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emma🦈 @traumaandcompany.bsky.social · 3d

just bought the latest issue of @thedeadlands.com, looking forward to getting into this after work💀

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emma🦈 @traumaandcompany.bsky.social · 4d

absolutely loved this essay from the @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social by Tristram Fane Saunders (as I start my own literary magazine, yikes)!!

sharing my five favorite insights in the thread below👇🏽 1/3

thelondonmagazine.org/article/essa...

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The London Magazine @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social · 9d

'There’s big trouble in the world of little magazines.' — Tristram Fane Saunders

Tristram Fane Saunders on what makes 'little magazines' so fragile, why they matter and why they so often vanish without any fanfare.

Read here: thelondonmagazine.org/article/essa...

Essay | Why Magazines Fail by Tristram Fane Saunders - The London Magazine

Drawing on recent literary magazine closures, Tristram Fane Saunders asks what makes 'little magazines' so fragile, why they matter and why they so often vanish.

thelondonmagazine.org

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emma🦈 @traumaandcompany.bsky.social · Jun 2

“Anonymous eyes don’t owe me anything, unlike the ones that used to help me do my mascara.”

emma🦈 @traumaandcompany.bsky.social · May 31

“The experience of social media that involves comparing yourself to people you know is torture at best.”

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emma🦈 @traumaandcompany.bsky.social · May 30

is it possible to be a successful woman in this world without sexualizing yourself to some extent? asking for a friend..

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emma🦈 @traumaandcompany.bsky.social · Apr 2

a collection of essays I put together that is very popular right now😌

#substack #essays

10 substack essays you need to read if you feel stuck

on being brave enough to take what's yours, even if it's uncomfortable

open.substack.com

emma🦈 @traumaandcompany.bsky.social · Mar 26

ramblings about friends I’ve fallen out of touch with

#friends #substack #ladybird

to all the friends i’ve fallen out of touch with

what are you supposed to do with yourself once a little piece of you is gone?

open.substack.com

emma🦈 @traumaandcompany.bsky.social · Mar 24

in memory of my late aunt

#grief #obituary #substack

notes on grief: an obituary

how faith, voice messages, and dreams helped me grieve my aunt

open.substack.com

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emma🦈 @traumaandcompany.bsky.social · Mar 22

My favorite #quote from chapter one😌 #substack #book

emma🦈 @traumaandcompany.bsky.social · Mar 22

The first chapter of my #book is out now.

If you love stories of first love, especially unrequited love, the kind of love that consumes you when you’re too young to know better, the one you’re afraid, and sometimes ashamed, to admit is love, this is for you. #lovestory

chapter one: it was so simple in the moonlight

“Lua” by Bright Eyes

open.substack.com

emma🦈 @traumaandcompany.bsky.social · Dec 20

a personal piece that also speaks to the larger issue of women’s health and the pain we are expected to endure. even if you’ve never taken birth control, have you ever felt gaslighted for the pain that comes with being a woman?

#birthcontrol #contraception #womenshealth

we need to talk about hormonal birth control

on listening to your body, and the history of pain that is women's health

traumaandcompany.substack.com

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emma🦈 @traumaandcompany.bsky.social · Dec 6

in defense of the e-reader…

(p.s. if amazon wants to sponsor this post I wouldn’t be opposed to it)

#blog #substack #kindle #books #reading #litgirl

don't shit on the girl with a kindle

can you be a lit girl, and own an e-reader?

open.substack.com

emma🦈 @traumaandcompany.bsky.social · Nov 25

my latest piece is a reflection on a recent visit to a cemetery in london, contemplating ideas such as mortality, remembrance, and grief, and the different ways you see them expressed🕯️🌑

#cemetery #london #substack

remembering necropolis

thoughts I had walking around a cemetery

open.substack.com

emma🦈 @traumaandcompany.bsky.social · Nov 19

oof, winter in london came abruptly

emma🦈 @traumaandcompany.bsky.social · Nov 19

it’s crazy how there’s a new social media platform every year, but there are countless real-life social networks that never recovered from the pandemic