Okay, the excerpt and feature image might be dramatic, but the prompt was not. I asked the team to chart some aspect of their person or life in more or less a fun way. While our team may most often use words, for this prompt, we were all challenged to use visuals (and sometimes math) to convey meaning. I’ll simply leave you to it. HAPPY NEW YEAR AND WE HOPE YOU ENJOY!
xoxo,
Nico
Okay but I love everyone’s charts. You are all artists.
Oh I love this. Thereās a bit of me in all of them but I relate the most to the dresses one by Vanessa
The dresses one by Vanessa is So Real.
haha thank you both, gotta give credit where credit is due, my fiancƩe came up with the premise of my chart (i just did the execution)
This is great!
Darcy are you for real reading Matrix by Lauren Groff right now or was that just an example of any book? lol I just started reading it last night and so far I’m really into it!
Not yet, but itās my book clubās book this month and I think my copy arrives tomorrow! Iām excited!
This is utterly delightful. As a current fellow grad student, Shea’s especially got to me, half the battle is focusing to do the darn reading! Love the creativity in all of these!
heather my theory w mr darcy is that since he doesnt talk, queers and straights alike can project pretty much anything onto him until he is perfect! including darcy’s gender situation – so much possibility there.
This is an incredible theory.
I love this and want it to be a regular feature. I love how many people said they spent a significant chunk of their mental space devoted to their dog and queer books, because same. Though I’m concerned by the downward trend in Sally’s thinking about Lesbian eBooks.
Blame the dog and also the fact I always seem to have 20+ physical books out of the library
sorry to break it to julie but everything on that chart is bottom music
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CAN ANYONE RELATE TO MY CHART
Your chart was hands down the best one and I was legit surprised there were any others after it because I assumed it had been saved for last!
And for context, I actually loved all the charts, so
Probably the people who relate most to your chart are just slower to click on a data and chart roundtable
It was the funniest! As someone who occasionally makes charts from spreadsheets, they’re not as easy as they look or should be. At least in Microsoft. Why are the labels so hard?!
I will use your Chart at work and confound my coworkers with its moxy.
wow love this article, top article award to this article and to everyone’s charts
kayla, i do not relate to your chart but did appreciate it
stef’s chart is literally what happens in my mind anytime i see them use “brother” on social media, ngl
Or when I listen to their podcast and they say brother.
Yes charts!!! I see everyone loves a good pie chart, bonus points for Sally for being unique and Kayla for being honest
I like that Drewās chart validates Rieseās
doesn’t it???? perfect chef’s kiss
I laughed at Being Friends With Drew as peak Gay Highbrow š
about 50% of the things i crave are the same as nico’s! (financial stability for autostraddle, 30 hour days, finishing my novel)
we are so similar in so many ways
Oooo metacharting!
Drew, I love that Before Sunrise and Before Sunset are the constants. the correct choice :)
Yes! And now I’m wondering what Drew thought of “Waking Life.”
these are all delightful and now i am Chartifying my own life. today most of my brain space is tossing around potential names for a second cat
I can’t stop thinking “chartify your life” to the tune of “spice up your life”
WHAT ARE THE CHOICES
WHAT ARE THE CHOICES I ALSO MUST KNOW
OK so my current cat is sharktopus aka sharky and if she gets a baby brother he’s almost definitely benedick aka benny or dickhead depending on his behavior
however have been contemplating Cat Meryl Streep to go with my car, Car Meryl Streep
and then i have an old doc with a list of names including “chipotle pronounced like aristotle” and “false dmitri IV the final threat” and “the singularity” which are all on the wild card roulette wheel
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I think this might be my favorite A+ thing to date, and I say this as an avid reader of every single Insider.
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All these charts are amazing!
I don’t know if this was intended, but I found Sally’s very moving. Right now I think a lot about “dying/dead mother” and it’s comforting to imagine I could one day transfer that brain power to “lesbian ebooks”. So thank you.
I also appreciated this.
I love all of these SO MUCH and I also want to say that as a teacher, this “assignment” is incredibly inspiring!
omg do let us know if you do this with your students :)
Amazing! I said this week in another life I would be a statistician!
Happy to see the Shout Out to One Night Ultimate Werewolf! I forgot how much I like that game
This is everything. Love this so much and I especially connect to Kayla’s chart on a spiritual level.
Stef, brother, I cackled!
āFanfiction (in my head)ā A. Tony I see you and I hear you. Iāve had the same 5 unwritten fics running in my backup brain for likeā¦10 years now.
Also, Valerie Anne, is Atthea an OC from high school? Because they have a certain *energy* that a lot of my beloved teenage creations have!
only seeing this now but i love it, thank you very much