Do You Have Main Character Syndrome?

Do You Have Main Character Syndrome?

You're walking home with headphones in, the light is doing that orange thing on the buildings, and you catch yourself pretending a camera is tracking you from across the street. If you've done this, congratulations, you have at least a mild case of main character energy. The internet turned the phrase into a joke and …

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Are You the Plot Twist or the Main Story?

Are You the Plot Twist or the Main Story?

Every friend group is secretly a TV show. There's someone everyone builds plans around, someone who announces on a random Wednesday that they've quit their job and are moving to Lisbon, and someone who has been quietly in love with the same person for three years while everyone pretends not to notice. You've probably already …

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Which Year Would You Love to Live In?

Which Year Would You Love to Live In?

Ask anyone which year they'd live in if they could pick, and they almost never hesitate, because they're not choosing a date so much as a whole mood, candlelight or neon, a ballroom or a disco floor, a handwritten letter or a phone cord stretched all the way to the bedroom. Ballrooms and Brand-New Streetlights …

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Are You More 70s, 80s, 90s or Y2K?

Are You More 70s, 80s, 90s or Y2K?

Plenty of people have a very strong opinion about a decade they were not alive for, and that has never once made the opinion feel any less real to them. Somebody who was not born until well after the last mixtape got made can still feel, deep in their bones, that they are a nineties …

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Which Retro Aesthetic Were You Born For?

Which Retro Aesthetic Were You Born For?

Give yourself ten minutes with a box of old family photos and you'll notice one decade's look keeps making you stop, the beaded dresses, the polka dots, the flannel, the butterfly clips, and that's usually the aesthetic you were quietly born for. From Beaded Bags to Butterfly Clips Art Deco Glamour is the most deliberate …

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