In a recent class on information communication technology, my peers practically exploded with disapproval at a documentary showcasing an online relationship. “But, those aren’t real!” was the overwhelming consensus. “You just can’t get to know someone over the Internet.”
As someone who has spent the past year and a half deliriously happy with a lovely boy I met online, I’d like to respectfully disagree.
SOMETIMES, LOVE REQUIRES gifts. Especially at this time of the year. Enter Will Pulos, our video crafting impresario. He’s got the perfect homemade craft for all of the loved ones on your list!
As a rising star in the art world, I’m glad to join the lineage and proudly assert my claim that the most dramatic and ridiculous relationship I will ever have is with myself.
Last spring I was lying crumpled up in bed, crying and about to phone my mother for the third time that day, when it occurred to me that my post-breakup situation was funny. It was like one of the scenes in the beginnings of romantic comedies, right before the brokenhearted future couple meets in some cutesy way. I was Bridget Jones, drinking in Christmas pajamas. If she could get up off the couch and put the vodka down, so could I – and I could make it funny. And public.
In a different city on a different coast, I often fall asleep aching to be close to my sister; save the few times a year I fly back East, the ambient intimacy of videochat is the closest I get.
1. 2. under a dark wind, a brighter moon than anything hides undercover your hand over mine. you led me through bramble and hill into a field, the distant shape of a regal tree past the crest of your shoulder white light cloaked in clouds, trod in grass and straw, hay of the field underfoot [...]
It seems that the Teen/YA genre is ruled today by paranormal love, and the concepts behind these paranormal love stories tend to go against, well, everything we millennial gals are taught about independence and gender equality.
