No God, Still Praying

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just a really good day

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should I reply "dare you guys to commission me x"

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Camilla Grudova, The London Magazine

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treated myself to breakfast and reading session at a cafe for how hard I've been working this past week and a half

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first time leaving my flat for a reason other than going to work in weeks

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Yep I've been to Tokyo before and also not a fan of the American vintage shops! Thanks for the recommendations - so are Kindal, 2nd street etc less americany ones and more general? Xx

from what I remember yes those are the shops that are "secondhand/recycle" shops, they dont have typical charity style shops in japan but this is the equivalent, so they are not overly curated and focus on either streetwear or luxury goods and basically the clothes you see ordinary Japanese people wearing. the quality of what you find will vary from each shop and each area.

i found my issey trousers and my y's top from ragtag in shibuya (90% sure).

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Where's the screen shot of you placing 95 in literature from?

its for my substack! linked on my blog

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you dyed your hair red recently and i was wondering if you’ve been keeping it red! it looked good. didn’t mean anything weird by that

lmaoo sorry i get so many weird messages it's hard to imagine someone might be genuinely curious about my hair, the internet has trained me to think who would gaf unless it's malicious. but it is still red! I haven't needed to re-dye it as only the roots are dark brown and I like the slightly faded look

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manifesting more paid published writing work + another trip to japan

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Whether you’re talking about your day or answering a question, it’s always so enjoyable to read what you write. What have you done to improve your writing skills?

what a nice compliment! I really don't consider what I write on here as writing let alone enjoyable so that's nice to hear. I think its an inevitable effect of reading a lot but I do make an effort to read my writing out loud, edit it, read other authors for inspiration and comparison when I'm actually writing a story or an article. the thing I want most though is constructive critical feedback but that's very difficult to access

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you are a role model to me <3

you're so sweet!

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Do you have any recommendations for boutiques or vintage shops in Tokyo? Xxx

I do! secondhand/vintage shopping in Tokyo is literally an olympic sport because you are so spoiled for choice, seriously unlike anything else. obviously, depending on what you're looking for. but its so different to the way you would shop in Paris or London, you don't really visit that many specific stores but instead find chains of secondhand clothing shops in every area in Tokyo, which being the biggest city in the world means it's endless (hence why it's good to explore some outer areas that aren't as populated by tourists).

I personally really dislike the casual American style clothing which populates a lot of the individual or touristy clothing stores in Tokyo, so I found the shops which did a lot of luxury and designer through trial and error.

these are the names you need to recognise and keep an eye out for in every area you explore:

Kindal, 2nd street, bazzstore, ragtag, trefacstyle

these are some standalone shops I visited:

comyu tokyo, curios tokyo,

nude trump, while iconic is expensive and really just for lady gaga, kanye west etc, would recommend visiting for the experience but it's not a thrift shop.

koenji was one of my favourite areas that I recommend for shopping

if I went back to Tokyo (which hopefully I will) I think I'd be able to make a shop guide, the first time was just too overwhelming and busy :)

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is your hair still red

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holy fuck just sent off my first commissioned piece of writing work to be published, on the day of the solar eclipse no less, which I missed because I was writing

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"It-girl" Novelists' Masculine Revisions | Grace Byron — House House Magazine

"When The Guest took the Hamptons by storm, many considered Emma Cline to have crafted the book of the summer. “People scour the pages to catch a glimpse of a version of their neighbors, their wealth, and maybe themselves,” Curbed reported. Yet online brands and disinterested literati reduced Cline’s harrowing tale of a sex worker trying to stay on the straight and narrow while battling a pill addiction to hot girl literature."

"Being a beautiful party girl can certainly help sales, but it can also be a gilded cage. Books by beautiful women on the back flap tend to get more play. Being traditionally attractive (and even blonde) helps with selling a persona and brand. While writing isn’t a visual medium, marketing is. Profiles of women authors love to describe their subjects as gaunt or being both smart and gorgeous, as if this is a contradiction."

"This is the kind of disdain for the divide between commercial pressure and artistic integrity that the publication of these novels demonstrate. Trying to write literary fiction with broad appeal is an uphill battle. Such calculation cannot, of course, be stripped away from the context of gender. The continual fretting over the disappearance of male novelists only serves to assert that women’s place in literature is unearned. It is not as though men find themselves bereft of awards. Moreover, their work rarely seems to be dirtied with the dire label: “middlebrow.”