My quest for you? Have a few more 'who cares' moments 𓆩♡𓆪
+ An update on the Kate Middleton conspiracies, unrest in Haiti and an album from North West?
My angels!!! Currently writing to you at the same time as I’m slacking Bel in a 4am haze (final week of book manuscript things.) God - does it feel like we’ve been writing this book for an AGE? That’s because we have!!!
Yesterday I showed my family the piece I’ve written in there for my little brother who passed away, and I got this response from my youngest brother about it (which I think is good?)
So forgive me if I’m in an emo zombie state over the next few days - it’s all feeling very real now and I’m grateful and terrified and thankful (for you and for Bel) and… OMG! We wrote a book!!!!
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A Kate update (an upkate?)
As much as I have been loving how totally hinged and normal the internet is being about Kate Middleton, I do hope this is her last mention in the newsy for a while. The latest in Kategate is that she has ‘fessed up’ that the photo manipulation I spoke about the other day was in fact done by ‘her.’
See the statement ‘she’ released on Instagram and decide what you make of it yourself:
And then Twitter sleuths again did what they do best and discovered that the manipulated photo may have actually been from a previous Vogue shoot:
Yikes. As I said, thank god everyone is being so normal about this.
Some other news you can use (from sources much smarter than me):
CAA: India to enforce migrant law that excludes Muslims (BBC)
India's government has announced plans to enact a controversial citizenship law that has been criticised for being anti-Muslim.
The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) will allow non-Muslim religious minorities from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan to seek citizenship.
Haiti’s leader resigns as gangs run rampant through country engulfed in crisis (CNN)
The embattled prime minister of Haiti, Ariel Henry, has resigned after weeks of mounting chaos in the Caribbean nation, where gangs have been attacking government structures and social order is on the brink of collapse.
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In Case You Missed It: How to Have A Good Time
Hello crushes! Coming to you from a hectic flat white haze on an ancient patio for our final week on our book manuscript! I'm stressed and worried, can you tell?! Life's a movie though, Ronan Keating, just ride it!
This week, I wanted to resurrect an old phrase from Chimes ago (lol, love that phrase as a construct of time), because I feel like the changing of seasons always brings about a strange onset of yearning or nostalgia (ugh it's over/ugh, it hasn't begun yet/zomg what was I doing this time last year).
Plus, after getting a lot of lol and cute messages last week on Modern Euphoria, I have this feeling that maybe we're all in need of small signs to remember how to ... have a bit of a good time? Just a thought.
I mean all of this not in an emo way, but in a way that's like, life is hard (inevitably), so what are the things we should both do and actually care about? I wonder if the answer is, funnily enough, about caring a bit less in the angsty moments. Because we see so much of each others' lives now, it's easy to get swept up in the feeling that one mistake or 'wrong decision' will take us very far from the path of perfection. A lie, I would argue. See my extremely academic reference below as proof:
Cool, k, See you this weekend when I'm answering a real D&M of a wuestion for ‘Wait, But What?’ which you know, I j'adore.
If I ever meet any of you IRL we will be having a buttery chardonnay in a random bar and start solving the big questions of the world, and you know it! Til then — Love u!
And finally just, this:
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I saw a tiktok this morning talking about how the photo is probably from november 2023!! Based on their outfits and the photoshopping of the clothes to be 'different'. Could be the explanation as to why they won't release the original - its old from last year!!! The tiktok was by Allyn Aston I think.
I'm so so excited for you guys for getting closer and closer to finishing the book! It's a huuuuge achievement and I am so excited to read what you've spent so much time on.