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  • Spellbound
    Map Of Emotion

    Spellbound

    March 12, 2019August 28, 2023
    5 Comments

    Ever meet someone you’ve felt inexorably drawn to? Have you ever been spellbound?

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  Light Viewing: February in the City – Part II
    City | Fiction

    Light Viewing: February in the City – Part II

    March 7, 2019February 25, 2025
    3 Comments

    She says the city doesn’t look quite real to her. So many people. Nobody knows anyone else.

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  • 39 looks like this: Ramya on Versova divider.
    Body & Sex | Home & Identity

    39 Looks Like This

    March 4, 2019August 28, 2023
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    Don’t erase my history and tell me that it’s a compliment. 39 looks like this.

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  • Kiss the dice
    Body & Sex | City | Map Of Emotion | Politics & Feminism | Relationships

    Kiss Kiss💋

    March 1, 2019February 25, 2025
    4 Comments

    Do you remember your last kiss? Everyone remembers their first. But kisses lose significance as we get older.

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  Laying The Best Laid Plans To Rest
    Map Of Emotion

    Laying The Best Laid Plans To Rest

    March 1, 2019October 25, 2024
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    Some of us like making plans. We are list makers, time trackers, note takers.

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  Storytellers On The Streets – Musicians & Me
    Map Of Emotion | Pop Culture

    Storytellers On The Streets – Musicians & Me

    February 16, 2019February 25, 2025
    1 Comment

    Gully Boy was rife with triggers. Musicians have hurt me. But we’re storytellers together.

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  • Lone tree beside a single broken mill wall
    City | Map Of Emotion | Politics & Feminism | Pop Culture | Roving I

    Conversations with a tree: February In The City – Part 1

    February 15, 2019March 29, 2025
    1 Comment

    I spotted this tree at the junction of a rapidly disappearing Mumbai and the greedy new city emerging in its place.

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  Where I Regret Doing The Right Thing
    Body & Sex | City | Map Of Emotion | Politics & Feminism | Pop Culture | Relationships

    Where I Regret Doing The Right Thing

    February 15, 2019March 28, 2023
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    It was respite from the morning’s fight, a common occurrence in the horror story I lived in. It didn’t feel right.

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  • disloyal man with jealous girlfriend looking at another girl meme
    Map Of Emotion | Politics & Feminism | Relationships

    The Jealousy Object – And How To Deal With Being It

    February 9, 2019September 10, 2025
    1 Comment

    I do not fight territory battles over people because people are not property. The Jealousy Game, I won’t play. How do I deal with others who want to drag me in?

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  Feeling in HDR
    Map Of Emotion

    Feeling in HDR

    February 9, 2019September 16, 2023
    0 Comments

    Do you remember that place? A time when every emotion was a Picasso painting. A place where every feeling was in HDR.

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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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