round-up: 8/19

recs, quotations, tweets, & more

Happy Saturday!

Here’s what I have for you today:

• Housekeeping

• What I’m reading

• Quotations

• Things

• Tweets

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What I’m reading:

• What Happens to All the Stuff We Return?

• Do we “live in hell”?

• What Is Lifestyle?

• Good Art Friends

• The Merch-ification of Book Publishing

• Why I Don't Translate Non-English Words in My Writing

• On the power of whittling things down

• Plastic People

• Does IUD Insertion Really Have to Be So Painful?

• We Can Forget It for You Wholesale: Archiving and Distribution in the Era of Digital Erasure

• What’s With All The Milk?

• Shelby Sharie Cohen – Artist’s Statement

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Quotations:

Friendship was witnessing another’s slow drip of miseries, and long bouts of boredom, and occasional triumphs. It was feeling honored by the privilege of getting to be present for another person’s most dismal moments, and knowing that you could be dismal around him in return.

-Hanya Yanagihara

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If there’s one thing Western culture loves more than commodifying women, it’s consuming them.

-Jessica DeFino

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Physical things that have made my life easier lately:

• A basic watering can

• Tinted sunscreen

• These eyedrops specifically

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Tweets:

I mean! Fair point.

Lol.

Scream.

Me!!!

An iconic scene.

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One final thing:

The pay for this copyrwiting job is criminal.

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Finally, look how my new apartment is finally sorta kinda slowly but surely coming together!

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dbouts on Instagram: “i am slowly making progress on apt decor everyone cheered”

August 19, 2023

Have a great weekend—

-Despy Boutris
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