What It Means to Be Loved Properly
After my divorce, I learned how to find joy on my own and come home to myself. Now I understand that loving properly doesn’t require two perfect people—only two people willing to show up honestly, keep growing and choose each other without abandoning themselves.
Your House Could Be Weirder: 18 Strange & Beautiful Amazon Home Finds
Your house could be weirder. 🐍 From anatomical heart vases and raven bookends to snake lamps, skull art and Medusa, I found 18 strange, dark and ridiculously cool Amazon finds for a home with an actual personality.
Santa Cruz Weekend Guide: Things to Do August 21–23, 2026
Summerween, live music, farmers markets, flowers, Shakespeare in the redwoods and a triathlon by the sea. Here’s what’s worth doing in Santa Cruz, Capitola, Aptos and Watsonville this weekend, August 21–23.
It’s Chic to Stop Caring What’s Chic
Everyone wants to be original, apparently in exactly the same way. Maybe authenticity isn’t another aesthetic to master. Maybe the chicest thing you can do is stop performing, stop following, and like what you like without asking the algorithm for permission.
Skin That Looks Expensive: The SkinMedica Products Worth Knowing
There’s skincare that feels nice, and then there’s skincare you buy because you want it to do something. From SkinMedica’s cult-favorite TNS treatments to its plumping HA⁵ formulas, these are five serious skincare products worth knowing—and possibly worth the splurge.
Dare I Say, I Feel a Revival Coming
I can feel it coming. Not just autumn, a revival. Darker books, colder nights, live music, strange movies, Halloween and permission to get a little weird again. Consider this your warning: The October Revival is coming. 🖤
What to Read While You’re Waiting for Wicker
If the Wicker trailer immediately rewired your reading mood, this list is for you. From gothic obsession and enchanted forests to old gods, strange lovers and women with inconvenient appetites, these books scratch the same deliciously dark itch while we wait for the movie.
Be Weird. Be Whole. The Freedom of Becoming Fully Yourself
Maybe becoming yourself isn’t about polishing away the messy parts. Maybe it’s about becoming less edited. Embracing your shadow, following what makes you feel alive, failing spectacularly, getting back up, and refusing to spend your one life waiting for permission to be who you already are.
Nighttable: 5 Dark Romance and Thriller Books to Read After Dark
Looking for your next dangerously addictive read? This edition of Nighttable features five dark romance and thriller releases filled with masked obsession, gothic secrets, remote-island mysteries, and small-town lies.
Things to Do in Santa Cruz This Weekend | August 14–16, 2026
Summer is showing off in Santa Cruz. From strawberries at the UCSC Farm and art and wine under the redwoods to live music, local makers and a Sunday ride on the Giant Dipper, here’s what’s worth leaving the house for this weekend.
Hunt Me, Don’t Text Me “wyd?”: 9 Dark Romance Books
Forget dry texts and low-effort flirting. These nine dark-romance releases deliver obsessive heroes, dangerous pursuits, mafia bargains, gothic vengeance, masked games, and desire with teeth.
Yearning
There is wanting, and then there is yearning. An exploration of female hunger, the ache of being deeply affected, our obsession with morally grey men, and what we lose when modern love teaches us to want without ever risking being seen.