HeyJaredSoft Notes — Things I Reach For
Soft Notes is about style, self-concept, and the female inner life — what we wear, what we reach for, and what we make things mean.
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i booked a hotel room to finger myself in latex (opens the original)
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The bodysuit has a snap at the crotch so you can get to your pussy without undressing, which the product page calls, and I am quoting, “using the facilities.”I did not book a hotel room to use the facilities. I booked it for a full-length mirror, a lock on the door, and nobody’s opinion. I wanted to put my fingers where that snap was and watch what my face did.Conservatively, I have made myself come four hundred times, and I have never once watched.The receptionist asked if it was just me.“Just
PRIVATE CAMERA ROLL #08 — the hoodie stayed open longer than it needed to (opens the original)
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the photos i kept to myself #05 — the ones i almost sent (opens the original)
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why does foreplay have to end? (opens the original)
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the first problem with dressing like somebody else is that eventually you have to pee.i discovered this while wearing a black corset, a tiny tie, stockings, and enough straps to make the bathroom feel like an escape room.there was no party.no date.nobody waiting downstairs.i had nowhere to go.a package had arrived and that was enough reason to become significantly less practical for the next hour.ten minutes later i was standing in front of the mirror with the serious expression people use when
i keep waiting to want more (opens the original)
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there is always supposed to be a next thing.a better apartment.more money.a different body.somewhere prettier to wake up.someone new to become.even happiness seems to arrive with homework.good.now make it bigger.i’m very good at this part.i can turn almost anything into a project.a beautiful morning becomes evidence that i should move somewhere sunnier.a good week becomes a reason to ask why every week can’t feel like that.i can be standing somewhere i wanted desperately to reach and, within min
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