Death Before Sex! What could be better than death in Christianity? And, more importantly, what could be worse?

babes affected by christianity may be entitled to read this fucking thinkpiece/personal essay/mini memoir about death, sex, and religion. 3 things that go great together :)

#writing #writer #exchristian #atheism #agnostic #purityculture #medium #personalessay #sexuality

My Month of Introspection, Reading This Book, and Ugly Crying About It Or, my review of “My Year of Rest and Relaxation.”

if you somehow haven't read this book yet please allow me to convince you (or scare you away, as most Ottessa Moshfegh works are). personally, I fucking loved it

(also, if you like writing book reviews, please lmk or submit to my medium publication)

#review #bookreview #ottessamoshfegh #writing

Stop trying to make me go camping! Look, I just have a few things to say to the pushy outdoorsy folk. About skiing, too.

today's favorite short sunday read: why the fuck does everyone care so much about whether I like camping ?? hiking ?? skiing ?? leave me alone!

#writer #writing #personal #short #shortread #medium #complaining #complaint #shortwriting #sundayread

A Why I Ghost Ghosting gets a bad rap, but sometimes it’s the best way to end things.

if your date cancelled on you tonight - or if you cancelled on your date -- this one's for you

#dating #ghosting #moderndating #datingadvice #personal #writer #writing #medium #shortread

13 Dumb Reasons I Swipe Left I have a lot to say about modern dating, but this one is all fun and games. Kind of.

okay, some of them aren't DUMB but I promise to keep expanding the list. online daters, swipers, and people fucking sick of dating these days, this is for u

#dating #datingadvice #tinder #onlinedating #bumble #list #hinge #writer #writing #listicle #medium

The Dish I Washed With My Boyfriend No matter how hard I try, how independent I am, was I always destined to be a mediocre wife?

freshly updated: a kind-of-heavy memory of boyfriends, great grandmas, dishes, and the women who came before me

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#writing #writer #personalessay #memory #feminism #homemakers #gender #patriarchy #genderedexpectations #medium #memoir

99 Reviews Unfiltered book reviews and recaps for an open-minded audience.

if you like writing book reviews (the more insane the better) and you have a Medium account, please follow my lil book review publication and submit your own !

medium.com/99-reviews

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#reviews #bookreviews #books #reading #booktok #review #bookreview #publication #medium #contribute

Why I Ghost Ghosting gets a bad rap, but sometimes it’s the best way to end things.

it's time to justify ghosting !! personally I'm a big fan and I really don't think that makes me toxic (I swear)

#dating #relationships #datingadvice #relationshipadvice #moderndating #ghosting #writer #writing #medium

White text on a black background that says the title of the article, "The Compliment Gap." Below it says everythingreallymatters.substack.com and has the Substack logo.

finally got my shit together and started publishing on substack (in addition to medium) if that's more your speed. free to read !

today's topic: what problems come up when women get most compliments?

#dating #relationships #gender #datingadvice #feminism

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The Compliment Gap Why women receive so many compliments, and men…don’t. What’s up with that?

been talking about this with friends and dates lately: what's behind women receiving more compliments than men, and what's the vicious cycle that prevents improvement?

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#dating #relationships #culture #writer #writing #compliments #gender #genderedexpectations

a mildly gross (but not graphic), very short reverie about what happens when you drink a little too much on vacation

#writing #personalessay #personal #drinking #culture #travel #memory #humanity

I would really like to discuss this again because my opinion stands........lmk what you think about this mild lit analysis that deserves a director's cut

#review #bookreview #thesilentpatient #lit #fiction #mentalhealth #writer #writing #medium #free

feeling moody tn - we're all thinking about our doomed situationships I guess (this is an extremely short read fyi)

#dating #relationships #smoking #shortform #shortread #personal #memories #writing #writer #medium

Why I Don’t Ask Questions on Dates We can’t chop personality into discrete parts, so why do we do it on dates — and why do women bear the brunt of it?

I asked someone a few questions on a date this weekend and now I feel like a fraud - here's a short lil read about the hazards of objectifying women while dating

#dating #datingadvice #relationships #moderndating #writing #writer #art #playboy

Clearing Her Name: The (Wrong) Stories We Tell About Women On narratives, patriarchy, truthfulness, and a young Aztec girl with a tarnished name.

today's quick feminist read: what happens when patriarchal bias controls the narrative? how can we look out for it? what's it like coming to terms with your own stories?

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#writing #writer #feminism #feminist #sexism #patriarchy #history #art #women #medium #quickread #short

Death Before Sex! What could be better than death in Christianity? And, more importantly, what could be worse?

if you're looking for some tongue-in-cheek post Christian nonsense about death and sex, consider reading this instead of going out tonight

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#writing #writer #christianity #exchristian #atheist #religion #religioustrauma #trauma

Menron: Starting a Business to Party with the Boys Who’s choosing a company car over class consciousness?

I needed to vent a bit about men in startup culture. it's a short read; commiserate with me. lfg

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#writer #writing #business #businessculture #patriarchy #workculture #sexism #money

reposting this because it's inexplicably weirdly popular and I love that for you guys

#writer #writing #mythbusters #discoverychannel #2000s

My Month of Introspection, Reading This Book, and Ugly Crying About It Or, my review of “My Year of Rest and Relaxation.”

lmk what you think of this review cause I kinda want to review her short stories ("homesick for another world") that like genuinely made my skin crawl in a fairly good way

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#bookreview #review #ottessamoshfegh #books #readinglist #medium #writer #writing #authors #myyearofrestandrelaxation

Do I Like Dating Men, or Am I Just Competitive? A really, really, really honest review of my dating habits.

if ur wondering why you're still dating [men], you might be like me !

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#writing #writer #medium #dating #relationships #relationshipadvice #datingadvice #genz #moderndating #queer

A Feminist Critique of the Show “Mythbusters” That No One Asked For So, 2000s Discovery Channel, anyone? Let’s take it too seriously.

I have finally used my talents for good and written my magnum opus: an overview of the ancient show "mythbusters," including how they treated women, my breakdown of the cast, and how this show is a 2000s graphic-tee fest

#tv #discoverychannel #mythbusters #tvshows #review #tvreview #series

The Drunk Cig Will Never Die We know smoking is bad. But you’ll have to pry the drunk cig out of our cold, dead hands.

it's come to my attention that my drunk cig article was, like, way too long. here's a more palatable version - a history of my drunk cigs and why it's kind of nice to smoke together when things suck

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#writing #writer #personalessay #dating #memoir #smoking #millennials #relationships

Religion, Science, & the Desert Seeing the awe of the universe beyond religion and science; seeing life in things that aren’t.

this is for people who are like, religion? 👎 spirituality? 🤷‍♀️ nature? 🤠 oh fuck yeah

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#medium #writer #writing #desert #religion #spirituality #nature #lovenature #protectourparks #exchristian #writing #personalessay

The dish thoughts about being a woman, doing the dishes, and how healing never seems to feel quite right to me.

this did pretty well its first time around, so here we are: "the dish," a little memory about my a relative's corningware, being a woman, and doing the f*cking dishes

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#writer #writing #personalessay #memory #feminism #sexism #homemakers #family #women #medium #creativenonfiction #exmormon

The wedding cake A horrible, terrible, no good object lesson I’ve never forgotten.

if you grew up in christian purity culture, this one's for you. actually kind of a real read.

#writer #writing #christian #exchristian #atheist #purityculture #exmormon #objectlesson #medium #memoir #personalessay

In a World Apart From Nature, I Am Familiar With the Rocks in a River Memories of a family cabin and growing up in a river.

it's self promo o'clock! I wrote a short prose-y, memoir-y article about being outside (like, the woods). and I actually took this one seriously

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#writing #nature #forest #medium #writer #personalessay #childhood #memory #river #nonfiction

The (Wrong) Stories We Tell About Women On narratives, patriarchy, truthfulness, and a young Aztec girl with a tarnished name.

hot off the metaphorical presses: thinking about women who didn't get what they deserved, crying in an art exhibit, and a little bit about aging

extremely inspired by @yourewrongabout.bsky.social 🥲

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#writing #article #yourewrongabout #medium #writer #personalessay #shortessay #sexism #feminism

The Drunk Cig Will Never Die We know smoking is bad. But you’ll have to pry the drunk cig out of our cold, dead hands.

look, don't smoke, but also, here's an ode to the drunk cig

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#writing #drunkcig #writer #medium #personal #personalessay #milennial #culture #milennialculture #coping

reposting this baby because I'm talking about dating anyway

#dating #writing #writer #datingadvice

Not Hot Enough to Write Home About: Dating While “Thick” I love the body positivity movement, but I’m still a “category.” My relationship with my weight has always been complicated; dating doesn’t…

dating while "thick" is a fucking roller coaster !! whether you can relate to this or want to read about the experience pls give this a nice look-over, also there's a bad pun

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#medium #article #writer #bodyimage #bodypositivity #thick #personal #sexism #bodytype #writing #personalessay