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Making art (day 86/100). Pick something and do it every day for 100 days.
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The Names
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You may be wondering whether your life would be different if your parents had chosen another name for you. Haven’t we all, at some point? Maybe your mom still mentions the name your dad wanted, or vice versa, and you try it on in your head for a moment. What would it have been like to move through the world as someone else? (Cybil, in my case. Or Jade, if my mom had won.) But names can carry so much—family history, legacy, hopes, or expectations. In The Names, a baby boy is given three different names and, with each one, a different possible life. His mother and sister orbit those shifting identities too, each of them shaped by the complicated act of choosing (or not choosing) what gets passed down.
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Lady Tremaine
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Oooh, who’s the villain now? In the grand tradition of retelling familiar stories from the antagonist’s point of view, Lady Tremaine reimagines Cinderella through the eyes of her evil stepmother. But it’s more complicated than we’ve been led to believe. We all have to earn our keep somehow! I found myself almost immediately rooting for Lady T and wishing Cinderella would, for the love of god, shut the fuck up and DO SOMETHING. It’s got a little 9 to 5 to it: navigating power with limited options, doing what you have to do, and taking care of your girls no matter what.
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