plastic frog

 If you've watched "High Fidelity" (the movie or the new series), you will probably remember the scenes where Rob talks about the art of making a playlist. This blog post is inspired by that, I've also added my advice and tipps. Here are 10 steps to a great playlist: 1. have a cool theme.  This can be either songs that all contain the same word (like for example "yellow") in their title or just have similar ~vibes~ (I prefer the latter tho, while it's fun to put playlists that contain the same word in the title, I don't find listening to them as interesting as to the ones with a similar musical theme). One example would be to have songs that have a light airy flow to them, or dark depressed songs. Or the most common probably ... love songs. 2. don't use too many songs by the same artist (unless that's your theme as Rob said lol). It showes more creativity (and that you know more bands and artists) if you use different ones and still manage ...

I've started using a menstrual cup recently (yes I know that I am years late to the "trend") and naturally, before trying it, I watched a ton of YouTube videos prepare, see how it worked and how to use it. The openness in those videos was so refreshing and the people who talked about using a cup seemed so confident and comfortable in their bodies.It made me think about how little menstruation is talked about, even though about half the population menstruates, and how little I myself knew about my own body.  I think a big part of why cups were intimidating to me is because I was (and probably still am) not entierly comfortable with my body. There is a such stigma surounding mensturation and if cis men menstruated, the conversation would be totally different. The cup community felt like a safe space in a world full of euphamisms for the word "period" and blue liquids in advertisments. And no, I don't advocate for the buzzfeed-paint-with-used-tampons type of fe...