i-Diary 10: Hot girls MUST write

[Thom Bettridge]

Is substack a nature preserve for hot girls who write occasionally?

[Ella Emhoff]

We MUST

[Nicolaia Rips]

ITS FOR THE GOOD OF ALL

[The World Bent Backwards]

Journaling at the speed dating event instead of making eye contact

[Nicolaia Rips]

Asf

[sheila berger]

Apple galettes……

[Nicolaia Rips]

Miss u

[sheila berger]

I miss you! And love you and your writing!

[Jojo Schön]

will print this for my 2026 vision board.

[Celine Nguyen]

okay this is SO true: “The hot girl who writes occasionally is the backbone of the internet!”

also loved the shoutout to my queen Sei Shōnagon…the og Gossip Girl of the Heian court…

[Mandy Dilasi]

“That’s what I love about the substacks and diaries I read, that I get to witness a moment of becoming.” Girl, same 💕

[Nimrod Kamer]

Chris Black’s hanover-usa dot com web address is too US centric

[Nicolaia Rips]

Everybody should go out more and later

[Jenovia 🕸️]

Reading Anaïs Nin’s diaries as a teenager changed my life. I just wrote a note about Eve Babitz in the Paris Review today. Theee BACKBONE!!!! 🎯

[Nicolaia Rips]

!!!!!!

[Ashley J.]

This may not count as hot tip, but it is maybe a scoop. They pay people to go to speed dating in NYC. Happy to divulge more on how/why I know.

[Maria Rodriguez]

I love all of this!!!! Stealing these party hacks