Just when you think the details in this story about a teenage TikTok star and the fan who arrived with a shotgun at her family home can’t get worse, they do (wait til you get to the part where the teen TikToker’s parents let her sell photos to her stalker 🤯)
Tavi Gevinson (RIP, Rookie) interviews Stevie Nicks
A fascinating look inside a platonic life relationship (“Last September, my partner Renee moved from Singapore to Los Angeles so we could start a life together. We're platonic life partners, a relationship that combines qualities from friendship, marriage, and polyamory. We are each other’s primary partners, but we don’t have sex (even hugs are sporadic and occasional), and we date other people.”)
How a book becomes a book
Okay so are we all mentally ill or just unhappy???
Thoroughly enjoyed this interview with Sex and the City writer Candace Bushnell
Here’s something that will make you feel old: it’s been 10 years since Carly Rae Jepsen’s Call Me Maybe became THE cultural moment of 2012. This piece asks people to remember where they were when they first heard the boppy, synchronised opening notes and it’s incredibly nostalgic. We recommend reading while cuing up your best Carly Rae Jepsen playlist
This story about an influencer who tricked dozens of people into working for a fake digital design agency is WILD
What happens if your friends don’t like your partner?
Most of your life will happen in the grey spaces between bliss and heartbreak
If you’ve spent any time at all in the comments section of the New York Times Cooking site, you’ll die over this
You’ll want to bookmark this Twitter thread of free and cheap things that will make a meaningful difference to your stress levels
Sheila Heti on writing about grief
Annnddddd… meet Dobby the aardvark, obsessed with this 70s dinner party Instagram account, how Tiktok is turning into Tumblr, very into the changing of the guard at the India-Pakistan border, a mega thread of British culture, iPhone featured photos are the WORST, wise marriage advice, adult acne in comic form, BOM outlook signals a wetter-than-average autumn, memories of how great the internet was in the 90s, when your boss requires you to be “online” all day, it’s 2006 and you’re going for a drive to listen to your new CD, how age was calculated in the bush, and Kath and Kim in 2022 (THE BEST!!!)
