matters that much and that is OK! (opens the original)
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It’s getting cold again. Well, let’s rework that. It’s getting cold again the same way I’m done getting short and unflattering haircuts: I am done with it in theory because I’ve evolved and come (once again) to the realization that long hair looks better on me, but everyone knows by the end of the day I’m going to have a poorly-grown-out-mushroom-shaped bixie once again. Okay so for those following along at home this comparison was made as a means of poking fun at how it’s cold in the mornings b
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