Essays

Normal Is Just an Idea: My Thoughts on Sally Rooney’s Normal People

Let's talk, episode five

May 13, 2025 • Fatima

The Desire To Be Loved

On how the idea of love lingers even when the chase ends

May 6, 2025 • Fatima

Love Beyond Good and Evil

a reflection on love and abuse

Apr 20, 2025 • Fatima

Evangelion, Nothingness, and the Eternal Loop

The desire to not exist pt.2

Feb 21, 2025 • Fatima

It's three thirty am.

Nov 3, 2024 • Fatima

Mothers' wariness

Marriage talk and other headaches

Aug 14, 2024 • Fatima

Getting older, ya know?

hovering awkwardly between the exhilarating chaos of early twenties and the sober reality of adulthood.

May 27, 2024 • Fatima

if facing the truth is one of the hardest difficulties we face, then how about grief?

Feb 13, 2024 • Fatima

Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 and my struggles with femininity.

Sep 16, 2023 • Fatima

Time is running out

I think I'm drowning, asphyxiated

Sep 8, 2023 • Fatima

And another month goes by

Jul 31, 2023 • Fatima

Just like any other task i started today, this one is half done and unsatisfying

Jun 3, 2023 • Fatima

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