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assistant editor @parisreview / Kendall lil peep music video virtual world novella Island Time

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@diamonddustpaw
olivia kan-sperling
4 years
“Ugh, open up!” ...I kicked my locker in frustration. The FaceID lock never works because I like to let my long black hair fall into my intelligent green eyes to cover up my porcelain features. This isn’t like other high schools. Being pretty doesn’t get you far around here.
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@diamonddustpaw
olivia kan-sperling
1 year
For a long time I had to compete sexually with girls who were functionally mute and would exclusively share pictures of like trash or a providence gas station w their Instagram followers. They were cool. I hope that never happens to me again
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@diamonddustpaw
olivia kan-sperling
2 years
Girls we can not text each other back but we can certainly like, share posts, react story, message each other pics in sparkling net of socializing & adoration that evades direct responsibility for communication & linear thinking!!!!!!! Yay
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@diamonddustpaw
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2 years
another long day in the screenshot factory. and my work is far from done.
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olivia kan-sperling
1 year
Realized today. People say you are “cringe,” it is THEM who are “cringing” (afraid). But Chinese NEVER CRINGE and that explains why I like to buy things like a pink cowgirl costume
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@diamonddustpaw
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1 year
I hate going to sleep so much. It feels like committing suicide.
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1 year
Ppl assume I like books about girls in NYC doing drugs, when actually I like books about guys in LA doing drugs
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@diamonddustpaw
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2 years
This is the full range of contemporary literary fiction 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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@diamonddustpaw
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2 years
What novels Should be like
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2 years
I am sorry, I wouldn’t know anything about that. I’m just a poet, philosopher, and model.
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olivia kan-sperling
2 years
Been screenshotting the El Bulli (molecular gastro) catalog 1983-2011 for like 4 days now. So far my findings are: they have invented genuine NEW Aesthetic & Form (in everyday aesthetics) of the millennium, sth like ~Textural Contemporary Gothic~ ... MARK FISHER WRONG once again
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2 years
when u look in someone's softly-whirring eyes and realize the interaction means nothing more than another record in their training dataset... horror movie feeling fr...
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@diamonddustpaw
olivia kan-sperling
1 year
Against normie miniaturist realism ("literary fiction") and towards style, synesthesia, multimedia writing, and LANGUAGE AS LOVE!!! Feat Esther Yi's Y/N, DFW, Sally Rooney, and Naruto fanfic writer MintRaspberryLemonade. @nplusonemag
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olivia kan-sperling
1 year
maybe I could give myself a PhD.... hm... i thnk i could give myself a philosophy phd prettyyyy fast (2 years) if i was locked in a glass box doing it, and attractive strangers were watching the box constantly, kind of like an art project or onlyfans
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@diamonddustpaw
olivia kan-sperling
6 months
All the indie writers do these twee ministories w precious unconnected sentences like “I saw a sparrow that looked like a jumprope. Peter had come in from the weather barking— ‘Again I’ve left my cardigan unbuttoned.’ I’ve always known how to fold a napkin the right way” THE END
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@diamonddustpaw
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5 months
At the dentist
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@krithikavaragur She got obsessed with making square space websites
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@diamonddustpaw
olivia kan-sperling
2 years
i actually enjoy looking like i got scammed on depop
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@diamonddustpaw
olivia kan-sperling
2 years
i <3 hippies. i could say more BUT i understand that's not a popular opinion. Because I, like them, believe in HARMONY, beautiful patterns, Imagination & LOVE, i'll refrain from sharing more thoughts on this matter —unlike u PUNKS (believe in edgelord contrarianism & strife)
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@diamonddustpaw
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7 months
Thank you!!!! Excited!!! Yay!!!!
@ditrapanofdn
The Giancarlo DiTrapano Foundation
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Announcing our Spring 2024 Residents: Walt John Pearce ( @walt_knows_best ), Stephen Mortland ( @stephenmortland ), Nicole Otero, Izzy Casey ( @uglylibrarian ) and Olivia Kan-Sperling ( @diamonddustpaw ). We'll be hosting them in Sezze, Italy, in April.
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On Honor’s meta love story ~ @mimpathy knows we’re lucky to see “all of the ends and the beginnings beginning and ending and beginning and ending and beginning and ending infinitely.” @parisreview
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@diamonddustpaw
olivia kan-sperling
2 years
I wrote a form-centric Lacanian figurative language lookbook free-associating: Zizek's Abercrombie & Fitch magazine, the Miu Miu SS22 pleated miniskirt, Twilight book covers, Ed Ruscha, & distressed denim @PraxisSociety
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@diamonddustpaw
olivia kan-sperling
2 years
I have lots of tips n tricks for ensuring no one sits next to me on the long distance bus. Same skillset, btw, that made me the #1 ranked employee at Urban Outfitters (company-wide, including free ppl/anthro) in POS customer-email collection for many weeks running in 2015.
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@diamonddustpaw
olivia kan-sperling
1 year
My essay. “Airbnb Death Valley,” a Richard Kern Re-Enactment and MY BODY PERSONAL TRAUMA GENRE ESSAY in the form of a triptychal John Ashbery pastiche about Sarah Snyder, Girls & Guns, post-History, etc. In print & online: … @noagencynewyork
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@diamonddustpaw
olivia kan-sperling
2 years
Ppl hate on asian e-commerce “it doesn’t fit right” UHH have u seen what a bitch looks like in an Eckhaus baby tee/painted jeans or gauntlett c nubby dress? Like a 1-size Sesame St costume from dumpster. No thanks I’ll take my snatched semiotically creative mini from Guangzhou
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@diamonddustpaw
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2 years
Trust me Emily Dickinson would have been using emojis
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olivia kan-sperling
2 years
“Located in Paraguay, the Kit Kat bench rewards passersby with a free chocolate bar when the machine senses they have taken a sufficient ‘break’ [sit still 60 seconds]”.. U may think RELAXING is BORING but u never know.. 😂 object instantiation of ancient concept of Sabbath 🌺🌷
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@diamonddustpaw
olivia kan-sperling
1 year
Reading a Mid Book imagining the authoress writing down precious lil observations in her notes app to turn them into precious lil details in her mid book of carefully observed characters and carefully inoffensive prose
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@diamonddustpaw
olivia kan-sperling
2 years
If u don’t smoke weed well i’m just not sure I can believe you’re a real American
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@diamonddustpaw
olivia kan-sperling
2 years
imagine playing a chess game in ancient days under a flowering tree in persia...the sheer intelligence put into play.. the surprises.. wow, what an amazing IQ game, they thought. Now, it, like the SATs, is for ppl who like memorizing textbooks and being the opposite of surprised
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@diamonddustpaw
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1 year
this has led me to look into american marble manufacturing. we used to have a lot of companies. unfortunately now ALL have shuttered except Sammy's Mountain Marbles and Dave's Appalachian Swirls, both founded during the hipster years. they do remind me of mark the cobra snake
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1 year
i'm amazed at these marbles
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@diamonddustpaw
olivia kan-sperling
10 months
Parker posey in Party Girl clearly has Asperger’s. Really ahead of its time
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1 year
What novels should be like
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1 year
Are “mean girls” lindy? IMHO girls being mean has been a relatively common practice for at least several centuries, tho perhaps not millennia… But who knows!
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“A juvenile burn book, totally uninterested in the world outside her group chat.” I love Ann's own criticism bc she's brutal, funny, amazing close reader, but more importantly inserts her non-ironically held values/ethics, emphasizing the astounding superficiality of her subjects
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Arielle.
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Y’all have got to read this shit 😂😂 savage ass review 🔥🔥
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olivia kan-sperling
7 months
This Sunday at 8pm! Please come, because I have something special planned.
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Our first night on EARTH will be with HEAVY TRAFFIC ( @heavytrafficmag ) on March 31st, Easter Sunday
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2 years
Against Op-Edification of Aesthetics & Toward Criticism as Fanfiction+depopscammercore relational aesthetics+In defense of clothes that don’t fit! (in defense of language that doesn’t mean)+illegible cavegirl & invisiblepattern realtreeboy = making-meaning=hunter-gathering=STYLE
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NEW MODELS
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🔊 NM60 | Code Couture w/ writer Olivia Kan-Sperling @diamonddustpaw on the programming logic of style in 2023 Substack: & Patreon:
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@diamonddustpaw
olivia kan-sperling
1 year
UES boho mommy boutique called “unsubscribed”
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olivia kan-sperling
1 year
David Remnick’s article-interview “the alternative facts of RFK jr” is not only, as usual, incredibly condescending to readers but truly the most disgusting piece of propaganda…another day of shame for the media class. I hate myself. I stay in china.
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@diamonddustpaw
olivia kan-sperling
7 months
i would love to have been around for the advent of the miniskirt. just imagine how crazy it was—for everyone!!
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olivia kan-sperling
2 years
EmbarrasIng just realized this is indeed literally the cover of a Sally Rooney novel
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@diamonddustpaw
olivia kan-sperling
1 year
I don’t like the taste of Coca Cola but I feel I understand the whole vibe and concept behind drinking Coca Cola and it’s kind of what I’m all about
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@diamonddustpaw
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I feel so inspired to write a poem about Interview Magazine.
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@diamonddustpaw
olivia kan-sperling
1 year
Last Days of the Tennis Skirt… Film01 -> the Idol = Brandy -> Britney; pretty -> sexy; cotton pointelle cami -> red silk black lace…for the first time in years so much is happening in feminine aesthetics. just in time for me, a Girl -> to become a Woman. :)
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@diamonddustpaw
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I am writing in my diary about blade runner, how it relates to my main mental problems
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olivia kan-sperling
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1 thing I learned from David Lynch Masterclass that has proven SO true in my life: whereas in general there should be No rules, in traffic, rules are very important. Everyone should follow them. I support the rule of law in traffic 100%. (But otherwise, no rules.)
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@diamonddustpaw
olivia kan-sperling
2 years
there's this one brand of basil pesto I like that reminds me of my childhood, then there's another that reminds me of the future
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@diamonddustpaw
olivia kan-sperling
11 months
Let me tell you, the reality of being a high T girl is even worse than it sounds!!
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@diamonddustpaw
olivia kan-sperling
1 year
2: Fanfic as Criticism as Sentence Design as Second-Hand Wardrobe. Didion’s disembodied style (GHOST) complains about Chloe, Ottessa, & it girl characters. A story about Life and Death and Form and Nonfiction. WHY JOAN DIDION ONLY WEARS SKIMS. @spike_art
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Being really into Whit Stillman movies I can understand from a cinema POV, but it just isn’t something to advertise as your aesthetic orientation. Not a sympathetic quality
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@diamonddustpaw
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7 months
I love Magic so much. And it's not even real.
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olivia kan-sperling
1 year
I love having my Eyes Opened. I also love batting my eyelashes
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1 year
There’s no fat male models
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@diamonddustpaw
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1 year
Purple, in all its shades, is the least fashionable color atm. connotations of yankee candle or insomnia cookies. But that will change...
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@diamonddustpaw
olivia kan-sperling
2 years
HOT TIP someone goes “well actually, that’s a reference to [history]” I just say “⚠️STOP RIGHT THERE✋🏼🙅🏻‍♀️I AM A 🔥ZOOMER ⭐️ AND I DO NOT NEED TO KNOW YOUR ✌🏼CULTURAL 🎨 CONTEXT✌🏼PLS LET THE IMAGE WORD FLOWER 🪷🌊WITHOUT YOUR STUPID PARASITIC COMMENT INTERVENTION”
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olivia kan-sperling
1 year
My parents were fine but in analysis I’d talk about the ballet teachers with whom I spent every day after school for 15years: Tom, a hot gay arty choreographer and Marianne, a thin, blonde ex ballerina married to a firefighter. They were very withholding
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@diamonddustpaw
olivia kan-sperling
1 year
Happy 27th birthday Lil Peep
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Expat Press
1 year
Announcing the drop of @diamonddustpaw ’s ISLAND TIME: WHITE TEE EDITION. Limited Run. Third printing. 11:11 * 3 = $33.33. Buy to manifest a wish. A classic in a NEW OUTFIT made from rarest earth minerals mined from exclusive private beaches only:
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@diamonddustpaw
olivia kan-sperling
2 years
I discovered that a La Colombe butter croissant is 250 cal in NYC, 306 in Boston, 356 in LA, 370 in DC, and 570 (!!) in San Diego. All information that's publicly available on . This is why independent research is important
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I really like this piece. It is not just a 'moving account of pain' etc but, as always w/ Carver, an amazingly funny & life-affirming feat of minute attention to moods and mental movements that teaches you how to read yourself. @parisreview
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@diamonddustpaw
olivia kan-sperling
2 years
Thinking about the Velvet Underground doc I saw a year ago or whatever. Can’t believe how boring it was when it could’ve prob been sexy and awesome. And no it wasn’t boring in an awesome way. I thought this shit was supposed to be the coolest height of white culture ever?
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@diamonddustpaw
olivia kan-sperling
5 months
I am so down bad. I buy a Réalisation Par dress to efface myself entirely. And that is the ultimate submission. — poem I have been working on
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olivia kan-sperling
11 months
Someone told me half way thru Middlemarch it changes into a “modernist novel” well now I’m 28 hours into this audiobook at a lively countryside auction scene and am starting to think a trick has been played on me……..
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@diamonddustpaw
olivia kan-sperling
1 year
There are a few simple tricks I could implement to make myself less annoying to others
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@diamonddustpaw
olivia kan-sperling
2 years
photorealistic realtree seamless symmetrical pattern composed of a mysterious italian garden at night with statues of gods metamorphosing into deer with a secret message hidden in the interstices of the pattern, for camouflage
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@diamonddustpaw
olivia kan-sperling
7 months
i'm kinda I would say a folk prose artist :)
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olivia kan-sperling
1 year
I suspect my notion of what the “beatniks” were all about rests on a few fundamental misunderstandings, nevertheless—
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@diamonddustpaw
olivia kan-sperling
2 years
My Crying girl makeup look Balenciaga tragic love story NOIR crime mystery that reveals the true meaning of romance, symbols, and accessories!
@heavytrafficmag
Heavy Traffic
2 years
“The Perfect Glove” by Olivia Kan-Sperling @diamonddustpaw in Heavy Traffic II.
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olivia kan-sperling
9 months
it's okay when ppl who r actually cool gently mock me to my face. I have a lot to learn from them. they are investing in my future and having fun at the same time. so if u want to mock me, go ahead and ask. if ur cool i'll say yes.
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@diamonddustpaw
olivia kan-sperling
2 years
Imagine a movie: “Tinder Date.” A bad 1 night stand... results in pregnancy. Over 90 min/9 months, this pair of strangers must learn to fall in love. Imagine how contemporary and relevant that movie would feel. I think that kind of movie would bring us all back to cinema
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@diamonddustpaw
olivia kan-sperling
1 year
i thought my wanderlust was amorphous, totally unbound from matter etc; isabelle taught me that actually there's some really nice LUXURY SUITCASES out there ...................
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olivia kan-sperling
2 years
Sorry NO ONE wants to read ur computer chat transcript...at best it makes u seem like an idiot AND asshole TEENAGER doing prank calls and me feel VERY sympathetic to the GPT. I'm sure you've put its words out of context, you clever tricksy substack writer!!
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@diamonddustpaw
olivia kan-sperling
2 years
The acupuncturist was so horrified at the state of my body and mind. Especially in such a young girl.
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@diamonddustpaw
olivia kan-sperling
2 years
my headspace free trial ends today. thankfully my classpass free trial starts today.
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olivia kan-sperling
2 years
idt u should cut out 'of course' 'obviously' from statements in essays...helpful context for those unaware of the obvious. i like to be informed of being out of touch, happens all the time, it's just good to know
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9 months
Mad libs has really influenced my prose style
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olivia kan-sperling
2 years
On Easter thinking about all the hipsters that came before
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olivia kan-sperling
1 year
"Why is sumo wrestlers’ skin so smooth and glowing? What? You’ve never been close enough to one of these gentle giants to tell? Take our word for it; their creamy complexions are the envy of ladies throughout the land, and their prodigious consumption of saké is believed to be
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olivia kan-sperling
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my twitter style is feeling so cramped ugh. posting this tote bag i saw to loosen up. i'm sure this would make a great gift for someone out there.
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olivia kan-sperling
1 year
According to the New Yorker, Barbie is a disappointment (compared to the lovely Little Women) bc it is for the “super smart” (uhh?) also too “wacky”… amazing how committed these ppl are to cultural mediocrity
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2 years
Now is time for me to rest & replenish my store of images
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olivia kan-sperling
2 years
Yes babe I was in the hospital. And it was *exactly* like a video art.
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olivia kan-sperling
1 year
I love shakespeare
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olivia kan-sperling
2 years
all Jeremy Fragrance says about Mugler Amen is that it smells exactly like the lobby of the Grand Hyatt Dubai — he emphasizes this multiple times but doesn't elaborate
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olivia kan-sperling
2 years
challenging myself to only communicate via o-mighty graphic t depop product photos. if it's not in the o-mighty lexicon, do i need to say it? NO.
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olivia kan-sperling
1 year
Chinese Netizens Roast Ryan Gosling as Ken in Upcoming ‘Barbie’. “Gosling’s viral Ken look — a fake tan and platinum blonde hair — has been deemed tacky by Chinese social media users”
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olivia kan-sperling
2 years
Not sure why owning taxidermy seen as weird/bad. I love animals just don’t have lifestyle for live pets. More of a taxidermy lifestyle. Also it’s recycling
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olivia kan-sperling
1 year
I guess yeah the culture is bad but have you ever had to go to a zine fair ? I’ve been to like ten
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olivia kan-sperling
7 months
It's so much cheaper to buy a parrot than I thought
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olivia kan-sperling
8 months
i could just use twitter to post cool images like this
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olivia kan-sperling
2 years
I’m so much like the guy in the Proust books. Can never get to sleep.
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olivia kan-sperling
2 years
Car rental places. They suck so bad but what can we do? They have what we want. Cars.
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olivia kan-sperling
1 year
How sausage is made
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olivia kan-sperling
2 years
Most of my female friends are on the alien spectrum
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@diamonddustpaw
olivia kan-sperling
7 months
“What can’t be contained? Not much. We are given the resources, mental or physical, to contain our emotions and our belongings. Failing to do so often registers as weakness.” @isabellepretend on Problems at the Container Store...
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olivia kan-sperling
1 year
Every interview should ask, "Do you drink Coca-Cola?"
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olivia kan-sperling
11 months
many books made a big impression on me as a young reader, but perhaps none so much as UO Hand Book (2015)
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