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    A Beautiful Man

    February 1, 2013March 24, 2023
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    I think it would be fair to say that in my choices in the opposite sex, I’ve been a ‘brains’ person, a girl who liked geeks. In those personality quiz thingies, my answers have leant in the direction of Einstein & Socrates rather than Brad Pitt & Adonis. My men…

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    Home & Identity | Politics & Feminism | Relationships

    I feel like a character in someone else’s coming-of-age story

    January 16, 2013March 24, 2023
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    This character surfaces in several instances of pop culture.

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    I Wear: Hipster In Progress

    January 14, 2013October 26, 2025
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    ‘Hipster’ is a term I see thrown about in the Western pop-culture sources that I frequent. I’m yet to fully understand the meaning of this, especially in the Indian context so let’s just say my perceptions are evolving. From what I see, hipster isn’t a complimentary term. On the other…

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  • Map Of Emotion | Poetry

    When Love Becomes A Game

    January 10, 2013September 17, 2023
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    I’ve done this so many times,I know how it goesAnd while it never stops hurtingThe acrid taste starts to seem familiar,even pleasurable  for its warmthIt tastes just like wine. Heartbreak doesn’t sting like it used to,I know this time,I’ll live through it, like all those othersIt’s odd to get used…

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    Date A Man Who Knows Women

    January 7, 2013March 24, 2023
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    * Inspired by Date A Girl Who Reads. Date a guy who has sisters. Preferably a middle child, so he knows what it’s like to look up to as well as look over (sometimes overlook) women. Hope that they’re the kind of women you’d like because it’ll be like having…

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    REVIEW: The Sandman 7: Brief Lives – The Nuances of Metafiction

    December 21, 2012April 25, 2024
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    Review of Neil Gaiman’s Brief Lives from The Sandman series. Delirium, Desire, and Destruction take center stage in this metafictional masterpiece.

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    Politics & Feminism

    Ms.Judgemental vs. Mrs.Judgemental

    December 18, 2012September 28, 2023
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    It’s war on the Smug Marrieds and I’m bringing my judgemental nukes.

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  I Wear: Lady Red
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    I Wear: Lady Red

    December 17, 2012February 25, 2025
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    I built a whole look around a red accessory.

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    Snuff-Chuck Palahniuk: Like Eating Crushed Eggshells

    December 11, 2012March 24, 2023
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    A review of Chuck Palahniuk’s ‘SNUFF’

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    A Eulogy For My Grandmother

    December 2, 2012October 9, 2023
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    Yesterday was the condolence function that culminates the grieving period. This is the eulogy I wrote for my grandmother.

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  • IdeaSmith on A Post-40 Primer On Friendship With Men: Hope & Betrayal: “@Soumya: Thank you for reading and commenting. Yes, I’ve had a good male role model. Unfortunately for me, I’ve encountered…”
  • IdeaSmith on Trusting My Judgement Again: Thanks Meena Kandasamy & The Rookie: “@krist0ph3r: ‘Judgement as mental shorthand’ is a great way to look at it. It’s narrow to think of judgementalism as…”
  • Soumya on A Post-40 Primer On Friendship With Men: Hope & Betrayal: “Hi Ramya, Firstly, my congratulations on a well written post. It didn’t pull its punches. Secondly, it was lovely to…”
  • krist0ph3r on Trusting My Judgement Again: Thanks Meena Kandasamy & The Rookie: “Wow, that was a lot to process and at some point it got too much for me to handle reading.…”
  • IdeaSmith on When Did Reading Become Performance?: “@Sid: Oh god, you’re right.”
  • Sid on When Did Reading Become Performance?: “I think the Poser Reader sentiment also comes from the branding reading as a hobby has had. Successful people say…”
  • Topher on Lit Crush: Gabrielle Zevin ‘s Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow, The Storied Life of A.J.Fikry: “I too struggle greatly with problematic people who make great things. As a child Bill Cosby brought YEARS of joy…”
  • IdeaSmith on A Non-Medical View Of The Uterus: Blood, Babies & Hysteria: “@XXfan: Yes, it appears to be a legal requirement for the hospital to show the removed parts to kin, probably…”
  • Xxfan on A Non-Medical View Of The Uterus: Blood, Babies & Hysteria: “I experience with hysterectomy made me more mature.my mom had to have a hysterectomy.this was my first experience handling everything…”
  • IdeaSmith on When Did Reading Become Performance?: “@Slogan Murugan: Indeed. Books were always fascinating but this year has been about the people and spaces around books as…”

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