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How to Convince Your Friends to Play DnD
by Tiffany Kajiwara | Mar 16, 2025 | Placeless
“I’ll make a cheese plate for every session!”
How to Get a Badreads Review From Me
by Noah Keene | Mar 14, 2025 | Placeless
The next books in the series were improvements, in the same way that breaking a finger is an improvement over breaking your spine.
How to Calm Your Nervous System
by Olivia Harre | Mar 13, 2025 | Placeless
You are living in a world where we are constantly connected and bombarded with news of terrible things happening globally at every second. No biggie!
How to Trust Your Characters
by Liana Hirner | Mar 12, 2025 | Placeless
Just because I have the power to create characters doesn’t mean I have the power to make them do whatever I want.
How to Ruin a Date
by Gabrielle Eisma | Mar 11, 2025 | Placeless
I should ask him his name, I thought. He somehow knows I don’t like coffee, and I don’t even know his name.
How to Write an Excellent Article for the post calvin
by Philip Rienstra | Mar 10, 2025 | Placeless
Of course, you also have to contend with the assigned theme sometimes.
How to ██████ a ███████
by Gwyneth Findlay | Mar 9, 2025 | Placeless
We’ve tried ███████, ██████████, and ███████████. Where has that gotten us?
How to Take Graduate Courses (For Far Too Long)
by Josh Parks | Mar 8, 2025 | Placeless
For all the pious academic talk about deep and careful reading, our fields run on quick glances and hurried skims.
How to Code (For Writing Majors)
by Kate Wilmot | Mar 7, 2025 | Placeless
His work looks like typing at his desk for hours, glancing between three different screens, and not speaking to anyone. It felt oddly familiar.
How to Make Progress Towards Your Goals: A Check In on My New Productivity Method
by Loran Vanden Bosch | Mar 6, 2025 | Placeless
Consistency is the number one ingredient to being successful—eventually.
How to Be The Cool Adult
by Alex Johnson | Mar 5, 2025 | Placeless
My students would keep me in the loop, right? They wouldn’t just say things and then refuse to explain them to me.
How to Cope With the End of Cinema
by Kipp De Man | Mar 4, 2025 | Placeless
Minutes after it concludes, six Letterboxd reviews ranging from half to one-and-a-half stars appear in rapid succession.
How to Start (and End) a Decade
by Ansley Kelly | Mar 3, 2025 | Placeless
At the outset of my twenties I needed a lot.
How to Pick a Premier League Team
by Christina Ribbens | Mar 2, 2025 | England
If you like Robin Hood: Nottingham Forest. It sounds like a made-up place, but they are a real team.
How to Love a Thing You Made Your Whole Personality but Now Feel Cringe About in Three Easy Steps and Two You Should Have Done Ten to Fifteen Years Ago
by Sam Tuit | Mar 1, 2025 | Placeless
Most normal people just kind of age out of the media they like and stop thinking about it, but you are not a normal person.
First Date Formula from an Armchair Anthropologist
by Izzy Nunez | Feb 28, 2025 | Grand Rapids, Spain, Wisconsin
Ann walked him the ten minutes to his apartment in the opposite direction of hers—chivalry isn’t dead, folks.
Like Diamond Chips on Julia’s Ring
by Anna Jeffries | Feb 27, 2025 | Placeless
I think my brain panics and freezes between political fighting and ephemeral flighting.
Good and Mad
by Annaka Koster | Feb 26, 2025 | Placeless
It’s hard to know how much help is mine to give.
You’re Better at Improv Than You Think
by Sam Koster | Feb 25, 2025 | Placeless
Improv isn’t always about comedy.
My Cozy Corner in This Chaotic World
by Sophia Medawar | Feb 24, 2025 | Placeless
When I was a kid, I had a vision of a cafe that I would open someday. It was a warm place, a place that looked like autumn but felt like summer.
Relearning How to Write
by Mitchell Barbee | Feb 23, 2025 | Placeless
Maybe leaning into lazy writing backfired?
So Many Beautiful Hours
by Savannah Shustack | Feb 22, 2025 | Placeless
I’ve marveled at the sun and the snow and the water and the trees because somehow I’m lucky enough to experience it all.
Making Murmuration
by Emily Joy Stroble | Feb 21, 2025 | Placeless
Start with your community, your neighborhood, your roost.
The Church We Build
by Rylan Shewmaker | Feb 20, 2025 | Belgium
As someone drawn to haphazardness in my organized religion, I was charmed.
Confessions of a (Not Really) Gamer Girl
by Hannah McNulty | Feb 19, 2025 | Placeless
I enjoyed games the way I enjoyed reading; I wanted to walk through the story side by side with the character and feel a part of something, but I didn’t want an evil boss to leap out of the story and fight me.
Bookfinity: The Reckoning
by Isaac DeBoer | Feb 18, 2025 | Placeless
Like Robin Williams in Hook, I want to completely rediscover what’s right in front of me. I want to buy books to read them.
My Taper Candle Collection
by Carlisle Patete | Feb 17, 2025 | Placeless
A few candles have found their way into candle holders, and even less have ever actually been lit.
Nine Feet from the Ground
by Noah Schumerth | Feb 15, 2025 | Chicago
The battalion chief tells me real home intruders “don’t fuck up this badly.”
Stop Trying to Make AI Happen, It’s Not Going to Happen: A Rant
by Noah Keene | Feb 14, 2025 | Placeless
“Come on, bro, the Internet doesn’t have enough photos of people with twelve fingers, bro.”
Two and a Half Years Later…
by Olivia Harre | Feb 13, 2025 | Placeless
Herons fished near trash still floating in their sanctuary.
