Nicole Stawiarski

LEO (7/23 – 8/22) Your new life chapter comes in the form of a person, Leo. There is someone you will cross paths with who could really use a person like you right at this very moment.

Netflix’s 1899 is a peace-offering to an audience formerly known as “disgruntled OA fans”, once dismissed by the streaming giant on the alleged basis of niche taste but who now seem to represent a growing demand for an emerging genre with a business case.

Sexual harassment is wrong—period, end of sentence. No matter who is in the position of power. As a woman, it is mentally and emotionally difficult to process the sheer amount of offenses exposed in past years by the media and later reinterpreted in art. We have documentaries on the USA gymnastics abuse scandal, The Morning Show, and Bombshell. I’m not sure Tár was a necessary addition or brought anything new or of value to the conversation. 

It is the impact I do have, however small, that I turn my focus to. The impact of an average, ordinary person.

But while I can divvy everything up into silly little periods to fit this equation, I know it’s nothing more than a joke for entertainment’s sake, because seven years is such an arbitrary marker of change. 

What makes me feel sexy is anything that makes me feel like me. Whoever it is I want to be that day.

I don’t think I’d be able to pick you out from anyone else meeting that description.

I’ve never been good at saying things I didn’t mean.

Gemini: Gemini, you’ve been treating love like a haunted house. Sometimes closing your eyes and hiding, sometimes trying to sprint your way through to the end.

I miss them when it’s sunny too, and when the weather is just kind of blah, and I’ve learned that any time is an appropriate time to be sad.

If we never stopped to ask ourselves how we feel about our own lives, we’d just float on by, passively, down a lazy river free from any decisions.

You were doing that thing, though, where you pretend like you’re not good with words, even though we both know what a joke that is.

So when an extrovert loves you, they will want to know and love it all.

I didn’t matter here either, or any of my worries. I was just a girl walking down the street.

I didn’t know what to call it at first. But I felt it. Almost right away.

“Remember, if logic were all there really was to the world, then surely all men would ride sidesaddle.”