🌻 in poor taste - by Jasmine Sun - half-baked futures

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1. Refreshing Facebook Marketplace every Friday night. Going on desultory walks around your neighborhood, scanning the sidewalks for discarded bounty. Last year you stooped a three-foot vintage mirror with iron trim, and now you’re convinced that this mode of interior design is superior because it is more serendipitous, more cosmically aligned. You end up with the furnishing God thinks you deserve. 2. Keeping your middle school playlists secret like a forbidden crush. Because one time you said you liked Taylor Swift and your trendier girlfriends didn’t leave you alone for months. Listening to the same songs your dad ripped from the 2009 Grammys Nominations CDs you borrowed from the public library, that he burned onto your plastic MP3 player that somehow doubled as a flash card set. Spending $1.99 on iTunes to buy the new Maroon 5 single to listen to, over and over again, before you fall asleep. 3. Searching “makeup for asian eyes” on YouTube and watching probably twenty-some videos wit

i’m but a refraction of all the content i’ve ever consumed, etc Ten alternatives to having good taste: 1. Refreshing Facebook Marketplace every Friday night. Going on desultory walks around your neighborhood, scanning the sidewalks for discarded bounty. Last year you stooped a three-foot vintage mirror with iron trim, and now you’re convinced that this mode of interior design is superior because it is more serendipitous, more cosmically aligned. You end up with the furnishing God thinks you deserve. 2. Keeping your middle school playlists secret like a forbidden crush. Because one time…

🌻 in poor taste - by Jasmine Sun - half-baked futures

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