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Welcome to NSFW Sunday!
Words! Wondering how to say ’em around other people again? Here are some tips, such as for when you have to do a fake laugh, get interrupted, or are stuck listening to a story in excruciating and exacting detail:
“This can almost certainly be expected in the coming months, since none of us have had any real practice in talking to people other than our closest friends and partners, who put up with our proclivity toward pumping stories up with silly little details. A long-winded, overly detailed anecdote typically includes entire transcribed conversations […] In ‘good’ storytelling, these conversations are shortened, and irrelevant details about what color hairband Anna was wearing, for example, are left out.
It will take time for everyone to get used to telling normal stories again, which will make social interaction kind of terrible for a while, but that’s OK; it will end! Until then, you can use all the extra time a given story takes to practice saying, ‘totally’ and ‘whoa’ at the right intervals.”
And since the pandemic is still very much ongoing and in-person parties are a fantastic dream still divorced from the present reality, here’s how to sabotage your zoom call with fake technical issues if you’re not ready to whip out a solid “totally” just yet.
If daylight savings time is still messing you up, here’s how to get your sleep back on track.
Here’s how astrology is impacting your sex and love life right now.
What’s your attachment style?
If you’re having anal, consider: the lube shooter.
What will happen when we can all touch?:
“But as several million new people are inoculated each day, there is a palpable sense that touching and being touched will not be a solo act much longer. Each restriction lifted — restaurants can now have 50 percent occupancy, music venues will open in April, you can go to a movie theater — forces us to weigh what we’re psychologically ready to let back in. Sensitivities will be heightened, and I wonder how our excitement will affect our awareness of other people’s touch tolerance; will we be able to read signals as well as we had, or will we all be awkward and fumbling, unsure and hesitant? When the time comes, will we even know what to do anymore?”
