Word Vomit
#thot 4: from a startup, a film set, a zoom class, depression, the ocean
“I cannot come to this party, I already spilled all cool facts I know in the last one”
“I’m very bad with kids man. No seriously. I have 2 of my own. And I’m very bad with them”
“Charts are sexy”
“Your newsletter says kishmish WITH A CHERRY EMOJI but my brain thinks you're so smart I questioned whether it was a cherry at all and if I've lived 23 years of my life not knowing what a kishmish is, fuck you”
“Woke up with anxiety again, when will I wake up with someone’s hands on my bum?’
“Yeah, these F&O boys were the NFT boys before NFTs were a thing”
“Every time I see a frill sleeve, I think…‘her’”
“Linguistic reappropriation, reclamation, or resignification is the cultural process by which a group reclaims words or artifacts that were previously used in a way disparaging of that group.”
“It’s a great newsletter but I just think that you’re reducing its value by calling it something that literally means slut”
“I am not reducing my content’s value by calling it slut. I’m bringing respect and value to slut by creating content that enriches.”
“You don’t have the power to reclaim a word”
“Reappropriation of ethnic and sexual slurs starts as an act of bravado by a few of the oppressed, then may become an empowering mechanism for a much wider community. It’s pleasingly ironic that those discriminated against have learned the Orwellian trick employed by the state and the establishment of hijacking everyday language (as in ‘doublespeak’) for their own nefarious purposes.”
“Thank god I have the power to cut people off my life”
“You know what the mental health advice would be in metaverse? Still going to therapy”
“The collective salacious appetite for scandal comes from the kind of 'othering' of dysfunctionality. It's much easier to pretend that this happens to other people and it doesn't happen to you”
“When I choose to rest, my computer also rests”
“Holy hell, I love myself a good problem to solve”
**giggles** “my father got diagnosed with brain tumor” **giggles**
“I am so miserable I think only that naval guy can motivate me now”
“I gave you an idea. Now, I don’t get why you need me to ‘execute it!’!!???”
“But isn’t a meme a full-blown conversation?”
“Venture capital is like startup cocaine”
“I would have bought you the kaavyya.eth domain as a birthday gift but I’m broke”
“Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet - needs to be stolen”
“The altcoin fanatism is what people call euphemistic community building. That is not what we call a community-building here”
“Be wary of the girls in the restroom”
“The internet no longer reflects the offline world. It now determines it”
“I can't believe I managed my time poorly and now I have to bear the consequences of it”
“Oh no, we are those girls in the restroom”
“The ocean is addictive”
“On a scale of 1 to me, how hot were the girls there?”
“Thank god Diwali is over. I can get back to living in a mess again. I can be me again”
“Upskilling myself is not cutting it. Maybe I need some love?”
“We're not creatives. We're designers. It's different”
“The two things detrimental to your humor is - therapy and having a job”
“Main bhi ban gaya community manager!”
“We all have a temperamental desire to not look desperate, which bleeds into our religious desire to not be slutty”
“There is no backstage on the internet”
“Help build a 0-1 startup, they said. You'll learn a lot, they said. You'll cry a lot too, that they didn't say!”
“All my life, I've been leaving myself breadcrumbs. It didn't matter that I didn't always know what I was walking towards”
“My cup's been inside of me for more than 24 hrs now. I could literally get a toxic shock syndrome but I'm too sad to move”
“Hello? why would you keep calling us a family? Have you seen how dysfunctional my family is?”
“You know there's only one rule to this (and every) relationship, Kaavyya —never go to bed mad at each other”
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