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✨TRENDS FOR WINTER 2022-23✨ ❄️Capes. Or a

✨TRENDS FOR WINTER 2022-23✨

❄️Capes. Or anything that allows you to look like a rather shapeless blob but still look presentable. My cape-like article in this photo is exhibit A.

❄️Seasonal depression. Yep, she’s back for us again and no matter how much we try to outsmart her grip with vitamin D supplements and daylight lamps, she’s there to cuddle with us and suck the positivity from the room like a dementor.

❄️Group Raclette dinners with friends to save money and stay warm.

❄️Putting off regular health appointments and getting stressed about it but not doing anything about it.

❄️Screaming “Hiiiya!” and acting out a karate chop like Miss Piggy whenever a friend says something shady to you.

❄️Watching our favorite childhood movies for nostalgia, but feeling disappointed because it just doesn’t hit the same.

❄️If someone compliments you, responding with “Yeah I started that rumor.”

Did I miss anything??

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Incognito mode so the Sunday Scaries don’t recog

Incognito mode so the Sunday Scaries don’t recognize me 👀

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Obsessed with the results 😍 Updating my LinkedI

Obsessed with the results 😍 Updating my LinkedIn now ✍🏻

📸: @hannahteslin

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Hey Upper East Siders (of the Alster). Gossip Girl

Hey Upper East Siders (of the Alster). Gossip Girl here. As a US American and basic görl who loves Halloween, I feel it is only fair to share these ghoulish thoughts with you.
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I’ve been thinking about Halloween lately…All Hallow’s Eve. The one day of the year it’s socially acceptable to play dress-up (plus Karneval, if you’re into that). The only question is, who do you want to be? There are costumes to make Manuels feel like monsters or turn Annikas into angels.
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Like all good things the witching hour must come to an end. True natures are revealed. Tricks are turned into treats. And taking off costumes is as much fun as putting them on. Except for little girls who forget that Halloween is only one night. They wear their costumes for so long pretty soon they can’t even remember who they were before they put them on.
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Until next time. You know you love me. XOXO
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📚BOOKS I’VE READ RECENTLY📚 My last two re

📚BOOKS I’VE READ RECENTLY📚

My last two reads were pretty THICK. 👁👄👁

📚 Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters

From what I’ve heard and read, this book is quite polarizing. It explores a lot of questions surrounding womanhood, motherhood, fatherhood, queer parenting, the trans experience, and relationships. It was at some times difficult to read because the characters kept (almost purposefully) making decisions that they knew would make them miserable. Despite the many depressing moments, I enjoyed this book because of its complex dialogue about the above-mentioned topics. I would liken it a bit to Succession, where none of the characters are really likable, but it’s more about the flawed relationships between them and the conversations they have. I learned much more about the trans experience, for which I am grateful. 🫶🏻

⭐️7/10

📚 The Institute by Stephen King

This was a pretty messed up book, but I couldn’t stop reading anyway. It was a bit of a slow build in the beginning but gathered steam. It follows two characters, but mostly focused on 12-year-old Luke who is suddenly kidnapped by a secret force and made to do weird experiments with other kids in a prison, known as ‘The Institute’. It’s kind of like X-Men meets Stranger Things and I really enjoyed the character development (with over 500 pages, there was plenty of time to do so 👀).

I would recommend it if you like some of Stephen King’s other work, or if you like a paranormal thriller/horror/mystery/science fiction.

⭐️ 8/10

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