Vibes > Plot
Plus: Justice for Lane Kim Gen Z's It Boy, Yearnposting, and Being 13 📚⚖️😎💀💘
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 took a week off because I was sick (ew), and now my reading list is out of control.
Sending everyone good, healthy, non-COVID-contracting vibes:
Weekly Reads:
A tough essay from Anastasia Selby on her relationship with her body, her mother, and beauty.
“When I had conflicts with other children she asked me if the popular girls in my class, the skinny ones, had problems making and keeping friends. We both already knew the answer.”
Who Needs Plot When You Have Vibes? 📚
Exploring a sub-genre of books that still very much have a plot.
“The book finds the reader it is right for, and that’s an incredible gift. If I enjoyed writing it, someone out there would enjoy reading it, and that’s the right reader for the book.”
Yearnposting is Just Another Symptom of our Collective Malaise 💀
No plot, just vibes…only in real life! “Rat girl summer has endeth, so cometh yearn girl fall.”
Being 13 💘
The New York Times followed three normal 13-year-old girls over the course of one school year. Not only does this piece provide insight into the inner workings of modern-day middle-schoolers, but it also has this perfect description of what it means to be a teenager: “Eating a Lunchable while at a fancy hair appointment.”
A collection of micro-creepiness from a plethora of dudes. Fair warning: The yuck factor is high.
“There is no main event, there is no assault, there is just the slow, unrelenting hacking away at my sense of self and self-worth.”
Adam Sandler is Gen Z’s Definitive It Boy 😎
This whole piece is quotable, but I’ve read the opening paragraph about 328546230 times:
“Among the pantheon of Gen Z fashion icons, there are some fairly predictable patterns. You have your nepo babies (Sofia Richie Grainge, Hailey Bieber), your Pete Davidson exes (Ariana Grande, Chase Sui Wonders), your nepo babies-slash-Pete Davidson exes (Kaia Gerber, Margaret Qualley, Cazzie David). But another name, the one-of-these-things-is-not-like-the-others name, has also loomed large in terms of cool-kid outfit inspo for the last few years. I’m speaking, of course, of comedy legend and bona fide style inspiration Adam Sandler (who also happens to be a close personal friend of Pete Davidson).”
One-Liners:
📣Scream it from the rooftops: Lane Kim deserves justice!
🏈 FYI. Taylor Swift is much much bigger than the NFL
😍 OMG. 13-year-old me is screaming over this TikTok
🙏Thank God. The hosts of What Not To Wear are officially friends again
🤖 The future is now! These women’s boyfriends cheated with scam sex bots
Serotonin Boost!
My inner child.…
Last Thought:
Happy World Animal Day!