Yearnslop is the perversion of everything good about Love

you losers deserve better than this

Most Online Writing About Love Is Slop, And That Is a Sin you losers deserve better than this Mar 17, 2026 25 6 10 Share A couple weeks ago I posted something tangentially related to the Great Stream of Substack Yearning Discourse, and while the level of virality that this post reached is objectively equivalent to essentially the swine flu—very much viral by 2008 standards, but fairly quotidian by contemporary ones—I have asked myself a simple question: Have I become YearnDiscourser, destroyer of worlds? I am hoping it is clear to my freshly acquired yearn-pilled subscribers that this space is

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