This happened to a friend of a friend
Guy matched with a girl on tinder and saw her on the train. spent The whole train ride deciding whether or not he should mention it.
They get off at the same stop. Hes still deciding. After all, she hadnāt noticed him.
When they get off, they also happen to to head in the same direction. theyre taking the same exit. Jubilant from the piling coincidences, he says hi to her as they go through the standing turnstile.
She smiles. he tells her they matched on Tinder.
Then the turnstile jams. Theyāre stuck together for 20 minutes. The girlās smile turns to disgust. they never see each other again.
Feb 23, 2024
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I was at the bar and my friend was telling me about this girl that her friend had a crush on and the description sounded vaguely familiar so I asked them to show me her Instagram and she pulled it up and put it on the table. I scrolled through to find a good picture and said āyes I do know her sheās-ā¦right thereā and I looked up and she was running towards me and I screamed her name and we hugged and made a huge scene. Definitely not slick wingman wise but I couldnāt help it because of how much of a coincidence it was.
This girl was constantly on tour up and down the east coast and never in town really so we barely saw each other but always had a good time whenever we did. It was so random and felt cosmic. I introduced her to my friends and she hung out for a bit. Someoneās far away, āunattainableā Instagram crush popping up at the table, as soon shes brought up. It was so cool, Iāll never forget it.
Mar 29, 2024
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Was up working late in the shop with a couple of guys I vaguely know;
Guy #1 got broken up with his high school sweetheart, got a mullet the day after, and feels stupid.
Guy #2 fell in love with a girl but didn't know her "true colors". He didn't like when she didn't let him drink at his uncle's wedding.
Guy #3 met the most amazing woman in his entire life, who was perfect for him in every way, but couldn't make it work cuz of their conflicting schedules. They just couldn't ever see each other. They didn't speak for half a year, she got another man, then got into a car accident that took her life. Guy 3 says whoever he dates next (and if) has some pretty high standards to reach.
Feb 16, 2025
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The first time we met to actually date was through tinder. I was in Sheffield playing a major festival š so he must have liked me while he was there playing the fringe of said festival. then we realised we had met before when weād both played a terrible gig in the pouring rain like 7 months earlier. Heād come up to me after Iād played and told me that one of my poems made him cry. Me, being not very good at tone and attempting witty banter, replied ādid it make you feel guilty?ā as the poem was about being a woman in music. he assumed I hated him and we didnāt speak again until we matched.
Oct 15, 2024
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this was the epitome of the Obama administration
Feb 19, 2024
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Not a rec but a trend I noticed in music.
In Hayes Code Hollywood (puritanical production mandates against things like sex, violence, swearing in movies), there were musical numbers that took otherwise innocuous songs and added eroti./BDSM undertones. we had āDiamonds Are a Girlās Best Friendā from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. The big dance sequence in Minnelliās The Pirate, where a woman is transformed into a donkey/bunny(? I forget) on all fours (I think?) while Gene Kelly gyrates around her in tight, low cut leather (this is crystal clear).
Fast forward (Iām skipping many steps - an amateur at this sort of thing) to the late 2000s/early 2010s. The latent BDSM becomes more explicitly lyrical in songs Like āBad Romanceā and (obviously) āSM.ā However, these songs have erotic purchase - they chart desire ( ā I want your revengeā āChains and whips excite meā) without the context of the body. The instrument and the lyrics let the listener construct titillation/lust.
Then, in the latter 2010s, we get total assaults of the physical experience of pleasure in Songs like āWAPā artists like Cupcakke, etc. so explicit that they undermine eroticism. At the same time, thereās also artists like Carly Rae Jepsen, who wax about yearning in a mystical, spiritual fashion (that im sure Jia Tolentino wrote about somewhere).
still working out why, but I think this change speaks to how rabidly we want sensation (not contemplation) from art but also (bc we get most of our art electronicall) technology and (still Working this one out) religion?
i told my friend about this and he said, āSex Positive Accelerationism.ā
Feb 26, 2024
The following photos are examples. another instance which belongs only to memory: I was teaching kindergarten on the UES at a point in my life which seemed to have no point but one morning I was walking from 86th street where they have enormous lavish dogs who look like they have a 401k and the sun was coruscating like entire streets were orange and I strolled past this Platonic piece of dog shit that was sculpted like a soft serve and the shit had this gleaming halo from the sun and stopped and stared at it for like 5 minutes
This song from the legend of Zelda always plays when I see these: https://youtu.be/qtCWgWUhA8s?si=f13382M560HRzX6B
Feb 4, 2024