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. 

I’m swiftly approaching my 30th birthday, and a person very close to me recently convinced me to revisit my relationship with horror films.

I think you deserve to enjoy how it feels when you and a partner enthusiastically consent to each other.

I knew nothing about the events of Mrs. America until I started watching the show.

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.

Could cooking be as easy as they make it look in my Facebook newsfeed?

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

I’ve gotten used to the winters here, to the rough knuckles and the wind chill.

So what if dating was just like karate?

And somewhere between now and then the world changed, and so did I.

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.

I think we became stones in each other’s lives even though neither of us wanted it to happen.