Millennial Monica
@monicanastase.bsky.social
Trained journalist and professional #writer.
✍️🏼 Blogging about #expat life on Substack.
https://monicanastase.substack.com/
I speak 5 languages. Multi-country migrant.
#writersky #booksky #expatsky
✍️🏼 Blogging about #expat life on Substack.
https://monicanastase.substack.com/
I speak 5 languages. Multi-country migrant.
#writersky #booksky #expatsky
What does ‘home’ mean to you? 🏡
What feeling does it ignite in you when you say ‘home’? What image do you see? What sounds?
I’d love to hear as many answers as possible for an essay I’m working on. Bonus points if you’re a migrant!
I will tag you if I use your answer.🙏🏼 Thanks!
#question #survey
What feeling does it ignite in you when you say ‘home’? What image do you see? What sounds?
I’d love to hear as many answers as possible for an essay I’m working on. Bonus points if you’re a migrant!
I will tag you if I use your answer.🙏🏼 Thanks!
#question #survey
December 1, 2024 at 8:44 AM
Marketing101: make your product *so* recognizable that you don't need to mention/show it at all. #jaguar
When you say Jaguar, I BET you think first of the car and then of the animal...
When you say Jaguar, I BET you think first of the car and then of the animal...
November 23, 2024 at 8:50 AM
Marketing101: make your product *so* recognizable that you don't need to mention/show it at all. #jaguar
When you say Jaguar, I BET you think first of the car and then of the animal...
When you say Jaguar, I BET you think first of the car and then of the animal...
I spent an hour at the library earlier and was spellbound by how quiet it was.
My head felt like a busy fish market in the morning compared to the reading room. It's so relaxing and centering to spend a few good minutes per day in absolute, utter silence. 🧘🏻♀️
#writersky #library #thoughtoftheday
My head felt like a busy fish market in the morning compared to the reading room. It's so relaxing and centering to spend a few good minutes per day in absolute, utter silence. 🧘🏻♀️
#writersky #library #thoughtoftheday
November 22, 2024 at 8:00 PM
I spent an hour at the library earlier and was spellbound by how quiet it was.
My head felt like a busy fish market in the morning compared to the reading room. It's so relaxing and centering to spend a few good minutes per day in absolute, utter silence. 🧘🏻♀️
#writersky #library #thoughtoftheday
My head felt like a busy fish market in the morning compared to the reading room. It's so relaxing and centering to spend a few good minutes per day in absolute, utter silence. 🧘🏻♀️
#writersky #library #thoughtoftheday
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Libraries feel like something about which we could very easily be saying, “Remember that place where you could borrow books, for FREE, and return them when you were finished?” And kids would say “What?? No way!” And yet there they still are, despite everything we’ve become, existing. Remarkable.
November 22, 2024 at 7:56 PM
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Ahah I love it. 💬
Nothing modern is, in fact, modern.
Nothing modern is, in fact, modern.
November 22, 2024 at 7:53 PM
Ahah I love it. 💬
Nothing modern is, in fact, modern.
Nothing modern is, in fact, modern.
Ahah great tip, Courtney!👏🏼
Pro tip: Write food descriptions while you're starving. While your stomach will suffer, your book won't.🤤🍗 #fantasywriter #writersky
November 22, 2024 at 6:39 PM
Ahah great tip, Courtney!👏🏼
November 22, 2024 at 5:50 PM
I like these new hashtags I see that are basically variations of #Bluesky, our host here. 🏡
#booksky
#readsky
#culturesky
#artsky
It inspires me to look up at the sky every time. Books in the sky? Art in the sky? 👀⛅️
#booksky
#readsky
#culturesky
#artsky
It inspires me to look up at the sky every time. Books in the sky? Art in the sky? 👀⛅️
November 22, 2024 at 3:08 PM
I like these new hashtags I see that are basically variations of #Bluesky, our host here. 🏡
#booksky
#readsky
#culturesky
#artsky
It inspires me to look up at the sky every time. Books in the sky? Art in the sky? 👀⛅️
#booksky
#readsky
#culturesky
#artsky
It inspires me to look up at the sky every time. Books in the sky? Art in the sky? 👀⛅️
I'm fascinated by how weather and geography shape the languages we speak and the words we use.
Are similar-sounding languages spoken in similar climates? WDYT?
#NonficNov #NonficNov24 #booksky #readsky
Are similar-sounding languages spoken in similar climates? WDYT?
#NonficNov #NonficNov24 #booksky #readsky
Local Climate Influences How Languages Sound
How the weather and the geography shape the languages we speak and the words we use. Are similar-sounding languages spoken in similar weather?
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November 22, 2024 at 3:03 PM
I'm fascinated by how weather and geography shape the languages we speak and the words we use.
Are similar-sounding languages spoken in similar climates? WDYT?
#NonficNov #NonficNov24 #booksky #readsky
Are similar-sounding languages spoken in similar climates? WDYT?
#NonficNov #NonficNov24 #booksky #readsky
Let the weekend start! 🤓📚
My next bookclub read is this. Has anyone read it? Opinions?
#amreading #booksky #bookclub #readingnook
My next bookclub read is this. Has anyone read it? Opinions?
#amreading #booksky #bookclub #readingnook
November 22, 2024 at 2:57 PM
Let the weekend start! 🤓📚
My next bookclub read is this. Has anyone read it? Opinions?
#amreading #booksky #bookclub #readingnook
My next bookclub read is this. Has anyone read it? Opinions?
#amreading #booksky #bookclub #readingnook
What?! 😅🚪🪨
just woke up but
i highly recommend carrying around a random object like in your bag or something when going out bc i personally have a ton of rocks and a doorknob and not only is it stress relieving to rub them, it will make an awkward silence disappear bc now theyre wondering why you have that
i highly recommend carrying around a random object like in your bag or something when going out bc i personally have a ton of rocks and a doorknob and not only is it stress relieving to rub them, it will make an awkward silence disappear bc now theyre wondering why you have that
November 21, 2024 at 5:40 PM
What?! 😅🚪🪨
November 21, 2024 at 5:37 PM
3. and 7. 🤣🤣❄️
As snow and ice is coming, here’s a list of my ten favourite gritter names…
10. David Plowie
9. Nicole Saltslinger
8. Creedence Clear-Road Survival
7. Spreddie Mercury
6. I Want to Break Freeze
5. We Will Rock(salt) You
4. Super Spreader
3. Thaw and Order
2. Gritter Thunberg
1. Snow-be-gone Kenobi
10. David Plowie
9. Nicole Saltslinger
8. Creedence Clear-Road Survival
7. Spreddie Mercury
6. I Want to Break Freeze
5. We Will Rock(salt) You
4. Super Spreader
3. Thaw and Order
2. Gritter Thunberg
1. Snow-be-gone Kenobi
November 21, 2024 at 5:35 PM
3. and 7. 🤣🤣❄️
Excellent article! 👏🏼
And not just for the US-based readers. Billionaires be billionaires anywhere...
And not just for the US-based readers. Billionaires be billionaires anywhere...
Billionaires are bad, actually: @maris.bsky.social revisits 50 Shades of Grey in the age of the mega-rich creeper.
Billionaires Are Bad: Revisiting 50 Shades of Grey in the Age of Mega-Rich Creepers
“It’s my body.” That’s what virginal Anastasia Steele tells billionaire Christian Grey when he asks her to see the OB/GYN he has picked to check her out before he will consider having intercourse w…
buff.ly
November 21, 2024 at 5:32 PM
Excellent article! 👏🏼
And not just for the US-based readers. Billionaires be billionaires anywhere...
And not just for the US-based readers. Billionaires be billionaires anywhere...
Are you a coconut or a peach? 🥥🍑
monicanastase.substack.com/p/coconut-pe...
#socialstyles #culturaltype #socialsciences #multicultural #introvert #extrovert
monicanastase.substack.com/p/coconut-pe...
#socialstyles #culturaltype #socialsciences #multicultural #introvert #extrovert
November 21, 2024 at 7:44 AM
Are you a coconut or a peach? 🥥🍑
monicanastase.substack.com/p/coconut-pe...
#socialstyles #culturaltype #socialsciences #multicultural #introvert #extrovert
monicanastase.substack.com/p/coconut-pe...
#socialstyles #culturaltype #socialsciences #multicultural #introvert #extrovert
Good morning, bluesky!
Well, yellow-orange-fuchsia sky rather... 🌅
Well, yellow-orange-fuchsia sky rather... 🌅
November 21, 2024 at 7:02 AM
Good morning, bluesky!
Well, yellow-orange-fuchsia sky rather... 🌅
Well, yellow-orange-fuchsia sky rather... 🌅
Reposted by Millennial Monica
wow your new nonfiction book sounds really compelling. i can't wait to watch a youtuber badly plagiarize it in 2-3 years
November 20, 2024 at 8:23 PM
wow your new nonfiction book sounds really compelling. i can't wait to watch a youtuber badly plagiarize it in 2-3 years
Reposted by Millennial Monica
remember before phones when people had books and magazines in their bathrooms
November 20, 2024 at 6:43 PM
remember before phones when people had books and magazines in their bathrooms
This might be a liiiiitle too soon, but... Why are we patriotic?!
Here is my take on it: monicanastase.substack.com/p/why-are-we...
#essay #opinion #article #substack
Here is my take on it: monicanastase.substack.com/p/why-are-we...
#essay #opinion #article #substack
Why Are We Patriotic?
And what does it say about us if we are not patriotic (anymore)?
monicanastase.substack.com
November 20, 2024 at 11:04 PM
This might be a liiiiitle too soon, but... Why are we patriotic?!
Here is my take on it: monicanastase.substack.com/p/why-are-we...
#essay #opinion #article #substack
Here is my take on it: monicanastase.substack.com/p/why-are-we...
#essay #opinion #article #substack
How amazing would this be?! I'd play with it all day long.
Someone needs to do a Google Maps, but for the past. For example, typing in "London to York" but you can select a period e.g. 1450s, and it would give you the likeliest route. That'd be great.
November 20, 2024 at 10:53 PM
How amazing would this be?! I'd play with it all day long.
49 years since Franco died, today. 🇪🇸
To me, expat but mostly immigrant, this name is just another character in the history book.
To me, expat but mostly immigrant, this name is just another character in the history book.
November 20, 2024 at 10:50 PM
49 years since Franco died, today. 🇪🇸
To me, expat but mostly immigrant, this name is just another character in the history book.
To me, expat but mostly immigrant, this name is just another character in the history book.
Reading the book Spain, by Michael Reid.
A masterpiece of history and politics!
Now I get so much better the customs and motivations of my fellow countrymen, so to speak. 🤓🇪🇸
A masterpiece of history and politics!
Now I get so much better the customs and motivations of my fellow countrymen, so to speak. 🤓🇪🇸
November 20, 2024 at 10:48 PM
Reading the book Spain, by Michael Reid.
A masterpiece of history and politics!
Now I get so much better the customs and motivations of my fellow countrymen, so to speak. 🤓🇪🇸
A masterpiece of history and politics!
Now I get so much better the customs and motivations of my fellow countrymen, so to speak. 🤓🇪🇸
The Millennials under the bluesky will enjoy this newsletter: monicanastase.substack.com/about
Come say hello! 👋🏼🤓
#substack #expatlife #essays
Come say hello! 👋🏼🤓
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About - Millennial Monica
Essays exploring migrant life, how it influences our relationships and how it shapes our cultural identity. My writings are permeated by my status as a Millennial, permanent foreigner. Click to read M...
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November 20, 2024 at 10:18 PM
The Millennials under the bluesky will enjoy this newsletter: monicanastase.substack.com/about
Come say hello! 👋🏼🤓
#substack #expatlife #essays
Come say hello! 👋🏼🤓
#substack #expatlife #essays