emphatic YES to all of this! I also think pinterest can be so helpful for keeping track of things you like from *outside* of the app – I love using the browser extension to upload random clothing or inspo photos I find while shopping instead of clogging up my phone with screenshots, and this process has really helped me stop paying attention to the explore feed.
i wasn’t going to comment initially because I was so thrown off by the variety of your content (considering how i usually take a double before trying something new) although I am an extroverted introvert too hehe, but god i had so much fun reading this!!! thank you for taking up space on here and making my reading worthwhile!! sending you love <33
the snoopy keychain photo just reminded me—i started reading your substack a couple days ago, just now finished reading every single one lmao. the fact that i was on the train today and saw someone wearing a snoopy shirt and thought of you. it’s so insane how much writing connects people, and how i have no idea who you are other than what i read in your writing but i know you like snoopy. lol. words are so crazy!!! life is crazy!!!
Joseph A made a black shirt that looks nice and drapes well and doesn’t collect cat hair, it’s just incredible! Black is usually such a chore to wear because every little piece of lint or dust clings to it and shows up, but that Joseph A shirt is a lifesaver! I wonder if the sequin cardigan is like that too 💭
I completely agree about Pinterest! I got a subscription last year to Architectural Digest and that alone was so creatively nourishing! I think it’s good to switch things up! If anyone has any recs for good print magazines, I’d love to hear them!
YES!!! I love watching movies by myself, but almost never do it for the exact reason you listed. And while I love the cinema and definitely want to go more, what I really want to do is stay home and stream some older movies I missed out on when they were showing, so that I can pause whenever I like and make notes.
People-watching too, I love doing that. I don't live in NYC but Brighton UK is an amazing place to see people wearing outlandish things (I wrote about that in my own newsletter a while ago).
As for online inspiration - I'm not on Pinterest but still use tumblr in 2024, because there is no algorithm! It feels like a much more natural Internet, and I follow so many fascinating unique people on there who all post their own unique collections of things. I recommend.
emphatic YES to all of this! I also think pinterest can be so helpful for keeping track of things you like from *outside* of the app – I love using the browser extension to upload random clothing or inspo photos I find while shopping instead of clogging up my phone with screenshots, and this process has really helped me stop paying attention to the explore feed.
I loveee the photo gallery at the end
1000% yes to all of this!! Another big source of inspo for me (that is kinda similar to pinterest I guess) is my screenshot folder
I think I found my new favourite newsletter
as a corporate girlie, “energetic dividends” is such a cool word haha
this is incredible! thank you for writing this, loveee all the photos <3
i wasn’t going to comment initially because I was so thrown off by the variety of your content (considering how i usually take a double before trying something new) although I am an extroverted introvert too hehe, but god i had so much fun reading this!!! thank you for taking up space on here and making my reading worthwhile!! sending you love <33
the snoopy keychain photo just reminded me—i started reading your substack a couple days ago, just now finished reading every single one lmao. the fact that i was on the train today and saw someone wearing a snoopy shirt and thought of you. it’s so insane how much writing connects people, and how i have no idea who you are other than what i read in your writing but i know you like snoopy. lol. words are so crazy!!! life is crazy!!!
if the stores that had the little leopard and the sequin cardigan happen to be in NYC can you share which stores?! i need to visit them
That strokes song is permanent inspiration 💗
the extroverted introvert part is so real omg
Joseph A made a black shirt that looks nice and drapes well and doesn’t collect cat hair, it’s just incredible! Black is usually such a chore to wear because every little piece of lint or dust clings to it and shows up, but that Joseph A shirt is a lifesaver! I wonder if the sequin cardigan is like that too 💭
I completely agree about Pinterest! I got a subscription last year to Architectural Digest and that alone was so creatively nourishing! I think it’s good to switch things up! If anyone has any recs for good print magazines, I’d love to hear them!
YES!!! I love watching movies by myself, but almost never do it for the exact reason you listed. And while I love the cinema and definitely want to go more, what I really want to do is stay home and stream some older movies I missed out on when they were showing, so that I can pause whenever I like and make notes.
People-watching too, I love doing that. I don't live in NYC but Brighton UK is an amazing place to see people wearing outlandish things (I wrote about that in my own newsletter a while ago).
As for online inspiration - I'm not on Pinterest but still use tumblr in 2024, because there is no algorithm! It feels like a much more natural Internet, and I follow so many fascinating unique people on there who all post their own unique collections of things. I recommend.
Thank you for writing! 🖤
TO CHLOÉ I BOW DOWNNNNN
That’s so true about pinterest and pictures.. they can only do so much as a source of inspo