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11/19/25
Overheard@Brown
“Jellyfish are just rocks that hurt more.”
“There are no gay brothers, just gay lovers.”
Hot post- time machine
“‘With the pastel blue peeler—its slightly rusted metal speckled with black, remnants of the countless fruits and vegetables eaten, cooked, and shared by my mom and grandma—I shaved the ombrés of scarlet red and golden yellow off seemingly innumerable apples.”
— Lynn Nguyen, “a love letter to apples” 11.22.24
“In my thickset blue and purple sneakers, I watched its kingly flaps, wanting to dig my soles into the ground and bury myself up to my ankles and become immobile. Creatures so vast render human beings into nothing—at least if you look at them for long enough.”
— Ellyse Givens, “deserted” 11.30.23
Top 10 Babies
- Renesmee
- Yoda
- NOT the Four Seasons Atlanta baby (SYBAU)
- The little punk who sat next to me on the plane
- Mom I frew up
- Big one. Large. Just like humongous.
- Hit me one more time
- The Chinese baby on Instagram Reels that eats all his food in size order
- Benjamin Button as an “adult”
- Jack-Jack
11/12/25
Overheard@Brown
“She could not have read Hamlet.”
“Thank you, I’m a performer.”
Hot post- time machine
“‘Is my eyeliner even?’ she asked me anxiously. I looked back at her silhouette in the yellow dawn light, hands animated, eyes bright. I looked and all I could see was the little girl who had napped on my shoulder every car ride. I looked and looked and felt my heart quiver with sadness. I didn’t know what to say. ‘Yeah, it’s even.’ And with that, she looked satisfied.”
— Michelle Bi, "what we inherit" 11.15.24
“But when the time comes to make the cut, I never do. I have never trusted myself enough, which is to say, when things go wrong I don’t know how to forgive myself. It’s easier when my redemption relies on someone I love, and I don’t know if I’ve ever loved myself. I would rather be the one with my eyes closed. I would rather let someone else hold the blade.”
— Emily Tom, "triptych of bathroom haircuts" 11.15.23
Top 10 Lavender Marriages
- Light blue and pink
- My uncle and his first wife
- John Hay and John D. Rockefeller
- Me and a shot of Tito’s
- Janet and Brad from The Rocky Horror Picture Show
- Scar and whatever lioness he had kids with in the second movie
- CP*x and Husband, esq.
- Rhode Island and Massachusetts
- Green and Red M&M
- Keurig Green Mountain and Dr Pepper Snapple Group
11/5/25
Overheard@Brown
“I do not dream of labor…Good night.”
“I just realized last night that plastic surgery doesn’t involve plastic.”
Hot post- time machine
“The fresh cold made us gasp until our blood and the steady air reminded us we were warm. Plumes of mud flowered from the river’s floor where the current tripped a rolling stone or the crawfish pranced or we shuffled and kicked. Our arms gestured high and droplets flew around us like crystal flies.”
— Nina Lidar, “about fire” 11.8.24
“We walk along the lake’s circumference and its green is something I want to inject into my hippocampus and remember, too. I reach for your hand hesitantly, as I am still afraid of being too forward, even after more than a year of knowing your calluses.”
— Ellyse Givens, “send my love” 11.2.23
Top 10 Things the Lion Doesn’t Concern Himself With
- Lyin’
- Slack notifications
- Lactose intolerance
- Eerie similarities between his life and the plot of Hamlet
- The witch and the wardrobe
- Tigers and bears, oh my!
- Anything the light does not touch
- Being turned into a rug
- Sleeping tonight
- What you’ve done, but what you do with what you’ve done for others
10/29/25
Overheard@Brown
“I’m sorry, I’m the weakest link.”
“His mouth irritates me.”
Hot post- time machine
“Here’s what I’ve jotted down so far as tenets of American mythology: the open road, outlaws à la Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the anxiety and appeal of motion, the salt flats in Utah, dust-red handprints on the walls of a dried and ancient canyon, and dangerous nostalgia for a non-existent better time.”
— AJ Wu, “american myth in motion” 11.01.24
“When my grandma sits down and tells me something from her past, it feels like a charm to add to my own life bracelet. Like the ones we used to make with glass beads, Grandma, do you remember? When we sat on your heavily mattressed four-poster bed with the black columns, counted beads to string together, and measured our wrists with a corner store fishing line. ”
— Nélari Figueroa-Torres, “recording scriptures of glory” 10.26.23
Top 10 Couples Costumes
- Cher from Clueless and lowkey her brother???
- Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande—just their fingies
- Ralph Fiennes and Stanley Tucci in Conclave
- Mama and a Girl Behind YOU
- Ball and chain
- John Updike and John Downdike
- The Trolley Problem if you pull the lever and The Trolley Problem if you don’t
- Pomegranate and grief
- The lion and the lioness who do not concern themselves with each other (flop marriage)
- ⅔ Challengers (or all 3 idk) (or 4 with the ball)
10/22/25
Overheard@Brown
“My kids will be dressed like a fucking nun.”
“Sorry I have to read Bible tonight.”
Hot post- time machine
“I must tell you that I am from Hawai‘i, but I am not Hawaiian. I don’t know how it feels to have the land taken from me. I don’t know how it feels to fight for it back. All I know is that, although this land was never mine, it is the one that raised me. It is the only thing I want to write about. I’m turning my memory into mythology for you.”
— Emily Tom, “home is a place revisited” 10.25.24
“There are dances that open their arms, reaching out towards the audience until every single droopy-eyed father in the crowd is tapping his foot along to the rhythm—and there are dances that hug in on themselves and whisper some terrible sadness that brings a tear to the most stoic eye.”
— Mack Ford, “a tangle of movement” 10.18.23
Top 10 Things You Could Pumpkin Spice
- Toothpaste
- Señorita Awesome
- Everything nice
- Everything But The Bagel seasoning
- The 4th state of matter, plasma
- Sheet metal
- Microplastics
- The society in which we live
- Your GCal
- Like, a latte maybe. Sorry. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
10/15/25
Overheard@Brown
“Do you ever look at that emoji and think there’s a lot going on behind that face?”
“No one even shares a chaste kiss.”
Hot post- time machine
“Why can’t I be both? Why can’t I be fluid? I can’t shake off the idea that defining my bilingualism as a state of constant translation, of conscious switches between languages, means chasing my own tail forever.”
— Nahye Lee, “untying my tongue” 12.4.24
“Little girls’ brains are sticky as flytraps. When you’re young, every facial expression you see, every word you read, and the smallest fragments of information all collect in the back of your brain.”
— Olivia Cohen, “how to be a girl” 10.19.23
Top 10 Families
- Yours ;)
- Addams
- Feud
- Ties
- Modern
- Mine ;)
- Rachel Berry, her two gay dads, and Idina Menzel
- The turkeys on Benefit street
- The brother and sister from the Folgers commercial with a ‘special’ connection
- Me and ‘Mother’ (Lady Gaga)
10/8/25
Overheard@Brown
“You can say any slur that applies to me.”
“Kittypets is like calling brown people coconuts.”
Hot post- time machine
“I don’t know what they’ll look like when I return in December. Perhaps this winter will be rainy, and they’ll be emerald green, trees and bushes bursting to life. But it’s more likely I’ll find myself remapping a dozen new ashen scars, unfurled across the slopes, the constancy of change once again making itself known. The next fire season will come, and the one after, and after. The mountains will erupt again and again. Nothing will ever be the same as it is today.”
— Michelle Bi, “leave no trace” 10.9.24
“And I know: to love is beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. I hum along with the music that swells from the speaker. It’s simple, isn’t it? Love isn’t just a flash, a bolt you feel leaping across your veins. Love is what I feel when I look at you.”
— Daphne Cao, “the shape of love” 10.18.23
Top 10 Falls
- Of democracy
- Icarus
- You on your head when you were born
- Hailey Bieber getting out of car after Justin Bieber skateboarded off
- “It’s the perfect texture for running” girl
- Of Rome
- Humpty Dumpty
- The cop who went really fast down that slide
- From grace
- Yours (from Heaven)
10/01/25
Overheard@Brown
“Objectively, that’s a hot dragon!”
“That might be a rat…it definitely doesn’t move like a bunny.”
Hot post- time machine
“It was only my mother who could communicate with me during those first two muted years…We improvised with signals—the rubbing of the chest, the patting of the head—our homemade vernacular. Sometimes, I still feel like she is the only person who understands me.”
— Ellyse Givens, “loveaches” 10.4.24
“Perhaps it is that intimacy flourishes in the gentlest of spaces, in the most ordinary of moments, when a single heartbeat can expand and deepen, as if to extend a hand and ask to dance.”
— Sarah Kim, “nothing much is happening” 10.5.23
Top 10 Bodies of Water
- Gatsby’s Pool
- Lake Inferior
- Lake Superior
- Puddle on the George St. end of the Main Green
- Flooded Keeney basement
- Guy whose body is literally made out of water
- Wishing well
- Red Sea, specifically when it was parted by Moses
- Fountain of Youth
- The river Ophelia drowned in
9/24/25
Overheard@Brown
“I urge you guys to look up big balls. Your worldview will completely change.”
“I’d rather have no queer representation than that.”
Hot post- time machine
“As always, I was late for my 10 a.m., but as always, I took a few minutes to fill in my eyebags, color them black—black like the void, black like dread, black like a scream into a pillow, but also black like the ocean at night, black like two crows spinning in aimless circles against a clear blue sky, black like the darkness of your eyelids as you drift off to sleep.”
— Indigo Mudbhary, “why do you wear so much eyeliner?” 09.27.24
“My pillow cover is a violent red, supposedly a symbol of luck in Chinese tradition. It is a constant reminder of all the superstitious beliefs my mother has instilled in me. While some measures I can’t help but feel burdened by, her act of changing my bedsheets (oblivious to her intentions) to brown ones the night before opening my acceptance letter to Brown, has softened my heart for her little gestures.”
— Gabi Yuan, “red cover” 09.28.23
Top 10 Hear-Me-Outs
- Nick Wilde
- Your mom, your dad, your sister, etc.
- Human Shrek
- Garamond
- The concept of ennui
- Purple
- Zane (LEGO Ninjago)
- Young Joe Biden
- The number 7
- The hotter Wild Kratts brother
9/17/25
Overheard@Brown
“LET ME BE STRAIGHT—well I mean, I’m always straight. You guys are gay.”
“Whenever I see you guys together on campus, it’s like a sunrise.”
Hot post- time machine
“The water awoke myself to my body, a thing so funnily forgotten. The coldness pressed against my limbs so that I could feel every hair I’d always pondered shaving off, and in the full of my throat a fresh thud of heartbeats gathered.”
— Elena Jiang, “on coastlines and other beginnings” 09.20.23
“Here we find the midpoint in our evolution—the oceanic transition into TikTok bisexual boy style—taking the lessons you learned in your sauce incubation and graduating into a sauce moth (the sauciest insect).”
— Sean Toomey, “sweating towards bethlehem” 09.20.23
Top 10 Love Triangles
- Belly + Conrad + Jeremiah
- Bella + Edward + Jacob
- Elena + Stefan + Damon
- y/n + Zayn + Harry
- Me + you + your sister (why no girls??)
- King Arthur + Queen Guinevere + Sir Lancelot
- Short-term memory loss + Short-term memory loss + Short-term memory loss
- God + Satan + Job
- BDH + Indy + Noser
- Zendaya and the people from Challengers whose names I can’t remember
