Rot Girl Winter is 50% complete
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We are smack dab in the middle of ‘rot girl winter’, and I’m here to share with you all the ways to stay cozy and get an A+ in rotting.
This week, escape with some sexy tv, mellow out with some fantastic new music, and explore some different genres of books with me. I’ve also included some of my favourite ‘stay in bed’ indulgences.
By the way, my hibernating friends, there is no need to poke your head out from under your covers just yet. We have 35 more days until the sun stays up past 7pm. Rest easy, stay coy.
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Recommendations
📺 Watch
The Tourist S1 on Netflix. The show, which centres on a man who wakes up with no memory in the middle of the Australian outback, originally aired on BBC One and HBO Max in 2022 and is now available to the rest of us who can’t subscribe to every single streaming service. Netflix will also release season 2 at the end of February. If a dramatic thriller starring the dashing James Dornan sounds nice, bundle up and binge.
Expats on Prime. I’ll watch anything Nicole Kidman is in. Based on the novel The Expatriates by Janice Y. K. Lee, Kidman’s production company bought the rights back in 2017 and have turned out a full-fledged, excellent miniseries.
Let’s get dishy!!! I read Capote’s Women last year and absolutely loved the “real housewives” vibes. What a mess! Now, we all get the Ryan Murphy interpretation of that mess with Feud: Capote vs. the Swans on Hulu.
🎧 Listen
Mellow options all around. Grab your tea, and queue up these dreamy albums:
Packs Melt the Honey
The Smile Wall of Eyes
Marika Hackman Big Sigh
📚 Read
I’ve been experimenting with different mediums for my creativity and writing, and short stories have been a lot of fun. In my quest to study the craft from the best of the best, I gobbled up Roman Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri. She is absolutely best in class, and this collection of short stories is phenomenal.
Toxic: women, fame, and the noughties by Sarah Ditum is a fresh find for me. It’s a concentrated view of noughties (2000-2009) culture through a feminist lens, and each chapter slaps me with flashbacks I have long forgotten (or repressed?).
Dead in Long Beach, California by Venita Blackburn is a fun palette cleanser. It’s dark and experimental, chaotic and shocking. You’ll be thinking about it long after you finish it.
✨ Indulge
Because it feels like a never ending winter, I’m doubling down on my sleep.
Hibernating is very in right now so that means I’m levelling up my sleep-comfort. I’m high-maintenance because I deserve to be!
The washable silk pj set from Lunya a staple for me, and I have recently added their sleep mask, silk pillowcase, and long robe (man, I feel like a woman!) to my evening routine. It’s luxe and long-lasting, and perfect from my rot girl winter.
Have the loveliest weekend, my friends! I’ll see you next week.