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Today consisted of pop tarts and shame spirals.

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The recluse
I am struggling with feelings of overexposure.
“Princess Tire”
Out of place vs. out of time
Ways to move out of freeze
A list of recent attempts
Wavelength (continued)
It’s Saturday night.
The feeling of being followed
Friday: By now, I can’t slow down.
Traversing misery and detachment
Monday:
Showing vs. telling
I’m still teaching theory, by the way—tracing Berlant’s influence.
Wavelength (in progress)
Attraction is a rare and precious mineral—I assumed this was true for everyone.
Being in loss
Something about trying not to think about the way my ex’s hands usually felt (good, most of the time), meant that I spent most of the day remembering…
Time for salt
This writing project involves an attempt to return to my mother tongue (being pseudovulnerable on the internet, or something like that).
All optimism is cruel
(Some optimism is toxic)
Queer negativity
Between queer failure and cruel optimism — language for queer existence in an era that promises “it gets better” as things actually, get much, much…

a triptych (/ˈtrɪptɪk/ TRIP-tik)

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No. 3 - V/R, R.
very respectfully
No. 2 - 0.25
0.25
No. 1 - Aspiring umarell
I did not mean to start writing behind a paywall, I only wanted to run away and never come back.
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no rainbows
an alt-ac writing project and attempt to animate (or abandon) my academic job
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