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No more instagram / snapchat filters
No more tiktok beauty settings
No more distorting your sense of self
Let’s quit filters cold turkey and normalize looking normal again
Jan 3, 2025
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they need to come out with something that feels as good as making yourself into a Snapchat Anthropomorphic Dog in 2016 did. does anybody even give a fuck about filters like that anymore…
Apr 17, 2025
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~"not interested" for every ad
~blocking people that exist only to be hot and offer nothing else of value
~scrolling on past 30+ year olds that are responding to videos about their skin like they haven't obviously gotten at least botox
~refusing to buy in to the idea that I'm not supposed to look like I've grown and birthed two children and have had interrupted sleep for the past four years
It's okay to want to look hot and feel good in your body. It's easier to do that when you're not comparing yourself to an image on the internet. Filters are sneaky af. Nothing and no one is perfect. Your beauty is in your movement that cannot always be captured by a still frame. Remember that.
Jan 15, 2025
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So badly do I want to post something with a grime to it because it’s coming straight from Snapchat. Perhaps a selfie with oily camera lens syndrome. Perhaps because you had just finished eating a sandwich for lunch. Perhaps your friend did something funny and you hastily whip out your 6s. Perhaps you want to commemorate it with a piccy on the grammy.
White converse, Air Force ones. Tommy Hilfiger light wash jeans. They are unflattering and give you a jenis. They are also cuffed twice at the ankle. Everyone loves vegetable sushi rolls, everyone loves to post pictures of movies on their macbook. Weed back when it was weed and not giving us psychosis. Sideboob community is huge. Ctrl just came out. iPhones are shiny and so tiny that your fingers look fat in mirror selfies. You cannot archive. You’ve gotta stick to it… your gut, I mean. Only square crops allowed. Your photo has to fit that 4x4. Must look good on the feed. Never too many images of yourself. Picture of a ladybug in the grass? Necessity. Show us your complexities... Sigh.
I wish I was strong enough to negate the discontented followers who don’t understand my grainy selfie is twenty-eighteen, twenty-four-seven propaganda. I wish I was strong enough to stand up for what I believe in.
2d ago
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Aug 12, 2024
Bram Stoker’s Dracula in newsletter format, each journal entry is sent to your inbox on the same dates Jonathan Harker wrote them. I’ve only learned about it half way through the whole thing last year so I’m trying again and it’s been super fun to read the book like that. They started on May 3rd so there’s still time to catch up!
May 9, 2024
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Look, first and foremost, it’s normal to want to look cool. We all want to fit in, be accepted, be validated and feel like we belong, it’s a natural human thing.
But the only way out is through. You have to accept and love yourself. You have to embrace your cringe, and your wonders, and your quirks. You have to learn to be proud of them. You have to validate yourself and understand that by choosing to be you, you will lose some things. Maybe some friends, maybe some validation. But you will get so much more. There’s nothing cooler than someone who is unafraid of being who they are. That’s the key, I guess. And it’s freaking hard, so it’s a process. Just start with the basics. Dress how you want to dress, look how you want to look, and experiment with it, see how you feel, face the rejection with open arms. Be cringe, but be authentic.
Nov 18, 2024