when zombies attack, lean into love
plus, a symphony reminds that feeling > thinking
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💌 dear diary reader
in this week’s episode—029: love & zombies / no thoughts, just feels—we get into one of our favorite queer love stories and the reminder that we are here to feel, not think.
🔮 a glimpse into this week’s stories
✨ARNS SOBS OVER HER FAVORITE POST-APOCALYPTIC ROMANCE
the last of us is coming back, y’all! in celebration, arns sobbed all over again while watching season 1, episode 3: “long, long time”. if you have yet to indulge in the heartbreakingly gorgeous story of bill & frank, please, for the love of god, watch it.
a snippet from arns’ segment:
this was a revolutionary piece of cinema for so many reasons: the stunning performances. the queer representation. the fact that they managed all of this with the backdrop of a zombie apocalypse.
but it was also so familiar: the rush of falling in love. the steadiness of growing in that love. the way love can look like sweeping gestures…and it can also look like watering their plants, or cooking a meal for them.
but mostly, this episode was just a beautiful re-telling of an age-old truth: love changes us. and that’s the whole point.
✨NINS IS WRECKED BY A SYMPHONY OF FEELINGS
how often do you truly let yourself *feel* without overanalyzing every aspect of whatever you’re experiencing? never? lolll same, girl.
this week, nins watches “Suite & Colors of the Wind (Pocahontas)” as part of Hollywood in Vienna's celebration of composer Alan Menken. and then she gently reminds us to gtfo of our heads :’)
a snippet from nins’ segment:
this experience, watching this video, all the thought exercises and second-guessing myself…it made me wonder how many times in my life have i let my brain distract me from what i was truly feeling, from experiencing the world in its rawest form—purely through my senses.
because i am always trying to rationalize, apply logic, to make sense of, to skirt around errors, or just let my mind run so fast that i end up missing the point entirely—which is that we are here to feel what it’s like to be alive. to experience the world and allow ourselves to be moved by it.
we live here on earth, not inside our heads.
🙉 it’s almost the end
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in shambles,
nins & arns