not finished…
ins ~
• personal style
• being upfront
• live music
• physical media
• crafts/personalizing everything
• trusting your intuition
• blue eyeshadow (in a 1960s way)
• niche playlists
• talking to strangers
• pocket-sized notebooks
• pattern mixing
• spontaneous trips
• messy hair
• doing it for the memoir
outs ~
• being late
• black and white mentality
• being embarrassed
• oversharing
• toxic friendships
• diet soda
• vaping
• impulsive shopping
• dating apps
• letting myself spiral
• doing it for the plot
• fear of being perceived
IN
-creativity
-chai-der
-routines
-movement breaks
-cultivating wonder
-community organizing
-live theater
-budgeting
-making strange acquaintances
-picking up interesting rocks
-introspection
-having a laugh with friends
-baths
-the elderly
OUT
-looksmaxxing
-directing self-hatred outward
-people-pleasing
-remembering past G.P.A.s
-curated vintage t-shirts
-booktok
-using therapy speak to gossip
-identical bridesmaid dresses
-listening to playlists for nostalgia purposes
-intermittent fasting
-playing things by ear
take note: more things are in than out!
Ins:
· Free museums
· Loving your friends loudly
· Growing food at home
· Late nights making art
· Photobooths
· Tipping your servers and delivery drivers well
· Listening to a single album or artist at a time
· Movies filmed on 35mm
· NPR
· AO3
· Reading multiple books at once
· Snail mail
· Having a signature color
· Reading the credits
· Physical media
· Local coffee shops and bookstores
· Occasional drunk cigarettes while still claiming you’re not a smoker
· House shows
· Criterion channel
· Handmade gifts
· Third places
· Media literacy
· Eating whole apples
Outs:
· Podcasts about nothing
· Labeling everything as a hyper-specific aesthetic
· Overconsuming media to the point where you aren’t even paying attention to or understanding the content (I’m looking at you 150 goodreads goals, letterboxd warriors, and 3x audiobook listeners)
· Intellectual snobbery
· Capitalism
· Depop resellers
· Vegans who judge non-vegans
· Trending audios that have absolutelye nothing to do with the video
· Not knowing how to cook
· Using ai, even when you’re bored or stuck
· Fighting to the death over celebs or authors who have no clue who you are
· Hating popular things just because they’re popular (you don’t look cool!)
· Nickle and diming your friends on venmo
· Dating apps
· Spotify's pre-made playlists
· Performative activism
· Oversharing online (please bring back secrets and keep your kinks at home)
· Monetizing your hobbies
· Colleen hoover
· Clean versions of songs
· Refusing to have strong opinions on anything
· Making smoking pot your entire personality
· Vaping
· Self help books
Ins: closet liquidation, healthcare, sleep schedules, switching it up, being mysterious and esoteric while retaining whimsy
Outs: oversharing, t-shirts, alcohol, indecision, being scared of books, spending money for no reason