HeyJaredSomewhere, Softly
musings on travel, queerness, media, and life as it's known to me
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River bends (opens the original)
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It’s been a while since I wrote something I truly felt proud of but maybe that’s not a bad thing. Maybe we need phases where we write and words only take up a fraction of ourselves, in order to appreciate the times when they hold much larger parts of ourselves. Writing absorbs us, like we’re coming home to ourselves, like we rely on language to know we’re breathing.I remember writing’s not the only thing capable of making me feel that way – I can come home to myself in my friend’s flat a 3 hour
29 lessons from 29 years (opens the original)
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hoarding things won’t help you, it’ll only you hold backyour friends will grow in different directions to you, and that’s normal, even if it feels wrong sometimesyour habits aren’t going to magically change by themselves. you’re responsible for making changes, and if you want to badly enough, it won’t be as hard as you predict! but you have to actually want to make them happencomparison really is the thief of joy. resist it as much as you candon’t let how you were as a teenager dictate your futu
For purple (opens the original)
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I know, I know. You’ve seen me become so captivated by vivid summer blues, foreign blues, and make-believe blues, perhaps you almost thought I wouldn't come back to you – that I wouldn’t again write for you the way I wrote for your cousin. You should have known I would – at the end of a season, there’s still you and me. There always has been, since meeting in early years of girlhood, when you were delivered to me in magazines before I’d even made up my mind about big things, like favourite colou
Somewhere, Softly in August (opens the original)
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Dear reader,Hellooo and good morning/afternoon/evening to you, depending on when you’re reading this. How are you doing? In the northern hemisphere we’re now leaving summer behind and, seemingly unlike everyone around me, I’m actually very sad about it. Whilst I recognise that it’s been way too hot in the UK these past few months and that’s caused a lot of issues for people, I’m just not excited about the prospect of being cold. I never used to deal with the heat well but I’ve recently loved t-s
Writing to someone, no one, everyone, or anyone? (opens the original)
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I can count more than one occasion in which I’ve been reading someone’s writing advice and learnt that I should be writing with a specific reader in mind. My eyes have scanned the replies agreeing with this – smart people saying they write earnestly, focussed on the image of their best friend, daughter, or their younger self. I’ve wondered whether I'm missing something, being pretty sure that I don't do this.Maybe I will at some point, when a certain project calls for it. But for now, when I wri
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