Communication is so wild though like you can spend hours thinking someone is mad at you and then when you ask what’s up they’re like “yeah my mom really pissed me off earlier” and it turns out you were just assuming it was about you. And now you don’t have to carry that stress anymore
Or you could finally work up the nerve to be like “hey I’m not a huge fan of this thing we do together” and the other person is just like thank god I also don’t like that thing. And then neither of you have to do it anymore
OR even crazier, you can be like “I’m having this problem and idk what to do about it” and they’re like “what about this?” and they just solve the entire thing and you realize again how smart and clever your friends are
Mindblowing every time
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Things Read in March
Articles & Essays:
White outrage about Will Smith's slap is rooted in antiblackness
Hillsong Co-Founder Has Resigned After Allegations of Misconduct
Nurses Eat Their Young; An Insight Into Systematic Hazing and its Implications on Patient Care
Rashida Renée on Killing Nostalgia in 2022
'It's a powerful feeling: the Indigenous American tribe helping to bring back buffalo
Aren't You Wasting Your Time?
People of colour fleeing Ukraine attacked by Polish nationalists
We All Simp for Alfred Molina
The Problem with 'The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas'
How Silence Became a Luxury Product
Inside the Cat Show Controversy
I Love Sally Rooney's Novels, But They Aren't Written for Me
This Fall, Dress Like A "Cool Shrink"
The Narcissism of Queer Influencer Activists
"The Slaves Were Happy": High School Latin and the Horrors of Classical Studies
An Interview with Andrew Garfield
The Nightmare on Elm Street remake is better than the angry mob insisted
Emily Ratajkowski: 'I had succeeded in comodifying my body. So why was I so unhappy?'
The sinister return of eugenics
Your brain is not a computer
My Year of Reading Every Ursula K. Le Guin Novel
World's longest song drones on
Interview with Jo Ann Beard
The Fourth State of Matter
Reddit Account May Prove Murder
Who is the Bad Art Friend?
The Bizarre Book 'Consensual Hex' is Getting Dragged for Depicting Real People
12 Literary Plagiarism Scandals, Ranked
Bob Dylan Slams Plagiarism Accusers as 'Wussies and Pussies'
Uncle Jam: George Clinton talks sample trolls, Kendrick Lamar, and UFO crashes
Bob Dylan Cheats Again?
The Allure of Chola Femininity
The Sacred Wood
The Cop-Attacking Chilean Dog Who Became A Worldwide Symbol of Protest
Why a baby shark is called a pup -- and other unusual baby animal names
The world's most unwanted plants help trees make more fruit
Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported
Bizarro World
War Over 'The Conjuring': The Disturbing Claims Behind a Billion-Dollar Franchise
'Our Flag Means Death' Might Just be the Best Queer Show of the Year
The Alt-Right's Asian Fetish
Race Consciousness: Fascism and Frank Herbert's "Dune"
The Bootstrap Fallacy: Self-Levitation Doesn't Work
Lost Genes Explain Vampire Bats' Diet of Blood
A New Start After 60: 'I became a psychotherapist at 69 and found my calling.'
The Art of Loving and Losing Female Friends
The Singularity Is Here
How the Snowflakes Won
How Hollywood heartthrobs and Steven Spielberg helped make a drag queen cult classic
Let's Talk About Bæddelism
A Guide to Every Single Immersive Van Gogh Experiences Blanketing the U.S.
The Secret Life of Sacheen Littlefeather
"Cultural sexism in the world is very real when you've lived on both sides of the coin."
When Writing Fiction Hurts the People You Love
Poetry:
Outbreaks by Kitchen McKeown
Telemachus' Detachment by Louise Glück
To My Body by Nancy Sullivan
Magdalene by Marie Howe
Dream by Mathias Svalina
Phlebotomy, As Told by the Blood by Torrin A. Greathouse
The Lost Woods as Elegy for Black Childhood by Derrick Austin
March by Richard Kenney
Spring by Chloe Honum
Lines on Last Spring by Robert Hass
Books:
Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell
White Lines On A Green Field by Catherynne M. Valente
Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers by Alyssa Wong
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot
Steal Like An Artist by Austin Kleon
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