look, clearly the cut has perfected running a certain style of self-aggrandizing, faux-searching but ultimately breezily exculpatory personal essay but oh my god www.thecut.com/article/eliz...
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oh...my god
aug 27, 2025, 6:55 am • 3 0 • view
Every time the Cut rejects a pitch, they are actually just reassuring that writer that she’s not as fucked up as she’d feared.
aug 27, 2025, 9:14 am • 32 2 • view
Good one.
aug 30, 2025, 5:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Pure fire from the website by and for people with personality disorders. Best one since shoebox full of money lady.
aug 27, 2025, 4:41 am • 31 1 • view
Holyyy shit
aug 27, 2025, 3:05 am • 2 0 • view
I googled Rayya Elias and she was very impressive. It’s sad if EG becomes her whole public story. Here’s a short doc & some of her music www.facebook.com/share/v/16t3...
aug 27, 2025, 5:08 am • 20 0 • view
i want to read this so bad but i don't subscribe to anything 😭
aug 27, 2025, 1:28 pm • 2 0 • view
Removepaywalls.com
aug 28, 2025, 4:50 pm • 1 0 • view
same
aug 27, 2025, 7:40 pm • 1 0 • view
this worked! bsky.app/profile/flee...
aug 27, 2025, 9:03 pm • 1 0 • view
i always wonder if the people who write these know what kind of thing theyre writing from the jump or if their editor is serving the same function as a producer on a real housewives show
aug 27, 2025, 2:54 am • 103 1 • view
I mean she must have approved running this excerpt in particular! she isn’t some new, young writer lol
aug 27, 2025, 2:56 am • 39 0 • view
Ah I didn’t see the byline lol
aug 27, 2025, 2:56 am • 11 0 • view
First red flag display after 15 seconds of reading: when someone calls another human being “[their] safe person”
aug 27, 2025, 2:58 am • 40 0 • view
Read that phrase and the reaction was so viscetal that I could feel something primal in me trying to activate a threat display like a blue-ringed octopus.
aug 27, 2025, 3:53 am • 15 0 • view
I didn't see who it was until the pictures halfway through and omG
aug 27, 2025, 3:37 am • 2 0 • view
I don't even need to read it, all I need to see is "personal essay in The Cut" to know the person behind it should be exiled to a faraway desert island.
aug 27, 2025, 4:03 am • 26 1 • view
What the chicken-fried fuck!?! The author writes herself as a moral void. Jesus!
aug 27, 2025, 3:50 am • 9 0 • view
This is the kind of thing you write on Death Row after your last appeal gets laughed out.
aug 27, 2025, 7:22 pm • 9 0 • view
It's 'from hell's heart, I stab at thee' stuff.
aug 27, 2025, 7:22 pm • 4 0 • view
yes… ha ha ha.. YES!
aug 28, 2025, 1:54 am • 3 0 • view
haha I guess you didn't see her FB post about this back in 2016 😬
aug 27, 2025, 8:05 pm • 0 0 • view
I did QC for a big chunk of the audiobook in June and I had to pause and say wtf out loud so many times
aug 27, 2025, 4:07 am • 66 1 • view
wait... THAT Elizabeth Gilbert??
aug 27, 2025, 12:08 pm • 25 0 • view
That’s what I said!!!
aug 27, 2025, 2:38 pm • 3 0 • view
God dammit that's definitely selling me on it. See you guys on the other side.
aug 27, 2025, 3:19 am • 1 0 • view
NYM getting dragged again, nature is healing.
aug 27, 2025, 1:38 pm • 3 0 • view
Somehow the paragraph where she coyly avoids describing the sex seems more perverse than if she’d just written a Penthouse Forum letter.
aug 27, 2025, 7:03 pm • 7 0 • view
Not having clicked on the story yet, I thought she was talking about the dating app
aug 27, 2025, 2:59 am • 7 0 • view
JUST WAIT
aug 27, 2025, 2:59 am • 45 0 • view
I WAS NOT PREPARED OH MY GOD
aug 27, 2025, 3:04 am • 40 0 • view
obviously the decision to leave or not leave a terminally ill partner with an active addiction has got to be harrowing but you could also, I don’t know, not publish a book about it??????????
aug 27, 2025, 3:06 am • 120 3 • view
There’s also the part where she encouraged her to relapse 😬😬😐
aug 28, 2025, 5:01 am • 1 0 • view
or approve an excerpt in which you are depicted as the brave victim of this circumstance
aug 27, 2025, 3:13 am • 66 0 • view
Oh but it seems you missed the part where she attempted to murder her sick, dying partner
aug 28, 2025, 4:59 am • 9 1 • view
THIS IS THE WORST PART FOR ME. It sounds like a terrible situation to be in so I don't want to be like "I would make such better decisions" but the worst decision made here is Gilbert, publishing a book, airing out her "friend"'s last days after she's dead, presumably for profit
aug 27, 2025, 3:12 am • 21 0 • view
lol I am noping out right now. whatever it is, I don't need to know
aug 27, 2025, 3:37 am • 10 0 • view
Listen,,,, I think Liz Gilbert’s addicted to attention
aug 27, 2025, 3:09 am • 38 0 • view
So I feel like I might have missed this part in the Cut article as I’m reading the New Yorker article www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
aug 27, 2025, 3:13 am • 174 13 • view
To be fair, The Cut ran an excerpt which is clearly a patchwork from all over the book. But it's good to know even The Cut is like "yeah that's too much"
aug 27, 2025, 12:51 pm • 22 0 • view
That is definitely not in the cut version
aug 27, 2025, 3:58 am • 1 0 • view
I subscribed to the New Yorker just so I could read that article, and wow WTF That she still seems to see herself as a relatable everywoman might be the most insane part, and I don't use that word lightly, girlie is sick.
aug 27, 2025, 2:50 pm • 12 0 • view
Yeah who among us has not abandoned our second spouse to spend millions helping our dying bff/lover jump gleefully off the sobriety wagon in a manic haze until we became the Real Victim™️ of their terminal suffering
aug 28, 2025, 5:09 am • 8 0 • view
Just another Wednesday, amirite 💅
aug 28, 2025, 5:18 am • 1 0 • view
And they say Americans don't know how to have friends anymore.
aug 27, 2025, 7:19 pm • 2 0 • view
@ilikemints.bsky.social there are so many layers here that I feel like it's your exact element
aug 27, 2025, 4:15 am • 3 0 • view
what the damn hell
aug 27, 2025, 2:00 pm • 2 0 • view
Including jia tolentino doing the new Yorker writeup
aug 27, 2025, 9:18 pm • 4 0 • view
I read that earlier and woof is it vicious
aug 28, 2025, 4:53 am • 2 0 • view
for sure but she's also a figure of internet lore
aug 28, 2025, 4:56 am • 1 0 • view
I definitely saw the line about women's capacity to seek rediscovery and validation then start the cycle anew, "myself included," and thought, hmmmm
aug 28, 2025, 4:58 am • 3 0 • view
she just like me fr
aug 27, 2025, 3:46 am • 6 0 • view
i gotta say if i get terminal cancer i want a rich enabler who will score me cocaine and heroin, even if it inspires a bit of blood lust
aug 27, 2025, 1:33 pm • 22 0 • view
That's taking her entitlement schtick way farther than expected
aug 27, 2025, 1:44 pm • 4 0 • view
WHAT
aug 27, 2025, 3:15 am • 87 0 • view
There’s an also bonkers follow up in the second half of the article on that
aug 27, 2025, 3:16 am • 46 0 • view
i just read the NYer piece and wow
aug 27, 2025, 3:49 am • 8 0 • view
This is Misty from Yellowjackets meets Hugo Schwyzer energy I cannot
aug 28, 2025, 1:32 am • 9 0 • view
The Cut really let her bury the lede (oh wait is that in poor taste??)
aug 28, 2025, 5:04 am • 2 0 • view
If there’s poor taste here, it’s not yours. She tried to kill a dying woman - a woman who had worked for her and who was dependent on her for a place to live - for what? The crime of not dying quick enough? For daring to last beyond their planned “beautiful” tragic love story? Ugh.
aug 28, 2025, 2:58 pm • 6 0 • view
admitting to attempted murder in my memoir
aug 27, 2025, 3:24 am • 90 1 • view
She did it. She managed to make her friend dying all about her.
aug 27, 2025, 2:57 am • 142 3 • view
“I hear you,” I replied. “And I accept that you’re dying.”
aug 27, 2025, 3:17 am • 67 0 • view
Me when android warns me that my battery life is low.
aug 28, 2025, 1:27 am • 1 0 • view
“I’m listening and learning about your imminent demise. I’m holding space for you because even though you’re about to croak, you 👏🏻 are 👏🏻 valid 👏🏻”
aug 27, 2025, 3:50 am • 43 0 • view
you know a story is QUALITY, EDITORS VERY PROUD when the archive version has this many updates within literal hours
aug 27, 2025, 3:06 am • 64 1 • view
And it gets worse! archive.ph/SvEt1
aug 27, 2025, 3:15 am • 19 0 • view
As shocking as some of the revaluations are, this article kind of sucks and reminds me when I had to up word counts for essays I wrote in school. Like they go over her whole career and about everything she has written and it adds pretty much nothing
aug 27, 2025, 7:36 pm • 1 0 • view
[Nathan Fillion repeatedly trying and failing to say anything dot gif]
aug 27, 2025, 9:15 pm • 8 1 • view
I feel confident I am not her!
aug 27, 2025, 9:20 pm • 6 0 • view
And these are things she CHOSE to share.
aug 27, 2025, 11:48 am • 15 0 • view
And that survived an editing process, presumably!
aug 27, 2025, 11:55 am • 7 0 • view
What's the statute of limitations on attempted murder, I wonder?
aug 28, 2025, 3:28 pm • 2 0 • view
deeply wondering if a lawyer looked at this before publishing!
aug 28, 2025, 3:29 pm • 3 0 • view
But then we'd have to put up with her writing about her spiritual awakening in prison .... I've been hoping she'd go away since like 1997.
aug 28, 2025, 3:31 pm • 3 0 • view
I really wonder at the veracity of the forgiveness scene
aug 28, 2025, 5:02 am • 1 0 • view
We’re just supposed to believe that happened that way when the other person in the scenario is dead so we can’t actually ask what happened!
aug 28, 2025, 11:49 am • 2 0 • view
To be fair, if I were the editor, I would 100% let her dig her own grave with this, but that is probably also why I wouldn’t be a very good editor
aug 27, 2025, 12:03 pm • 15 0 • view
Of a certain kind, perhaps. :)
aug 27, 2025, 12:04 pm • 1 0 • view
SO MUCH WORSE
aug 28, 2025, 5:01 am • 1 0 • view
What an EXHAUSTING person she is.
aug 27, 2025, 4:35 am • 2 0 • view
This is not the point but agree, Coyote Ugly is basically a perfect film.
aug 27, 2025, 3:44 am • 8 0 • view
The red flag factory ran out of flags long before I got to the “breakup” speech.
aug 28, 2025, 1:26 am • 12 0 • view
Ok but did you read the New Yorker?? Because The Cut leaves some things out
aug 28, 2025, 4:57 am • 7 0 • view
They suuuuuuure did.
aug 28, 2025, 5:13 am • 4 0 • view
this is just sad and weird in a way i can't laugh at. which are things i'm normally very good at overlooking
aug 27, 2025, 3:26 am • 95 0 • view
It’s disturbed me to my core.
aug 28, 2025, 12:28 am • 0 0 • view
It's once-in-a-million-years because literally everyone plus several various species knew better.
aug 29, 2025, 3:45 am • 0 0 • view
Yeah, I read it to join the conversation and mostly found it very, very sad
aug 27, 2025, 1:35 pm • 8 0 • view
yep. codependence and recovery from it are definitely very high on the heaviness richter scale
aug 27, 2025, 7:35 pm • 5 0 • view