nov 8 2022 - show girl
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june 7 2022 - effortless exertion
this is ur 2nd slushee of this 2022 gemini szn—what pleasure! lol as i wrote that last 3rd quarter moon, I've been thinking about effortless...
may 22 2022 - pelvis splash
nooooo I didn't forget, i never mess up*, this is a third quarter moon special: *except when at the gym, where I've been finding new ways to flop, new...
mar 10 2022 - sound party
dearest slushee sleuths! on sounds and sound discourse #subcrit this afternoon, I was listening to that recent album's 4hr44min closing track. coincidentally...
feb 8 2022 - sustainable accumulation [on cheer and hype house]
my fellow content consumers, we must discuss two of Netflix' latest releases: cheer and hype house. plus a bonus reality tv sub-crit below. nobody (ok fine,...
jan 9 2022 - coat rustling crunch
hey you slush-star, i have little sense of the days lately but the day after it just snowed here in NYC, i remembered last winter's slushee reveling in snow...
dec 10 2021 - artist rising trainwreck
hello inbox trolls! this slushee's title comes from the astrology meme graphic below—one of the best of the year! last Friday's first quarter moon was in...
nov 11 2021 - at the behest of a bestie
everyone, the ads are especially bad lately just a sm0l observational rant, b/c the analysis is too obvious: we've reached the stage of startup-late-...
oct 12 2021 - inefficient conversion
ugh, hello there!! <3 📸 - selfie of me in yellow- and white-striped dress, pink helmet, a couple bridges, almost sunset blue sky [10-11-21] happy libra szn +...
sept 13 2021 - neck systems
we're really not gonna be able to virgo girlboss* our way out of this one, huh? 🥲 happy first quarter moon in Sagittarius! happy virgoszn! do u have...
july 23 2021 - mark it full out
hi slusher, welcome to the first slushee written on the occasion of a full moon - last Friday's in aquarius. linear time is fake, etc. etc. earlier that day...
june 17 2021 *special edition* - stylish muscling
happy cancer szn + mercury retrograde shadow timez! i wrote this a while back so i promise this was actually ahead of schedule ºenergeticallyº and...
may 19 2021 - heart throbs
hi slushee stans! did we make it to buttondown okay? welcome! the first quarter moon entered virgo – we’re feeling calmly systematic, in control but not too...
apr 20 2021 - precious calluses
update: i’m leaving substack! how disappointing they are :(this will be my last missive from here - in may, stay tuned for a msg from buttondown :) feel free...
mar 21 2021 - a roundabout confrontational
i can’t believe ‘first quarter moon slush’ (ur fave monthly missive) and ‘soft bodies in hard places’ (my petit curatorial platform) have existed since 2018...
feb 19 2021 - body surf
feb 19 was my birthday! haha [feb 18] it is snowing as i edit this. what a delight! i think about compiling another love letter about my snow embodiment...
jan 20 2021 - xtreme sportz
dear slushee fans, one recent day, i biked a breezy 4ish miles to the botanical garden to see a dear one i haven’t been with in physical space since before....
dec 21 2020 - traverse via flotation
there is so much astrology to process this wk - which ofc, is to say, there’s so much to process and astrology’s framework provides some guiding questions to...
nov 21 2020 - scatterplot brain
dear reader, my brain is a scatterplot, no line of best fit i’ve thought of everything i could say and everything I should say and you’re getting the edited...
oct 23 2020 - falling exercises
dear slushee pals, I just couldn’t last month cause, you know, fall hustling, free falling, falling apart, falling over myself, "falling” as a somatic...
aug 25 2020 - just slippery
dear reader! long time no see! can’t believe it’s been months! i've missed you! hope for my IRL fans, we can have some version of this conversation IRL...
apr 30 2020 - such attn
as semi-alluded to last time, here’s a slightly edited thing that I wrote for the April 1 slushee ! today’s first quarter moon moved into Leo this morning so...
april 14 2020 - fuck sorry, just
today’s third quarter capricorn moon special post is brought to u by Aries season and ur fellow readers (mostly off twitter) who appreciated these quick...
apr 1 2020 - somehow cogent
a few days ago, I started writing this slushee and it somehow turned into something cogent again, something with complete sentences and logically divided...
mar 2 2020 - romanticism, not always for the 'gram
dear readers, there’s a vein of (not necessarily untrue) thought that explains the outsized popularity of superhero movies through their propagation of...
jan 2 2020 - canonizing a year? nah
dear reader, i come to you from a previous decade, one you might have been in since people started frantically anticipating its arrival with the countdown’s...
dec 4 2019 - bombastic hip thrust
to Jupiter in Capricorn, to #sagittariusszn, to December, to this horrific year slowly ending for more horror Marcella Arguello @marcellacomedyMe...
nov 4 2019 - sensical synchronicity
a cliché: write what you know I have usually considered myself among the dancer folks who don’t retain new choreography well. i’d nearly black out in...
oct 21 2019 - for the time being
‘first quarter moon slush’ (yes, always linking to myself) celebrated its 1-yr anniversary / solar return last week on oct 16 - check the inaugural post here...
oct 5 2019 - it's funny how
jonny sun @jonnysunmillenial culture is knowing that the only difference between weekdays and weekends is that you have more time to get work done on...
sept 21 2019 - slow burn making
I can’t help this is where I am the; repetitions and obvious statements are a revelation in themselves and yes, this is me being generous to myself and it...
sept 5 2019 - uneven cycles
hi, um, today, the moon is in a first quarter and transitions from scorpio to sagittarius tho it feels like the new moon in virgo was like yesterday....
aug 23 2019 - everything's lol
spoiler alert: #semisolovacay2019 did not fix my burnout ✰ benedict nguyen @xbennyboohonestly, ppl are more grateful than they realize that I conveniently...
aug 7 2019- #semisolovacay2019
y’all, i’ve had some very groggy and sloppy moments lately and I apologize if my oversights has affected you. My last slushie, I just noticed I abbreviated...
jul 24 2019 - quick cat note sit
b/c it’s still june 24 on the west coast, where I leave for #semisolovacay2019 in just a few days :) ^^ GIF: Amethyst flipping her hair, living her life on...
july 9 2019 - pass the torch
but delivered to you in reverse order! today , the moon shifts into its first quarter phase in libra. I’mma choose to not say more cause it is what it is ✰...
june 25 2019 - moving thru
when I first started compiling the tweets (yay, they’re back!) for this slushie, i sort of accidentally was formatting it as a #summergoalz listicle and am...
june 10 2019 - loud, pipin down
i don’t know if I know how to write one of these slushies without leaning on tweets, whining about sleep or burnout, but clearly i have my ~recurring themes~...
may 26 2019 - #geminiszn
[plz believe me I sent this on may26 and it didn’t work and then again on may28 and clearly I need to double check b/c that didn’t work so ur welcome, get...
may 11 2019 - multi tasking
enough people have talked about how efficient technology is bad or whatever (no need to cite because it’s casz) but that didn’t stop me from feeling lo-key...
apr 26 2019 - can't dance
giphy showed me the above (a glassy unicorn in an ever-renewing, expanding rainbow) when I searched ‘light’ and a friend and I had a longer text conversation...
apr 12 2019 - weird feels but ok
✰ benedict nguyen @xbennybooweird feels but ok #weirdfeelsbutok weird feels but ok #weirdfeelsbutok weird feels but ok #weirdfeelsbutok weird feels but ok...
mar 28 2019 - direct, direct!
[someone make that cha cha slide remix, ty] after over 3 weeks of seeming to go backwards (like why?!), mercury stations direct today! and i’m probably in...
mar 14 2019 - me time, slow time
✰ benedict nguyen @xbennyboo#MercuryRetrograde #MercuryRetrograde #MercuryRetrograde ig isn't working lol #MercuryRetrograde #MercuryRetrograde...
feb 26 2019 - chats with urself
Jillian Tamaki @dirtbaggis it self-care or procrastination? look inside your heartFebruary 15th 20191,196 Retweets3,954 Likes what a sumptuous pisces szn,...
feb 12 2019 - all the content so meh
i’m so behind on tv and have many questions for what this show centers but i do love it and also ^^^ damn, a mood. exhibit b: i don’t even know what this...
jan 27 2019 - matrices, take downs, canyons
suggested soundtrack for this longer-than-usual read: ✰ benedict nguyen @xbennyboostayed outside for around half an hour and watched the clouds pass through...
jan 14 2019 - color-coded productivity
[this is not spon-con but] entering this ~new calendar year~ thinkin about my todoist ‘karma’ [don’t get me started] streak [currently at 12 days], which...
dec 29 2018 - puppies and lists
[omg today's the 29th, not tmw lol]dearest dear, idk if i have many interesting thoughts lately — the tldr; includes tryna (unsuccessfully) to be productive...
dec 15 2018 - i told you so
dear darling in december, this sagittarius season has also been so challenging (see a pattern with me?) and so, so fun. of the sun seasons to get my life...