hey, you! happy Sunday!
thanks for reading the fifteenth issue of The Kids Are All Right, a weekend TikTok digest written by me, a young woman whose favorite kind of apple is Golden Delicious.
enjoy,
L
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sorry i missed ya last week! it was a bit of a whirlwind. my first official New York Times film review went live and i was celebrating with friends.
this last week has been a bit all over the place, in a bad way. on the plus side, iâm inching ever-closer to the opportunity to get a COVID vaccine, and more sunshine means more chances to get out of my apartment. Neil is as soft and sleepy as ever. iâve been non-stop injecting a relationship advice podcast into my ears, so i am full of affirmations and advice. if you want to know whether or not you should make a stupid relationship choice, please shoot me an e-mail. i would be happy to yell at you.
when not distracting myself from my own problems by listening to othersâ, iâve been:
đ” listening to: the advice podcast Just Break Up, Lil Nas Xâs âMONTERO (Call Me By Your Name)â
đ watching: Law & Order: SVU, Raw, Four Weddings, Say Yes to the Dress
đ reading:Â N/A
The Main Event
here are some of my favorite TikToks as of late.
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Sketchbook Tours
when i was a little kid my stock answer for âwhat do you want to be when you grow up?â was âan artist.â i would draw all the time. my elementary and middle school notebooks were brimming with doodles. but somewhere along the way i got too scared to draw if the results werenât perfect. now, i donât do it so much anymore. so i get a special kind of joy from seeing TikTokkersâ sketchbooks. itâs so cool to see artists developing their skills in real time â and the results are often jaw-dropping.
Grave Cleaning
Alicia, a.k.a. @ladytaphos on TikTok, is a woman who deep-cleans gravestones. itâs a mesmerizing process to behold, and the videos fill me with a special sense of comfort. itâs nice to think that someone completely unconnected to us might still one day care about us after weâre gone. check out some of my favorite videos of hers below.
Sheeeeeeeesh
in a new meme, young TikTokkers brag to their hypothetical future friends about their Big Adult Accomplishments: pretty yards, cozy homes, bougainvilleas galore. the friendsâ response? âsheeeeeeeeesh.â this is an infinitely precious collision of cool meets responsible, mundane meets mind-blowing. i also have a lot of similar Big Adult Goals, myself.
Misc. Delightful Content
you know whatâs up.
Dancer of the Week
these women!!!!
thatâs it for now! remember: if weâre kind and polite, the world will be right. đ»