Hump Day Quickie: Waitlisted Wasteland
Plus: Smutty Hockey Drama, The Other Rapinoe, Walrus Cuddles, Mental Health Metaphors in Winnie The Pooh, and Existential Crises Cakes 🏒⚽️🦭🍯🎂
Welcome to your mid-week quickie! This is your bonus, even-less-strings-attached newsletter to get you through the week.
What’s On My Mind
I, and everyone I know, are officially waitlisted for Taylor Swift’s Toronto tour dates. If you got a code, kindly unsubscribe. If you’re as miserable as the rest of us, here’s how I’ve been distracting myself:
The Smutty Hockey Drama Melting Down BookTok 🏒
A bunch of readers are on thin ice after getting too horny over a Seattle Kraken player. Proof that truth is stranger than fiction.
“With that, an outbreak of seemingly harmless thirst became an exercise in parasocial relationships and corporate greed.”
I Want To Be Good But I Am Bad - Help? 🍯
I’m newly obsessed with Alex Dobrenko’s blog, and the below quote should show you why:
With science, we now know that we are, in fact, made up of a mixture of each and every animal from Winnie the Pooh.
There is Winnie the cute addict, Piglet the anxious wreck, Tigger the ADHD manic depressive, Owl the alcoholic intellectual with dyslexia, Rabbit the narcissist with OCD, and last but certainly also least, by his own approximation, Eeyore the depressive donkey.
Which combination are you?
Megan Rapinoe and the USWNT are out of the World Cup (by a millimetre), but her twin sister has her own story to tell:
“Megan would go on to win Olympic gold and two World Cups, and become an LGBTQIA+ icon. Rachael would find herself back in Redding, making bananas Foster every night for over a year.”
Serotonin Boost!
This lost walrus calf is on a strict care regimen of 24/7 cuddles 🦭💕
One-Liners
The best Era’s Tour ‘fit so far🧣
Simone Biles is back, baby! 🤸♀️
Find a virtual study buddy to help you focus 👩💻
Existential crises cakes to brighten (or question) your day 🎂
On my reading list: The Story of Art Without Men 🖼
Want to support more art? My (very talented) friend’s theatre company is hosting a fundraiser 🎭
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