Best of The Toast
According to a highly subjective and affectionate reader
Humor
- Why I would make an excellent vestal virgin and I think you should consider me for the position
- Bible verses where ‘Behold’ has been replaced with ‘Look, Buddy’
- Texts from Hieronymous Bosch
- Dirtbag Aphrodite
- How to tell if you are in an E.M. Forster novel
- How to tell if you are in a high fantasy novel
- Everything what’s wrong with possums: It’s all of them
- Everything that’s wrong of raccoons
- The pitch meeting for Wishbone
If X Were Your Y
- If Oscar Isaac were your boyfriend
- If Stanley Tucci were your boyfriend
- If Sue Perkins were your girlfriend
- If Tilda Swinton were your girlfriend
- If Steven Colbert were your dad
- If Shakespeare’s Richard III were your coworker
Ronbledore: The Essentials
- This guy on an old Harry Potter forum says Dumbledore is a time-traveling Ron and I want to hear him out
- Ronbledore deniers
- Further Evidence of Ronbledore
Art
- Two medieval monks invent bestiaries
- “Oh… no, my thing is happening: Women leaving tactfully in Western Art History”
- Paintings of Saul and David that could easily be mistaken for angsty romance novel covers
Self-Help
- Things I have mistaken for a personality trait or love over the years, both in others and in myself, usually to my own detriment
- WHY ARE YOU LONELY: A TEXT GAME
- How to respond when you suspect someone is flirting with you
- Guide to flirting with plausibile deniability
Race, Gender & Sexuality
- Things I’ve learned about heterosexual female desire from decades Of reading
- Why being solo and poly has made me a happiness evangelist
- Sexiest man alive
- Male gamers only
- Race, immigration, and Hamilton : The relevance of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s new musical
- Where’s my cut? On unpaid emotional labor
- “Not So Bad”: On consent, non-consent, and trauma tw rape
- First and Last: Notes on Adoption and Names
- Chrysalis: Transitioning and my trans identity
- Bodies without malice: A short story
- Reading like a tomboy: Looking for myself in literature
- “Wicked”: Haters to the left
Filed under misc
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