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This one is kind of a “no shit” because people have sent letters for like centuries but I think right now at least in America it’s seen as a novelty. it’s so hard to take true time to myself - time that isn’t work or browsing Reddit or fucking around on iPhone or playing video games but time to sitting down to hand write a letter to a dear loved one makes me consider what is true and what is rotten in my life. The “form“ of letter with like a start middle and end and meandering along the way is hard to express in other forms. Like are you gonna text your mom all that shit?
Feb 1, 2024
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Physical letters aren't just for corny love notes and eviction notices! They can be a really good way of communicating things that are too long for texting but too personal to say aloud. I feel like the convenience of texting can be deceptively dishonest, it’s often more genuine to let something bleed out on a page. It also just feels cool as fuck to write one, I like to imagine I’m some aristocrat main character in a period piece. Maybe light a candle if you want to be extra pretentious.
Jan 27, 2024
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If I haven't spoken to my friend in at least three months, I start to ask if they want to send letters. If you don't communicate for months or years, you might as well send letters: they're practically just as fast but with depth and physicality! Who doesn't love some paper treasures! Plus, it provides a Victorian-drama level of yearning in waiting to continue a conversation. There is nothing I have savored more than checking for a reply after sending a letter. I open my mailbox every Sunday. I am aware of this error in logic, but I love it every time I do it. I am a child again, and I am joyfully impatient. Not only is it mail, but it's mail from a friend: the best kind.
Jan 26, 2024
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I love hand-writing a letter. the delayed gratification of it, talking about anything and nothing, decorating it with cartoons and drawings and stickers. Sending little extras and photographs with tiny micro-playlists scrawled out on the back of it. It takes at least an hour to craft a good letter, one worth receiving and replying to, and it's intimate to think about someone nonstop for that long. I just love that form of communication.
Mar 4, 2024
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this is a great, super durable, simple, clean, juicy, swaggy pen body that takes a ton of refill types. no nonsense. PLEASE check it out but you have to import it from Japan via ebay for like $18 which is still cheap for a nice pen. I fill it with Pentel Energel 0.5 mm refills, the best pen refill god ever made. Smooth, not too sharp but still precise, doesn't smudge...
Feb 1, 2024
I miss her so much. Discontinued in the US in 2022. If you never got to try this I pity you. Might be available if u live outside the US.
Jan 30, 2024
I hate that subreddits and shitty corporate owned wikis replaced fan sites and fan forums, with a few exceptions. I got banned from the Animal Crossing Community Forums for telling someone I was only 11 years old and that they shouldn’t be so mean to me!!!
unrelated read Kirby Informer site they’re bringing th swag back i definitely do NOT write for them.
Jan 31, 2024