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Why I'm Pseudonymous
Complaining about writing workshop again....
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Want to be Enjoyed
More than you enjoy being wanted.
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The Unfacedoxxed Egirl in Literature
Contains spoilers for unspoilable classics
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What Writing Workshop Advice Optimizes For
God, for months I’ve been trying to write a long, comprehensive post about everything that I resent or that annoys me about the whole writing workshop…
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March 2024

Embodiment is not Headlessness
An art professor once told me that when she taught figure drawing, students had a weirdly common tic of drawing their nudes faceless. She knew an artist…
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Lainey Molnar Comics & Consumer Positivity
It's okay for women to make any choice they want (except not spending money)
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2 Case Studies on Women & Work
Our first subject grows up in a trad family. She sees certain aspects of the situation—her mother’s eternal workload, her mother’s dependence on the…
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February 2024

Problems with Cross-Gender Eavesdropping
Not a flawless cheat code.
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One Reason Institutional Literature Sucks Lately
It's not fun to read a permission slip.
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Hyperstimuli are Understimulating
Pleasure is satisfying, and satisfaction makes you stop.
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January 2024

Instagram Versus Reality
I said it shorter on twitter but here we are anyway
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having read "the faerie queene"
a shallow response
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