by Darcie Wilder. Reads like a stranger’s incredible twitter feed you’d stumble upon after going too many layers deep stalking a friend of a friend of a friend.
by Darcie Wilder — I read this when it came out and go back to it quite often, feels like reading tweets by a cool person (who is having a hard time, just like you) without having to actually be on twitter
Then read my inaugural Substack post on emotional exhibitionism, where I wrote about a troubling and very normalized trend I noticed during my bleak year as a TikTok user. 🛌 💌
A classic older millennial recco.
📖 Published during VICE’s golden days
📖 Arfin gets raw and real.
📖 It‘s like a modern day Go Ask Alice, but with the happy ending of recovery.
There’s always room for fun and whimsy but infantilizing yourself (esp as a woman) is a dangerous game to play. Take proper care of yourself, it’s a good thing to be a grownup. “im baby” is no more!!!
Just like back in the old internet days when you'd read an internet word like gif that never came up in irl conversations and everyone kinda just had their own perception of it.
