mar 28 2019 - direct, direct!

like reverse, reverse! but

[someone make that cha cha slide remix, ty]

after over 3 weeks of seeming to go backwards (like why?!), mercury stations direct today!

and i’m probably in the minority when I say that, on the whole, it’s been good for me. it probably helped that mercury has been hanging out in pisces. (feel free to hate me for this): the trains had never been kinder to me and that’s just one light (but impt!) example of feeling in sync with the things.

but when the sun shifted to #ariesszn, this ease started to crumble a bit. all the bumps in the road became super present & annoying where they had faded into background noise easily in prior weeks.

so the easy narrative might be that this big sun shift was a small test on how the patience and smoothness I had found in the dailyness of tryna be (feel free to stop reading, like now lol). idk if I ‘passed’ if this was the thing

an even cheesier thread to surface is how these big/small/medium shifts are putting in sharper relief my attunements to myself, the things near me, and everything else that revolves around me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ;) ;) ;)

light a fire y’all, it’s Aries season!

[gift: Jack Jack from The Incredibles, literally lighting on fire]

most nights: (this slushie) was written in the daytime)

E. Alex Jung @e_alexjung

writing good sentences as i lay down to sleep is TRULY my most annoying quality

When strangers find out i’m a dancer: “Wow that’s so cool” 😏

✰ benedict nguyen @xbennyboo

"In other words, are all dancers really just horny, deranged murderers?" - @rachel_handler as a primary source, my response is: , um....

vulture.comWhy Are There So Many Movies About Horny, Insane Dancers Killing Each Other?We talk to real dancers about whether or not they are all just lusty, deranged murderers.

when the astrology is correct:

𝚕𝚒𝚋𝚛𝚊 ༺♡༻ 𝚚𝚞𝚎𝚎𝚗 @c00lcvnt

what zodiac sign is the worst? i’m curious. in my opinion..... men.

can’t fix the system by telling people what to do

• when money advice is worthless b/c money’s broken, Talia Jane

• and queer eye is cute, but like toxic, lazy masculinity is boring, Hazel Cills

some book thoughts

• Katy Waldman on YA books and cancel culture

• (speaking of) Ani Bundel on J.K. Rowling’s endless retcon’s ugh

• and just finished Chemistry by Weike Wang, which reminded me in some ways of So Many Olympic Exertions by Anelise Chen, which I read last year. Read Larissa Pham’s quick drawing of parallels on failure between the two in a longer response to Severance by Ling Ma (previously s/o’d in this slushie)

goodbye march 🔥🔥

benedict