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Lee Summers's avatar

Who needs Magic Mike when Enchanting Elias is right here? Loved reading this, thank you!

Saint-Lazare's avatar

Vulnerable Elias, who would have seen that coming? Here for it

Marco Altea's avatar

Please, Caroline, give us more of your writing. <3

Wendy Russell's avatar

Oh, so much beauty in this. Damn...

John Madrid's avatar

The audience section is brilliant. Everyone in that room confronting something they didn't plan to confront. The house plants as a literal green room made me laugh out loud. Really enjoyed this, Caroline.

Caroline Osella   (they/them)'s avatar

Thanks, means a lot; been neck-high in imposter syndrome lately.

Gregory Blair's avatar

Wow! This is a superb riff on the delirious surrealism of celebrity, socially acceptable prurience, the inability to satisfy vanity, the folly of makeup, the fluidity of gender, and probably other stuff I missed. Bravo!

Caroline Osella   (they/them)'s avatar

Ha, glad you dug in and found some layers! 🙏🏾 Thanks

Billy Bumbo's avatar

A four month holiday abroad never did you no harm! More texture, more nuance, more kineticism in your prose.

Caroline Osella   (they/them)'s avatar

I feel the kinetics. Four months of no-lo screen and intense embodiments have been good, for sure.

Leslie Carlin's avatar

This is the second time today I've gotten a message today that refers to LLMs/ generative AI "hallucinating". I think ALL THE TIME about *I, Robot*.

Caroline Osella   (they/them)'s avatar

And overheating seas, sub-sub-sub par entertainment, trillionaire, and lots knows what other horrors.