I don't think I'm going to send out a great deal of submissions this year... I have some excellent reasons for putting that side of things on pause.
Come In From The Cold: A History of My Relationship With Christmas
What changed me from hating Christmas to being a celebrant? Why did I hate Christmas in the first place? How can you act to make the festive season as joyful for those around you as it is for yourself?
Rejection, Endless Rejection
Rejections are a fact of life. Rejection comes in friendship, work, creativity… and my god does it come hard and fast when you're trying.
Social Media Life Hacks
Here are the steps I will be taking to improve my feed and step back from social media - without deleting my accounts.
Ersatz
A poem inspired by my Starbucks order. CW - eating disorders.
Understanding Indulgence: How To Care For Yourself
My conception of self-care is of two poles, servicing more of our emotions than frivolity or luxury by itself. The two forms of self-care are indulgence and moderation. These two are polar opposites, but in order to truly care for ourselves, we need to understand the role of indulgence and its effects on us, not blindly indulge.
Protected: Buchenwald.
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Contemporary Female Pop Musicians As Mental Health Motivation.
Stan culture doesn’t mean turning your back on the problematic things a person’s image embodies. It means being inspired by what a person’s image opens up to you, taking what it means in the popular consciousness and seeing how it can send you in a direction that makes your life better.
Pascal’s Wager and panic attacks.
Pascal's use of decision mathematics was new to me, and truly fascinating: it made me think of predestination as a mathematical probability rather than (an impossible) certainty, which is radically liberating when applied to everyday life.
Late Romantic 