Writer, editor, Midwesterner. Reach me: hughesk3@alumni.vcu.edu. She/her.
Joined May 2009
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We’re all just silver-faced War Boys screaming “WITNESS ME!” while we charge each day into the certain annihilation of everyday life as a human
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May 21
Sinus pressure so throbbingly intense the exploding heads on The Boys are starting to look like an appealing treatment option for relief
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May 19
women in STEM (suffering, turmoil, emptiness, malaise)
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May 11
Unpopular opinion but I hate trying to sleep during a thunderstorm with the wind and rain lashing the windows and the thunder cracking, and I do not understand/will not listen to arguments for why it’s supposedly relaxing. I always wake up sore from tensing my body all night.
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May 10
One summer my steady casual hookup told me his biggest crush was Lil Debbie and at first I was like wtf and then I got strangely mesmerized and starting having sex dreams about her and slowly drifted away from him… what a time.
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Am I losing my edge or were this year’s Met Gala outfits pretty much all…really good?
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New Kacey Musgraves album is so gooooood. Her best songwriting since Golden Hour. Good Kacey is meant to be listened to alone or with other girls on a casual sunny day spent in/by any form of Texas water: river, pool, lake, gulf beach, nothing fancy, no pretense, prob stoned.
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Apr 27
This right here
Apr 27
If they’re gonna just throw billions of dollars at music biopics the time has come for the Our Band Could Be Your Life prestige anthology series
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❛ The poem is the device through which the ordinary world is seen in a new way - engaging, compelling, even beautiful.
Poet Ted Kooser, born #OTD in 1939.
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Apr 27
Imagine not thinking humans were born to party when the inside of our cells look like this
We really got a whole universe inside of us 🧬
This reconstruction turns molecular data into a 3D scene using X-ray crystallography & electron microscopy. With light & transparency, it feels like you’re looking inside the cell, not at it. It works because it’s based on real data, making complex processes easier to see and understand.
[📸: via/ EvanIngersoll, GaelMcGill]
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Apr 26
Put me down as a Testament of Ann Lee evangelist as of tonight
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Apr 26
Also Shakering seems like an incredible workout. Like I would take that class at the Y.
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Apr 14
The cousins my mom pretty much mutually raised with my aunt, who were basically extra siblings to me, who she loved and supported like they were her own kids — thy didn’t come to her memorial service. I’ll never get over that.
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Apr 13
feeling really really out of control. i bet picking at my skin will help. i definitely won’t regret this
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Apr 13
My siblings and I at the chaotic memorial for my mom/celebration of life/midwestern backyard party during interrogations by distant relatives and family friends who barely or never at all showed up for my mom when she was dying
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Apr 10
My dad scheduled both my mom’s memorial events during my period — not his fault, to be clear, he just made them a month apart — and he and my brother and sister are over here prodding me like “why are you in such a bad mood, why are you so tired?” 😂😫
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Apr 10
Like, Shark Week and Dead Mom Week have overlapped, what do you want from me?
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I’ve always enjoyed flying. Today, I’m flying with my family. Now I understand why people hate flying.
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Sexually straight but culturally gay? That’s just Gianmarco Soresi
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