Jessica Blankenship

The usual body-shaming, unrealistic beauty ideals, and the Cult of Perpetual Superficial Betterment all come together in a New Years media fury of headlines aimed at telling you what’s wrong with your body, how to fix it, and how much happier you’ll be once you do.

If you see them literally having sex with each other, there’s at least a chance they have some unresolved romantic feelings.

It’s…this is my Vietnam, you guys. It was scary and brutal and traumatic and it’s really hard for me to talk about and there’s no possible way you can relate unless you were there.

On Wednesdays we wear pink

You’ve gone from drinking different things every time to you go out to having “your drink” and rarely deviating.

In any room, theirs was the face that loved and got you when no one else ever could quite as completely, and a lot who didn’t get you at all. You believed you would always be that way together. Until one day, you’re not.

I really cannot deal with another “insider’s guide to Atlanta” that tells you to go to the Varsity. Sit down, amateurs. Whoever wrote that sh*t probably lives in Cobb County. Here’s a small sampling of what is truly up.

We are the best versions of ourselves when we are doing what we love, not when we are trying to deliberately convince someone to love us.