Pleasure & Chaos
Essays on style, music, beauty, and the messy magic of your 20s
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I haven’t published a proper piece of writing since the 2nd of May.Part of me is annoyed at myself for neglecting Substack for two months, but I’ll cut myself some slack. It isn’t that I haven’t been thinking about writing. Writing is, and probably always will be, a necessity for me. The problem is that I haven’t been giving myself the space to create. Instead, I became obsessed with finding the idea. The niche. The essay nobody else has written.Every time I begin typing, it somehow feels as tho
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