<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[𝐯𝐨[𝐧𝐠𝐚]𝐢👸🏾]]></title><description><![CDATA[𝐝𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐰𝐚𝐲💐.]]></description><link>https://ykvongai.substack.com</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_hGa!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7df0781d-9c24-41ae-a829-4df683574d4b_608x608.png</url><title>𝐯𝐨[𝐧𝐠𝐚]𝐢👸🏾</title><link>https://ykvongai.substack.com</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 13:54:10 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://ykvongai.substack.com/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[𝐯𝐨[𝐧𝐠𝐚]𝐢👸🏾]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[ykvongai@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[ykvongai@substack.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[𝐯𝐨[𝐧𝐠𝐚]𝐢👸🏾]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[𝐯𝐨[𝐧𝐠𝐚]𝐢👸🏾]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[ykvongai@substack.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[ykvongai@substack.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[𝐯𝐨[𝐧𝐠𝐚]𝐢👸🏾]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[Confessions from the eldest daughter]]></title><description><![CDATA[I know it&#8217;s probably a taboo to say this but , I hate my mom.]]></description><link>https://ykvongai.substack.com/p/confessions-from-the-eldest-daughter</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://ykvongai.substack.com/p/confessions-from-the-eldest-daughter</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[𝐯𝐨[𝐧𝐠𝐚]𝐢👸🏾]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 20:12:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0eba0336-5a1b-4e12-a008-7473504f339f_1200x400.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I know it&#8217;s probably a taboo to say this but , I hate my mom.</p><p>No. Not in the I want to kill her type of way but I&#8217;m just mentally exhausted. I hate how I&#8217;m everything to her. A therapist, advisor, friend , daughter, a second parent, a punching bag, an existing person.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ykvongai.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://ykvongai.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>My mom is a motor cause factor for my mental health, trusts issues and just being avoidant. Sometimes I wish she wasn&#8217;t my mom. I feel like her becoming a mom and a wife made her bitter and angry and just turning into this person with an evil angry look in their eyes every time someone does a minor mistake.</p><p>A part of me wishes she chose herself instead. Chased whatever goals and dreams she had before becoming a mom. Yes I know she sacrifices a lot for me but I wish she didn&#8217;t have to. Why can&#8217;t it be easier for her?</p><p>I hate having to carry her problems as my own and even having to hear about them. I get so tired.</p><p>I get this agitated, irritated feel whenever I have to talk to my mom. I love her to bits but I hate her as a person. I hope she heals but for now, I&#8217;m still angry.</p><div class="community-chat" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://open.substack.com/pub/ykvongai/chat?utm_source=chat_embed&quot;,&quot;subdomain&quot;:&quot;ykvongai&quot;,&quot;pub&quot;:{&quot;id&quot;:6548021,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;&#119855;&#119848;[&#119847;&#119840;&#119834;]&#119842;&#128120;&#127998;&quot;,&quot;author_name&quot;:&quot;&#119855;&#119848;[&#119847;&#119840;&#119834;]&#119842;&#128120;&#127998;&quot;,&quot;author_photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eP5T!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F777a0fa5-9f2d-48dd-aef5-e8dcaf4d3aff_734x524.png&quot;}}" data-component-name="CommunityChatRenderPlaceholder"></div><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is misogyny in rap songs so normalised?]]></title><description><![CDATA[how it feels to be a woman listening to mainstream rap.]]></description><link>https://ykvongai.substack.com/p/why-is-misogyny-in-rap-songs-so-normalised</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://ykvongai.substack.com/p/why-is-misogyny-in-rap-songs-so-normalised</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[𝐯𝐨[𝐧𝐠𝐚]𝐢👸🏾]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 16:47:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/6f017c90-2a4f-4c2b-8d36-cf6f5b25d458_750x250.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you listen actively to mainstream rap as a woman, the lyrics can be uncomfortable. Don&#8217;t get me wrong the beats are catchy and all but the meanings and lyrics behind them are concerning and dehumanising at most.</p><p>Much of mainstream music talks about abusing women, using them and mistreating them. Most lyrics are dismissed as &#8216;just music&#8217; yet repetition normalises disrespect. This repeated exposure makes certain language feel normal rather than extreme.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ykvongai.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://ykvongai.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>As a woman, it&#8217;s so alienating because you&#8217;re expected to tolerate constant degradation if you&#8217;re gonna enjoy the music. Honestly, when a rap song starts sounding too violent and misogynistic i just end up turning it off.</p><p>Many mainstream songs avoid referring to women as human beings instead replacing the word &#8216;women&#8217; with hostile labels and slurs. Kinda sucks that you can only ever enjoy it if you&#8217;re okay with being called a &#8216;bitch&#8217;, &#8216;whore&#8217; or &#8216;slut&#8217; unprovoked, for no actual reason. Why does no one ever talk about this?</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ykvongai.substack.com/p/why-is-misogyny-in-rap-songs-so-normalised?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://ykvongai.substack.com/p/why-is-misogyny-in-rap-songs-so-normalised?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p>Not only that, it also glamorises sexual violence towards women. Lyrics such as &#8220;put molly in her champagne, she ain&#8217;t even know it&#8221; or &#8220;took her home and enjoyed that, she ain&#8217;t even know&#8221;frame sexual coercion or violence as casual or consequence-free. Some lyrics go beyond objectification and begin to normalise coercion, manipulation, and even sexual violence. Why is such culture being encouraged?</p><iframe class="spotify-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;image&quot;:&quot;https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b2738d63ee9c869c64607624d1a3&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;U.O.E.N.O. (feat. Rick Ross, Future)&quot;,&quot;subtitle&quot;:&quot;Rocko&quot;,&quot;description&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://open.spotify.com/track/0HFrCOmhCYXlv4NdEwRAuj&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;noScroll&quot;:false}" src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/0HFrCOmhCYXlv4NdEwRAuj" frameborder="0" gesture="media" allowfullscreen="true" allow="encrypted-media" data-component-name="Spotify2ToDOM"></iframe><p>At the same time women get criticised for listening to feminine music with artists such as Taylor Swift yet there&#8217;s no hate for misogynistic music. In fact they call us crazy and &#8220;too woke&#8221; for even bringing it up.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ykvongai.substack.com/p/why-is-misogyny-in-rap-songs-so-normalised/comments&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://ykvongai.substack.com/p/why-is-misogyny-in-rap-songs-so-normalised/comments"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><p>If such music is normalised, what does it mean for how young boys view girls in general?<strong> </strong>Music contributes to cultural attitudes even if it doesn&#8217;t directly cause behaviour and for listeners who are being described in these lyrics, it doesn&#8217;t feel abstract rather normal.</p><p>In conclusion, this is not about censoring music, but about recognising patterns in what is being normalised .Mainstream music deserves more critical attention when it comes to how women are represented, and what that representation reinforces over time.</p><div class="community-chat" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://open.substack.com/pub/ykvongai/chat?utm_source=chat_embed&quot;,&quot;subdomain&quot;:&quot;ykvongai&quot;,&quot;pub&quot;:{&quot;id&quot;:6548021,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;&#119855;&#119848;[&#119847;&#119840;&#119834;]&#119842;&#128120;&#127998;&quot;,&quot;author_name&quot;:&quot;&#119855;&#119848;[&#119847;&#119840;&#119834;]&#119842;&#128120;&#127998;&quot;,&quot;author_photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kw8Y!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fec7e6d74-1692-4be6-aae5-9c7b67b3f877_875x877.png&quot;}}" data-component-name="CommunityChatRenderPlaceholder"></div><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[the HOME I left as a child]]></title><description><![CDATA[a child on nowhere.]]></description><link>https://ykvongai.substack.com/p/the-home-i-left-as-a-child</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://ykvongai.substack.com/p/the-home-i-left-as-a-child</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[𝐯𝐨[𝐧𝐠𝐚]𝐢👸🏾]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 11:36:32 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/5150a136-d026-4806-ab4a-7b417990e18c_1200x1600.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>the country I left as a child that</p><p>lies beneath the southern dry sky haunts my voice in every</p><p>&#8216;where are you from&#8217;</p><p>no but</p><p>&#8216;where are you REALLY from&#8217;?</p><p>I do not belong.</p><p>I lost a whole continent from my memory in which</p><p>hiareth gropes my throat</p><p>reminding me,</p><p>each day</p><p>&#8216;I can never go back&#8217;</p><p>as so my mother says,</p><p>but what happens when lacuna lingers in my heart</p><p>wondering what could&#8217;ve been, where I could be.</p><p>Where I came from,</p><p>I am unwelcome.</p><p>I&#8217;m disappearing.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ykvongai.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://ykvongai.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>I don&#8217;t know where I&#8217;m going.</p><p>My voice being a product of 2 cultures clashing but my blood made of gold and butter which breaks my mouth in which I don&#8217;t know how to say &#8216;hello&#8217; without sounding not enough. I never thought of doing.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ykvongai.substack.com/p/the-home-i-left-as-a-child?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://ykvongai.substack.com/p/the-home-i-left-as-a-child?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong I&#8217;m proud of my heritage,but what does heritage mean when it chases fire under my feet with leaders so corrupt it turns my heart black and solution is sun in frozen.</p><p>But I&#8217;ve been there, breathed there, grown there yet I&#8217;m undisguised in my own land. 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isPermaLink="false">https://ykvongai.substack.com/p/2da</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[𝐯𝐨[𝐧𝐠𝐚]𝐢👸🏾]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 11:21:38 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a16288b0-4140-4c7f-932b-f7c6518583ad_1200x675.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After the last bell for Friday rings,</p><p>everyone excited</p><p>for the weekend</p><p>And I&#8217;m still</p><p>contemplating on convincing myself it&#8217;s</p><p>ok to be alone.</p><p>I say a little prayer,</p><p>&#8220;Lord if I&#8217;m meant to alone,</p><p>I rather not have anyone interfere&#8221;.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ykvongai.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://ykvongai.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>But I can&#8217;t help the fact</p><p>I like to alone,</p><p>that&#8217;s just what I seem to know.</p><p>And that&#8217;s my red flag.</p><p>Subconsciously</p><p>I&#8217;m prepared</p><p>to spend the rest of my life by myself.</p><p>Im surrounded by people</p><p>but it&#8217;s crazy cause</p><p>I don&#8217;t have anyone.</p><p>atleast I have me?</p><p>I yearn for a friend group</p><p>I can tell all my secrets to</p><p>and take</p><p>group photos with,</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ykvongai.substack.com/p/2da?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://ykvongai.substack.com/p/2da?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p>but why am I so alone.</p><p>why can&#8217;t I stay.</p><p>but its fine.</p><p>It&#8217;s good to be alone.</p><p>It&#8217;s fine.</p><p>It&#8217;s ok.</p><p>I&#8217;m ok.</p><div class="community-chat" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://open.substack.com/pub/ykvongai/chat?utm_source=chat_embed&quot;,&quot;subdomain&quot;:&quot;ykvongai&quot;,&quot;pub&quot;:{&quot;id&quot;:6548021,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;&#119855;&#119848;[&#119847;&#119840;&#119834;]&#119842;&#128120;&#127998;&quot;,&quot;author_name&quot;:&quot;&#119855;&#119848;[&#119847;&#119840;&#119834;]&#119842;&#128120;&#127998;&quot;,&quot;author_photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ArS0!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe2c1bfb5-400a-4854-8034-437db0d91111_490x488.png&quot;}}" data-component-name="CommunityChatRenderPlaceholder"></div><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[💋]]></title><description><![CDATA[-african.]]></description><link>https://ykvongai.substack.com/p/7f3</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://ykvongai.substack.com/p/7f3</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[𝐯𝐨[𝐧𝐠𝐚]𝐢👸🏾]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 12:57:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/6b9dec64-024f-48f4-957f-56e62302b17a_500x370.gif" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Growing up,</p><p>I&#8217;ve grown to love</p><p>every &#8220;C&#8221; that curves</p><p>my body and every</p><p>stretch mark that ploughs into my porcelain pearl skin</p><p>from my coily curls</p><p>to my desert almond eyes</p><p>I glow</p><p>and I tell a story.</p><div class="community-chat" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://open.substack.com/pub/ykvongai/chat?utm_source=chat_embed&quot;,&quot;subdomain&quot;:&quot;ykvongai&quot;,&quot;pub&quot;:{&quot;id&quot;:6548021,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;&#119855;&#119848;[&#119847;&#119840;&#119834;]&#119842;&#128120;&#127998;&quot;,&quot;author_name&quot;:&quot;&#119855;&#119848;[&#119847;&#119840;&#119834;]&#119842;&#128120;&#127998;&quot;,&quot;author_photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ArS0!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe2c1bfb5-400a-4854-8034-437db0d91111_490x488.png&quot;}}" data-component-name="CommunityChatRenderPlaceholder"></div><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nonchalance is the new insecurity.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Everyone looks good, but why are we so boring?]]></description><link>https://ykvongai.substack.com/p/nonchalance-is-the-new-insecurity</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://ykvongai.substack.com/p/nonchalance-is-the-new-insecurity</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[𝐯𝐨[𝐧𝐠𝐚]𝐢👸🏾]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:47:54 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/2c5715cc-0156-44d9-983e-a2b1883ce7d0_720x674.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<iframe class="spotify-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;image&quot;:&quot;https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b2731f88f87d7b1df743015cacac&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Sunshine, Lollipops And Rainbows&quot;,&quot;subtitle&quot;:&quot;Lesley Gore&quot;,&quot;description&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://open.spotify.com/track/0AZb6ryK8LsFcvY1jWHO61&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;noScroll&quot;:false}" src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/0AZb6ryK8LsFcvY1jWHO61" frameborder="0" gesture="media" allowfullscreen="true" allow="encrypted-media" data-component-name="Spotify2ToDOM"></iframe><p>Being good looking is slowly becoming irrelevant. Everyone&#8217;s so obsessed with how they look, it&#8217;s a bit sickening. Everyone( most people) has clear skin, tea outfits, perfect angles and so we&#8217;re gonna reach a point where everyone looks good. Like I mean almost everyone has the same aesthetic, same faces. And so because of this, you&#8217;ll be very much exposed for having a personality of a brick. Be you.(please)</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!S0sm!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd49806a4-b859-471d-ae2f-119a00528bbb_1200x1200.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!S0sm!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd49806a4-b859-471d-ae2f-119a00528bbb_1200x1200.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!S0sm!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd49806a4-b859-471d-ae2f-119a00528bbb_1200x1200.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!S0sm!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd49806a4-b859-471d-ae2f-119a00528bbb_1200x1200.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!S0sm!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd49806a4-b859-471d-ae2f-119a00528bbb_1200x1200.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!S0sm!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd49806a4-b859-471d-ae2f-119a00528bbb_1200x1200.jpeg" width="1200" height="1200" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d49806a4-b859-471d-ae2f-119a00528bbb_1200x1200.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1200,&quot;width&quot;:1200,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:101914,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://ykvongai.substack.com/i/193883357?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd49806a4-b859-471d-ae2f-119a00528bbb_1200x1200.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!S0sm!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd49806a4-b859-471d-ae2f-119a00528bbb_1200x1200.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!S0sm!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd49806a4-b859-471d-ae2f-119a00528bbb_1200x1200.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!S0sm!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd49806a4-b859-471d-ae2f-119a00528bbb_1200x1200.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!S0sm!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd49806a4-b859-471d-ae2f-119a00528bbb_1200x1200.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>In a room full of people that look exactly like you, same aesthetic and all, personality is what makes you stand out. Looks may get you into the room but if everyone looks good then what? Personality often makes a lasting impression.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ykvongai.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://ykvongai.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>Like.Why is everyone so nonchalant? There&#8217;s been a high rise on the nonchalantness. If you ever try do anything it&#8217;s labelled as &#8216;embarrassing&#8217; or &#8216;uncool&#8217;. Like, I can&#8217;t even show any excitement or even double text cause wait, we have to be laid off on all that. 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Most times people who are dancing are the ones actually enjoying themselves and everyone normally gravitates towards that.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ykvongai.substack.com/p/nonchalance-is-the-new-insecurity/comments&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://ykvongai.substack.com/p/nonchalance-is-the-new-insecurity/comments"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><p>But if we&#8217;re being so real, I think the reason most people act like they don&#8217;t care is because they are so afraid of being hurt or are we just socially anxious? Please allow yourself to just be out there. Tell that person you like them because if you keep pretending nothing matters, nothing actually will. One day you&#8217;re gonna wake up and ask yourself &#8216;why don&#8217;t I feel alive&#8217; and why your days feel so repetitive and the answer is because you&#8217;ve been rehearsing this &#8216;nonchalantness&#8217; for years. This serious rise of nonchalantness is killing passion. There&#8217;s so many lost hobbies.</p><p>Passion requires you to be vulnerable, be passionate about what you do. Stop playing it safe. Life is like a basketball(I believe) so shoot your shot. Do whatever you like.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Od3p!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fad1189cb-3e7c-437a-bf64-fa903c27e0d1_1179x919.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Od3p!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fad1189cb-3e7c-437a-bf64-fa903c27e0d1_1179x919.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Od3p!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fad1189cb-3e7c-437a-bf64-fa903c27e0d1_1179x919.jpeg 848w, 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People who are known to be &#8216;cringe&#8217; are usually the most confident yet memorable. Set yourself apart and just be you. Be cringe, be corny, be alive. Stop being like everyone else. And like the golden saying &#8216;to be cringe is to be free&#8217;.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rBbo!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffa78637a-d67f-47a2-92d3-84a5ace1a2f6_1199x1415.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rBbo!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffa78637a-d67f-47a2-92d3-84a5ace1a2f6_1199x1415.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rBbo!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffa78637a-d67f-47a2-92d3-84a5ace1a2f6_1199x1415.jpeg 848w, 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isPermaLink="false">https://ykvongai.substack.com/p/whiplash-of-blue</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[𝐯𝐨[𝐧𝐠𝐚]𝐢👸🏾]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:01:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f268e68b-1bc2-4c94-946a-91597e4fa914_735x245.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> </p><iframe class="spotify-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;image&quot;:&quot;https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b2732bad6e56e77d5bef0aa3f2dc&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Baby Blue (Feat. Norwill Simmonds)&quot;,&quot;subtitle&quot;:&quot;Daniel Caesar, Norwill Simmonds&quot;,&quot;description&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://open.spotify.com/track/10XPqtGklNRy9p6rTpFyba&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;noScroll&quot;:false}" src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/10XPqtGklNRy9p6rTpFyba" frameborder="0" gesture="media" allowfullscreen="true" allow="encrypted-media" data-component-name="Spotify2ToDOM"></iframe><p>Its strange the way you make me feel.</p><p>with just a word or two I&#8217;d like to do the same for you.</p><p>when I think of you as a whole,aura just is.</p><p>blue is deffo your colour.</p><p>mostly cause yeah it is, aura and calm, just is.</p><p>when I picture how,</p><p>and what your soul look like,</p><p>it&#8217;s this whiplash of blue.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ykvongai.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://ykvongai.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>mostly coz it&#8217;s gentle and looks like the nights clear sky on a full moons day,</p><p>with bright yellow stars that resemble your golden laugh or when you slyly make 6-7 jokes(which I still laugh at coz it&#8217;s coming from you)</p><p>but also flashes red when you seriously pmo</p><p>it&#8217;s a breath of fresh air.</p><p>but with a hug and loads of laughs and kisses (I cry at times).</p><p>I can&#8217;t help but miss you everyday despite communicating on a basis.</p><p>I wish I knew you sooner.</p><p>talked more.</p><p>said more.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ykvongai.substack.com/p/whiplash-of-blue?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://ykvongai.substack.com/p/whiplash-of-blue?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p>I like the way you say my name,</p><p>I really do.</p><p>not very fast or slow,</p><p>I feel the same way too.</p><p>in all clears night</p><p>I can&#8217;t help but think of a pink blush</p><p>lashed out cause I&#8217;m this big pink ball just splashed everywhere.</p><p>coz it&#8217;s scattered.</p><p>my love must be a kind of blind, love</p><p>I see you.</p><p>just you.</p><p>eyes for you.</p><p>I had no chance to prepare</p><p>So hold me down.</p><div class="community-chat" 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isPermaLink="false">https://ykvongai.substack.com/p/ad-astra</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[𝐯𝐨[𝐧𝐠𝐚]𝐢👸🏾]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:35:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/7a968fa1-c3e8-4e1c-bc55-37520b98e619_1200x1218.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><iframe class="spotify-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;image&quot;:&quot;https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b273c5649add07ed3720be9d5526&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Godspeed&quot;,&quot;subtitle&quot;:&quot;Frank Ocean&quot;,&quot;description&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://open.spotify.com/track/34xTFwjPQ1dC6uJmleno7x&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;noScroll&quot;:false}" src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/34xTFwjPQ1dC6uJmleno7x" frameborder="0" gesture="media" allowfullscreen="true" allow="encrypted-media" data-component-name="Spotify2ToDOM"></iframe><p>I&#8217;ve always been a loner child</p><p>Always been alone.</p><p>Everyone always ends up leaving or I intentionally make them leave and so when you were brought in my life I really did believe it was a forever thing.</p><p>From the moment you asked me to be your girlfriend, I gave you all the love I had.</p><p>I loved you so much</p><p>and honestly maybe a bit too much to the point it got so overwhelming for even me.</p><p>This is because I thought we were forever so I gave it my all.</p><p>My very all.</p><p>My time,</p><p>My mind,</p><p>Every bit of my attention and me.</p><p>My entirety depended on you.</p><p>From the moment I woke up and till I went to sleep you were always on my mind.</p><p>Maybe it might&#8217;ve been an unhealthy obsession but you were all I wanted.</p><p>And that was so unfair and overwhelming on you.</p><p>I couldn&#8217;t softly.</p><p class="button-wrapper" 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Desperately.</p><p>But all things come to pass I guess, that&#8217;s how it&#8217;s always been.</p><p>The Bible and everyone says love is patient and kind and so if it fails it was never love but it never actually is when it&#8217;s shared but I have to let go.</p><p>I&#8217;d like to thank you from the deepest part of my heart for all the love we shared.</p><p>I learnt so much from you, we all are a part of experiences we shared.</p><div class="directMessage button" data-attrs="{&quot;userId&quot;:402039346,&quot;userName&quot;:&quot;&#119855;&#119848;[&#119847;&#119840;&#119834;]&#119842;&#128120;&#127998;&quot;,&quot;canDm&quot;:null,&quot;dmUpgradeOptions&quot;:null,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}" data-component-name="DirectMessageToDOM"></div><p>Also I lied you were in fact my fav person,(you were my only person) but maybe I just wasn&#8217;t yours and so that bothered me and that was a problem to me.</p><p>I never asked for much, I just needed you to be there.</p><p>But at the same time you very much were always there, i guess.</p><p>But I know I&#8217;ll love you always and I wish you Godspeed.</p><div class="community-chat" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://open.substack.com/pub/ykvongai/chat?utm_source=chat_embed&quot;,&quot;subdomain&quot;:&quot;ykvongai&quot;,&quot;pub&quot;:{&quot;id&quot;:6548021,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;&#119855;&#119848;[&#119847;&#119840;&#119834;]&#119842;&#128120;&#127998;&quot;,&quot;author_name&quot;:&quot;&#119855;&#119848;[&#119847;&#119840;&#119834;]&#119842;&#128120;&#127998;&quot;,&quot;author_photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ArS0!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe2c1bfb5-400a-4854-8034-437db0d91111_490x488.png&quot;}}" data-component-name="CommunityChatRenderPlaceholder"></div><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[#doitscared became personality]]></title><description><![CDATA[&#119849;&#119851;&#119842;&#119847;&#119836;&#119838;&#119852;&#119852; &#119829;&#119848;&#119847;&#119840;&#119834;&#119842; &#119837;&#119842;&#119834;&#119842;&#119851;&#119838;&#119852; &#119849;&#119853;.&#120786;]]></description><link>https://ykvongai.substack.com/p/doitscared-became-personality</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://ykvongai.substack.com/p/doitscared-became-personality</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[𝐯𝐨[𝐧𝐠𝐚]𝐢👸🏾]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 11:42:29 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/2901b701-c580-4cc6-a907-93bf788de243_712x712.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><a href="https://www.instagram.com/yk.vongai?igsh=Zm13YzE0YjBxaHYx&amp;utm_source=qr">Personally</a> I feel I&#8217;ve &#8216;embarrassed&#8217; myself enough times to second think</strong> anything I do. Doing it scared yes. That&#8217;s my superpower and to be fair it has healed my what so called social anxiety.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ovyp!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F55865573-4332-4655-8d5d-1a0a3ae308d1_1199x1160.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ovyp!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F55865573-4332-4655-8d5d-1a0a3ae308d1_1199x1160.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ovyp!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F55865573-4332-4655-8d5d-1a0a3ae308d1_1199x1160.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ovyp!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F55865573-4332-4655-8d5d-1a0a3ae308d1_1199x1160.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ovyp!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F55865573-4332-4655-8d5d-1a0a3ae308d1_1199x1160.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ovyp!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F55865573-4332-4655-8d5d-1a0a3ae308d1_1199x1160.jpeg" width="1199" height="1160" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/55865573-4332-4655-8d5d-1a0a3ae308d1_1199x1160.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1160,&quot;width&quot;:1199,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:115213,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://ykvongai.substack.com/i/192598678?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F55865573-4332-4655-8d5d-1a0a3ae308d1_1199x1160.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ovyp!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F55865573-4332-4655-8d5d-1a0a3ae308d1_1199x1160.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ovyp!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F55865573-4332-4655-8d5d-1a0a3ae308d1_1199x1160.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ovyp!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F55865573-4332-4655-8d5d-1a0a3ae308d1_1199x1160.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ovyp!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F55865573-4332-4655-8d5d-1a0a3ae308d1_1199x1160.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>As someone who is an aspiring writer,  journalist and blogger second hand embarrassment is light work for me. Having to promote my stuff just after posting a thirst trap is just as confusing for my audience(who are mostly women) but we gotta pull this through. I might even promote this i don&#8217;t know.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ykvongai.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://ykvongai.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>But all through that it really has helped me not care as much anymore. Cause hey &#8216;embarrassment is key to success&#8217; as they say, as so I believe. And it helped me realise life is way too short to overthink. Plus most times no one cares too much aswell. Everyone is thinking of themselves.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!47tc!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff21162cb-ee0f-49b1-b9cf-498dd1caeca6_1080x843.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!47tc!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff21162cb-ee0f-49b1-b9cf-498dd1caeca6_1080x843.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!47tc!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff21162cb-ee0f-49b1-b9cf-498dd1caeca6_1080x843.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!47tc!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff21162cb-ee0f-49b1-b9cf-498dd1caeca6_1080x843.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!47tc!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff21162cb-ee0f-49b1-b9cf-498dd1caeca6_1080x843.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!47tc!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff21162cb-ee0f-49b1-b9cf-498dd1caeca6_1080x843.jpeg" width="1080" height="843" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f21162cb-ee0f-49b1-b9cf-498dd1caeca6_1080x843.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:843,&quot;width&quot;:1080,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:90531,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://ykvongai.substack.com/i/192598678?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff21162cb-ee0f-49b1-b9cf-498dd1caeca6_1080x843.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!47tc!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff21162cb-ee0f-49b1-b9cf-498dd1caeca6_1080x843.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!47tc!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff21162cb-ee0f-49b1-b9cf-498dd1caeca6_1080x843.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!47tc!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff21162cb-ee0f-49b1-b9cf-498dd1caeca6_1080x843.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!47tc!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff21162cb-ee0f-49b1-b9cf-498dd1caeca6_1080x843.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Doing it sacred has increased my engagement and outreach (in my publications) atleast I&#8217;m there, I guess. Despite already having a high self esteem, I trust and have much more confidence in myself. I got so much more opportunities and chances(not to mention huzz that comes along) I really am #blessed.</p><p>But in fair, you need to start getting up and doing it anyways. Don&#8217;t let perfectionism be an excuse for your procrastination. You got this queen,#togetherwecan.</p><p>That&#8217;s all for today.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hNPQ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5cc61202-0a44-4419-af65-1151a0d0d235_1200x1200.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hNPQ!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5cc61202-0a44-4419-af65-1151a0d0d235_1200x1200.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hNPQ!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5cc61202-0a44-4419-af65-1151a0d0d235_1200x1200.jpeg 848w, 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data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://open.substack.com/pub/ykvongai/chat?utm_source=chat_embed&quot;,&quot;subdomain&quot;:&quot;ykvongai&quot;,&quot;pub&quot;:{&quot;id&quot;:6548021,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;&#119855;&#119848;[&#119847;&#119840;&#119834;]&#119842;&#128120;&#127998;&quot;,&quot;author_name&quot;:&quot;&#119855;&#119848;[&#119847;&#119840;&#119834;]&#119842;&#128120;&#127998;&quot;,&quot;author_photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ArS0!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe2c1bfb5-400a-4854-8034-437db0d91111_490x488.png&quot;}}" data-component-name="CommunityChatRenderPlaceholder"></div><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who decides you’re ugly?]]></title><description><![CDATA[beauty is in the eye of the beholder]]></description><link>https://ykvongai.substack.com/p/who-decides-youre-ugly</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://ykvongai.substack.com/p/who-decides-youre-ugly</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[𝐯𝐨[𝐧𝐠𝐚]𝐢👸🏾]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 17:11:21 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/19f475f2-73a6-40cb-a54a-9c941b883617_936x312.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You&#8217;re not born knowing you&#8217;re ugly so who decides you are? In most cases it&#8217;s something you&#8217;re taught to believe through comparisons, reactions and the environments you move through.</p><iframe class="spotify-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;image&quot;:&quot;https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b2730a48794d471447a030998815&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Scars To Your Beautiful&quot;,&quot;subtitle&quot;:&quot;Alessia Cara&quot;,&quot;description&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://open.spotify.com/track/42ydLwx4i5V49RXHOozJZq&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;noScroll&quot;:false}" src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/42ydLwx4i5V49RXHOozJZq" frameborder="0" gesture="media" allowfullscreen="true" allow="encrypted-media" data-component-name="Spotify2ToDOM"></iframe><p>Beauty isn&#8217;t fixed, it shifts depending on who&#8217;s looking. Someone can look at you and see absolute beauty while someone else might not and to be fair both reactions can exist at the same time, and so don&#8217;t be disheartened.</p><p>This whole idea is linked back to beauty standards which in the other hand are a social construct.These therefore force people to internalise external opinions.The whole idea that you&#8217;re &#8216;ugly&#8217; isn&#8217;t usually discovered, it&#8217;s absorbed. It&#8217;s a result of repeated signals, comparisons and most subtle ways you are responded to by society.</p><p>We are all born beautiful, the biggest tragedy is convinced we are not. You are very much who you think you are.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ykvongai.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://ykvongai.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>Ok but on a real note, I do believe everyone issue is that they base their attractiveness on validation from others. Cause oh wait they don&#8217;t find me pretty so now im ugly. Like oh no. If you cannot look at yourself in the mirror and say &#8216;I&#8217;m beautiful&#8217; because others don&#8217;t say it there&#8217;s a real problem. You are beautiful.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8ebi!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa8a3948c-d6d3-41e8-9752-85ce3a842d78_1125x1082.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8ebi!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa8a3948c-d6d3-41e8-9752-85ce3a842d78_1125x1082.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8ebi!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa8a3948c-d6d3-41e8-9752-85ce3a842d78_1125x1082.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8ebi!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa8a3948c-d6d3-41e8-9752-85ce3a842d78_1125x1082.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8ebi!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa8a3948c-d6d3-41e8-9752-85ce3a842d78_1125x1082.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8ebi!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa8a3948c-d6d3-41e8-9752-85ce3a842d78_1125x1082.jpeg" width="1125" height="1082" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a8a3948c-d6d3-41e8-9752-85ce3a842d78_1125x1082.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1082,&quot;width&quot;:1125,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:89075,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://ykvongai.substack.com/i/192432186?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa8a3948c-d6d3-41e8-9752-85ce3a842d78_1125x1082.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8ebi!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa8a3948c-d6d3-41e8-9752-85ce3a842d78_1125x1082.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8ebi!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa8a3948c-d6d3-41e8-9752-85ce3a842d78_1125x1082.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8ebi!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa8a3948c-d6d3-41e8-9752-85ce3a842d78_1125x1082.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8ebi!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa8a3948c-d6d3-41e8-9752-85ce3a842d78_1125x1082.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>We need to stop waiting to be validated by others. Instead validate yourself. Be there for yourself. The most important person in our lives is us. If we don&#8217;t see ourselves as the actual baddest, girl get up. Cause we&#8217;re letting ourselves down. You&#8217;re beautiful because you&#8217;re you,authentic and unique. There&#8217;s only one actual you. Beauty standards are a man made concept anyways(just a reminder) so let&#8217;s fully embrace what we have.</p><p>Different features,proportions and expressions all carry their own kind of pressure, even if they aren&#8217;t always recognised in the same way by every standard.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ykvongai.substack.com/p/who-decides-youre-ugly/comments&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://ykvongai.substack.com/p/who-decides-youre-ugly/comments"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><p>If you feel as if you&#8217;re insecure, do things that make you feel you&#8217;re beautiful. Spend time becoming the best version of yourself. Everything about you is valid as it is. The best version of you doesn&#8217;t believe she&#8217;s ugly so have patience because you are a masterpiece in progress.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iiQH!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5f34f125-fdf5-4b11-a381-62b46297c344_1200x704.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iiQH!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5f34f125-fdf5-4b11-a381-62b46297c344_1200x704.jpeg 424w, 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data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://open.substack.com/pub/ykvongai/chat?utm_source=chat_embed&quot;,&quot;subdomain&quot;:&quot;ykvongai&quot;,&quot;pub&quot;:{&quot;id&quot;:6548021,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;&#119855;&#119848;[&#119847;&#119840;&#119834;]&#119842;&#128120;&#127998;&quot;,&quot;author_name&quot;:&quot;&#119855;&#119848;[&#119847;&#119840;&#119834;]&#119842;&#128120;&#127998;&quot;,&quot;author_photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ArS0!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe2c1bfb5-400a-4854-8034-437db0d91111_490x488.png&quot;}}" data-component-name="CommunityChatRenderPlaceholder"></div><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Girl attempts positive thinking]]></title><description><![CDATA[a little rant.&#127872;]]></description><link>https://ykvongai.substack.com/p/girl-attempts-positive-thinking</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://ykvongai.substack.com/p/girl-attempts-positive-thinking</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[𝐯𝐨[𝐧𝐠𝐚]𝐢👸🏾]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2026 14:23:46 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/32228fa0-fe61-42fb-bfca-45b50e966cb7_736x414.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tJk-!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb20c5634-97c6-4e85-b26d-ec31da831da7_612x205.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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class="image-caption">image by <a href="https://pin.it/TaSP4nLAi">Barbie</a></figcaption></figure></div><p>Ok so for March I decided to restart again, refresh completely. Started working out again, skincare, Bible study, school study, Psalms, being calm, affirmations, loving more being happy.  And while everything is going on well there&#8217;s like a slight problem. Me and J. like???</p><p>Does he seriously even still want me? It&#8217;s giving October all over again. Like everything was going on so well. And I&#8217;m not even usually the one having to worry about boys coz wth??</p><p>Had the loveliest week till Friday. I didn&#8217;t even go to school coz I got so irritated from the morning and I really couldn&#8217;t be bothered. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hYuq!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F258d8a38-bbe6-41e4-9233-4965e66567cc_680x227.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hYuq!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F258d8a38-bbe6-41e4-9233-4965e66567cc_680x227.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hYuq!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F258d8a38-bbe6-41e4-9233-4965e66567cc_680x227.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hYuq!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F258d8a38-bbe6-41e4-9233-4965e66567cc_680x227.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hYuq!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F258d8a38-bbe6-41e4-9233-4965e66567cc_680x227.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hYuq!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F258d8a38-bbe6-41e4-9233-4965e66567cc_680x227.jpeg" width="680" height="227" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/258d8a38-bbe6-41e4-9233-4965e66567cc_680x227.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:227,&quot;width&quot;:680,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:50651,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://ykvongai.substack.com/i/190195687?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F258d8a38-bbe6-41e4-9233-4965e66567cc_680x227.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hYuq!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F258d8a38-bbe6-41e4-9233-4965e66567cc_680x227.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hYuq!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F258d8a38-bbe6-41e4-9233-4965e66567cc_680x227.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hYuq!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F258d8a38-bbe6-41e4-9233-4965e66567cc_680x227.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hYuq!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F258d8a38-bbe6-41e4-9233-4965e66567cc_680x227.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">image by <a href="https://pin.it/5aUj6a1tn">Barbie</a></figcaption></figure></div><p>Like tell me why me why I wake up to no text from him even though Ik if he doesn&#8217;t reply the night before I can wake up to him saying sorry and leaving a message the morning of. But on Thursday when we last spoke, he didn&#8217;t even send a goodnight text?</p><p>Like we were literally still in the middle of having a great convo even though we hadn&#8217;t spoke for a long time , I can&#8217;t even remember well. </p><p>Like bro.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ykvongai.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://ykvongai.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>I literally text him and I&#8217;m all lovely while he&#8217;s giving below the barest minimum(not actually he&#8217;s actually really sweet and did ask how my day went and told me he was well) coz tell me why he starts asking if everything is ok after I game him a dry response </p><p>and it&#8217;s coz I&#8217;m disappointed in myself after I promised myself I wouldn&#8217;t speak to him till Sunday?(need to be getting my standards up high).</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SiLy!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd61dcc41-69cf-4f3c-8853-53e035da868e_1008x231.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SiLy!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd61dcc41-69cf-4f3c-8853-53e035da868e_1008x231.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SiLy!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd61dcc41-69cf-4f3c-8853-53e035da868e_1008x231.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SiLy!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd61dcc41-69cf-4f3c-8853-53e035da868e_1008x231.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SiLy!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd61dcc41-69cf-4f3c-8853-53e035da868e_1008x231.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SiLy!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd61dcc41-69cf-4f3c-8853-53e035da868e_1008x231.jpeg" width="1008" height="231" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d61dcc41-69cf-4f3c-8853-53e035da868e_1008x231.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:231,&quot;width&quot;:1008,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:39271,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://ykvongai.substack.com/i/190195687?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd61dcc41-69cf-4f3c-8853-53e035da868e_1008x231.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SiLy!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd61dcc41-69cf-4f3c-8853-53e035da868e_1008x231.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SiLy!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd61dcc41-69cf-4f3c-8853-53e035da868e_1008x231.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SiLy!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd61dcc41-69cf-4f3c-8853-53e035da868e_1008x231.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SiLy!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd61dcc41-69cf-4f3c-8853-53e035da868e_1008x231.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">image by <a href="https://pin.it/5aUj6a1tn">Barbie</a></figcaption></figure></div><p>Genuinely my life is going on so well why can&#8217;t he just act right. I&#8217;m filled with built up anger coz genuinely wtf.</p><p>I really do hate boys.</p><p>I hate having to wait for a text back, and dreading whether or not I&#8217;m going to be spoken to and having to feel like I&#8217;m begging just to be spoken to and asked how my day went </p><p>I genuinely rather spend all my time alone than have to deal with J.</p><p>If I&#8217;m being honest I would quite literally do anything for him but why won&#8217;t he need me back.?</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ykvongai.substack.com/p/girl-attempts-positive-thinking?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://ykvongai.substack.com/p/girl-attempts-positive-thinking?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p>Genuinely I don&#8217;t feel the need to have to be explaining this to no one, having to talk about what&#8217;s making me restrain myself from loving you just coz you cat reciprocate that back.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7Wer!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0a8aac61-ac36-4200-8953-fa7abc1ea877_480x270.gif" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7Wer!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0a8aac61-ac36-4200-8953-fa7abc1ea877_480x270.gif 424w, 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class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">image by <a href="https://substack.com/@ykvongai?r=6nd3jm&amp;utm_medium=ios&amp;utm_source=profile">Barbie</a> </figcaption></figure></div><p>I love being in love but why is it so hard.its so hard oh my days.</p><p>I love J but why won&#8217;t he reciprocate back?</p><p>I get people have setbacks but there&#8217;s 24 hours it takes a second to just respond. I&#8217;m so tired. </p><p>I don&#8217;t want to be having this stress or difficulty ever. Like never ever coz I&#8217;m having a beautiful life I don&#8217;t need this. Actually.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6N0Y!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F438936df-64b2-43d0-8959-9a4a2abbe9fc_994x209.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6N0Y!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F438936df-64b2-43d0-8959-9a4a2abbe9fc_994x209.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6N0Y!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F438936df-64b2-43d0-8959-9a4a2abbe9fc_994x209.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6N0Y!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F438936df-64b2-43d0-8959-9a4a2abbe9fc_994x209.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6N0Y!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F438936df-64b2-43d0-8959-9a4a2abbe9fc_994x209.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6N0Y!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F438936df-64b2-43d0-8959-9a4a2abbe9fc_994x209.jpeg" width="994" height="209" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/438936df-64b2-43d0-8959-9a4a2abbe9fc_994x209.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:209,&quot;width&quot;:994,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:28881,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://ykvongai.substack.com/i/190195687?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F438936df-64b2-43d0-8959-9a4a2abbe9fc_994x209.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6N0Y!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F438936df-64b2-43d0-8959-9a4a2abbe9fc_994x209.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6N0Y!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F438936df-64b2-43d0-8959-9a4a2abbe9fc_994x209.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6N0Y!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F438936df-64b2-43d0-8959-9a4a2abbe9fc_994x209.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6N0Y!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F438936df-64b2-43d0-8959-9a4a2abbe9fc_994x209.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">image by <a href="https://substack.com/@ykvongai?r=6nd3jm&amp;utm_medium=ios&amp;utm_source=profile">Barbie</a></figcaption></figure></div><p>Ok maybe the real issue isn&#8217;t J. </p><p>Maybe it&#8217;s that I promised myself I wouldn&#8217;t lower my standards again.</p><p> My life is beautiful right now gym, studying, faith, peace.  And so I refuse to let one late text disturb that. </p><p>If someone wants Princess Vongai, they have to show up properly.period&#128591;&#127997;</p><p>#stayhot&#128139;</p><p>Princess Diaries</p><p>Vongai xx</p><iframe class="spotify-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;image&quot;:&quot;https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b273b337e1ca6629a53c66a3b0d4&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Unwritten&quot;,&quot;subtitle&quot;:&quot;Natasha Bedingfield&quot;,&quot;description&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://open.spotify.com/track/3U5JVgI2x4rDyHGObzJfNf&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;noScroll&quot;:false}" src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/3U5JVgI2x4rDyHGObzJfNf" frameborder="0" gesture="media" allowfullscreen="true" allow="encrypted-media" loading="lazy" data-component-name="Spotify2ToDOM"></iframe><div class="community-chat" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://open.substack.com/pub/ykvongai/chat?utm_source=chat_embed&quot;,&quot;subdomain&quot;:&quot;ykvongai&quot;,&quot;pub&quot;:{&quot;id&quot;:6548021,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;&#119855;&#119848;[&#119847;&#119840;&#119834;]&#119842;&#128120;&#127998;&quot;,&quot;author_name&quot;:&quot;&#119855;&#119848;[&#119847;&#119840;&#119834;]&#119842;&#128120;&#127998;&quot;,&quot;author_photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ArS0!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe2c1bfb5-400a-4854-8034-437db0d91111_490x488.png&quot;}}" data-component-name="CommunityChatRenderPlaceholder"></div><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is the female body considered immodest?]]></title><description><![CDATA[covering doesn&#8217;t stop sexualisation.]]></description><link>https://ykvongai.substack.com/p/why-is-the-female-body-considered</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://ykvongai.substack.com/p/why-is-the-female-body-considered</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[𝐯𝐨[𝐧𝐠𝐚]𝐢👸🏾]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 15:51:58 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/850c4359-b6fa-434f-9e39-da956bbf25fa_750x278.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why is modesty a thing when nothing about a women&#8217;s body is immodest? Modesty is often framed as respect, purity or protection but in reality it reflects a society that sexualises women&#8217;s bodies and then blames women for that sexualisation. Most people defend their case by tagging &#8216;self respect&#8217; but nothing about your body nor you is simply disrespectful for just existing, so why are we made to feel guilty and apologetic for just existing as a woman? </p><div class="native-audio-embed" data-component-name="AudioPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;label&quot;:null,&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;b8798d2e-7430-4534-9029-f2423c172413&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:235.91183,&quot;downloadable&quot;:false,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p>It never made sense to me when a woman wearing revealing clothing was &#8216;dirty&#8217; because it&#8217;s just a normal human body. Modesty teaches women they are sinful and sexual objects but to believe a woman is &#8216;sexualising herself&#8217; for wearing revealing clothing is implying that a woman&#8217;s body is inherently sexual. And yes some girls might start saying &#8216;oh but only my future husband can see my body&#8217; but why are girls taught their bodies belong to future husbands? Hello why are we even thinking of an imaginary man?? A woman&#8217;s value is not tied to modesty nor any male entitlement. </p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ykvongai.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://ykvongai.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>The idea often promoted is covering protects you and prevents sexual violence but in reality sexual violence exists regardless of clothing, covering does not stop harassment and it does not control other people&#8217;s actions. Therefore if modesty truly prevented sexualisation or violence then covering women completely would&#8217;ve eliminated these problems but it doesn&#8217;t. Showing your body doesn&#8217;t sexualise you and hiding it doesn&#8217;t desexualise you. Let&#8217;s take Islamic women in Afghanistan for example. They are covered from head to toe but there are far more rape cases.</p><p>In many African households girls are often told to cover up for male relatives but not for women. Having to be taught that men will look and your body is dangerous but why are girls taught to change their behaviour instead of boys being taught to control theirs? </p><p>Men don&#8217;t cover up, men&#8217;s bodies are not sexualised the same way. A man shirtless is normal but a woman&#8217;s shoulder is so very inappropriate, the double standard is real. If modesty were truly about respect the rules would apply equally but they don&#8217;t. Therefore if anyone and anything can be sexualised then covering everything won&#8217;t stop sexualisation, the problem isn&#8217;t the body but perception. Modesty teaches your body is dangerous, distracting and causes problems implying women are responsible for male thoughts and must manage male behaviour. There&#8217;s a strong sense of a patriarchy, sexism and misogyny. </p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ykvongai.substack.com/p/why-is-the-female-body-considered/comments&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://ykvongai.substack.com/p/why-is-the-female-body-considered/comments"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><p>A woman dressing modestly for male validation is no different to a woman dressing half naked for male validation. The other will weaponise being modest so they get picked and believe they are more deserving than those who don&#8217;t. Both are centred around male approval. Also if men prefer modest women then how can revealing clothing be for male attention? </p><p>On the other hand, sexualisation is often racialised. Different groups of woman are sexualised differently. Black women are often hypersexualised, some cultures are labelled as &#8216;modest&#8217; and others as &#8216;promiscuous&#8217;, this all connects to history and power. </p><blockquote><p>&#8220;Desiring a woman to be fully covered is the same as desiring her to be naked. In both instances you see her body solely as a sex object. We just tend to see modesty as more virtuous because it&#8217;s encouraged with the intention of getting men to turn away from their sexual desire. But it&#8217;s still demeaning because women are still being asked to tailor themselves to what&#8217;s best for men.&#8221;- &#119823;&#119834;&#119851;&#119842;&#119852; &#119820;&#119856;&#119838;&#119847;&#119837;&#119856;&#119834;.     </p><div><hr></div></blockquote><p>#itsyourresponsibilitytobehot&#128139;</p><div class="community-chat" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://open.substack.com/pub/ykvongai/chat?utm_source=chat_embed&quot;,&quot;subdomain&quot;:&quot;ykvongai&quot;,&quot;pub&quot;:{&quot;id&quot;:6548021,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;&#119855;&#119848;[&#119847;&#119840;&#119834;]&#119842;&#128120;&#127998;&quot;,&quot;author_name&quot;:&quot;&#119855;&#119848;[&#119847;&#119840;&#119834;]&#119842;&#128120;&#127998;&quot;,&quot;author_photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ArS0!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe2c1bfb5-400a-4854-8034-437db0d91111_490x488.png&quot;}}" data-component-name="CommunityChatRenderPlaceholder"></div><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is Shona a language we were taught to escape from?]]></title><description><![CDATA[shona and the cost of colonization]]></description><link>https://ykvongai.substack.com/p/is-shona-a-language-we-were-taught</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://ykvongai.substack.com/p/is-shona-a-language-we-were-taught</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[𝐯𝐨[𝐧𝐠𝐚]𝐢👸🏾]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 14:00:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/cb902ac8-81ca-4f13-8e02-1b130518fd61_970x450.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why do some Shona speakers feel comfortable expressing intelligence, ambition or authority in English rather than their own language? This discomfort is often blamed of personal choice, but it is better understood as the result of colonial language hierarchies that systematically deprioritised Shona and attached stigma to its use.</p><div class="native-audio-embed" data-component-name="AudioPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;label&quot;:null,&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;46f5c9f8-b023-49e0-9859-b9a5d65bd0bd&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:302.05386,&quot;downloadable&quot;:false,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p>Colonialism imposed English as the language of power, education, governance ,religion and economic mobility.Indigenous languages like Shona were excluded from these institutions or framed as informal or inadequate.Overtime, this created a hierarchy where English signalled intelligence and success, while Shona was associated with the idea of being less educated, too rural or unsophisticated with English being the reward and having African languages being sidelined.We&#8217;re kinda still stuck in mental colonization because of how internalised and how institutionalised it became through school, workplaces and media. This systematic deprecation shaped how shona speakers perceived its value and this plays out in our everyday reality.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ykvongai.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"></p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><blockquote><p>&#8220;Shona was part of the ghetto daemon I was trying to escape.Shona had been placed within the context of a degraded, mind wrenching experience from which apparently the only escape was into the English language and education. I took the English language as a duck takes to water.&#8221; -&#119811;&#119834;&#119846;&#119835;&#119854;&#119837;&#119859;&#119848; &#119820;&#119834;&#119851;&#119838;&#119836;&#119841;&#119838;&#119851;&#119834;</p><div><hr></div></blockquote><p>When Zimbabwean writer, &#119811;&#119834;&#119846;&#119835;&#119854;&#119837;&#119859;&#119848; &#119820;&#119834;&#119851;&#119838;&#119836;&#119841;&#119838;&#119851;&#119834; was asked why he never wrote in Shona he describes it as part of a &#8216;ghetto daemon&#8217; reflecting how the language had been confined to spaces of punishment, trapped conditions of poverty and limitation under colonial rule, mission schools, segregated education and racial hierarchies where English was the only route to safety, mobility and intellectual recognition. Therefore English wasn&#8217;t chosen because it was better, it was chosen because it was positioned as the only escape. </p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ykvongai.substack.com/p/is-shona-a-language-we-were-taught/comments&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://ykvongai.substack.com/p/is-shona-a-language-we-were-taught/comments"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><p>Moreover we can see how colonial education was conducted primarily in English, indigenous languages were excluded from higher education, governance and publishing, literacy recognition, exams and social mobility required English. Altogether &#119820;&#119834;&#119851;&#119838;&#119836;&#119841;&#119838;&#119851;&#119834;&#8217;&#119852; words illustrate how colonialism did not merely suppress indigenous languages but reshaped how their speakers experienced or valued them.</p><p>In addition we can see this systematic reprioritisation play out in English only schools where the use of Shona is punishable and Shona being associated with inferiority limiting its use in formal knowledge therefore having students internalise this hierarchy , and having language as a gate keeper to power. Access to jobs, government positions or higher education require English. Speaking Shona won&#8217;t open the same doors so using English is pragmatic, not betrayal but a better way to survive and succeed in the system. </p><p>In conclusion the persistence of English dominance in education and professional life allows colonial era stigma to survive, influencing how Shona is used,code switched or avoided today. </p><p>Lastly, if language carries memory, identity and history what does it mean when we feel the need to escape our own?</p><div class="community-chat" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://open.substack.com/pub/ykvongai/chat?utm_source=chat_embed&quot;,&quot;subdomain&quot;:&quot;ykvongai&quot;,&quot;pub&quot;:{&quot;id&quot;:6548021,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;&#119855;&#119848;[&#119847;&#119840;&#119834;]&#119842;&#128120;&#127998;&quot;,&quot;author_name&quot;:&quot;&#119855;&#119848;[&#119847;&#119840;&#119834;]&#119842;&#128120;&#127998;&quot;,&quot;author_photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ArS0!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe2c1bfb5-400a-4854-8034-437db0d91111_490x488.png&quot;}}" data-component-name="CommunityChatRenderPlaceholder"></div><p></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ykvongai.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"></p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put your baddie friends on 𝐯𝐨[𝐧𝐠𝐚]𝐢👸🏾]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hang in there baddie!!]]></description><link>https://ykvongai.substack.com/p/put-your-baddie-friends-on</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://ykvongai.substack.com/p/put-your-baddie-friends-on</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[𝐯𝐨[𝐧𝐠𝐚]𝐢👸🏾]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 18:56:42 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/11cc35f2-93fa-4602-a35c-3fda49371b56_851x315.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you for reading &#119855;&#119848;[&#119847;&#119840;&#119834;]&#119842;&#128120;&#127998; &#8212; your support allows me to keep doing this work.</p><p>If you enjoy &#119855;&#119848;[&#119847;&#119840;&#119834;]&#119842;&#128120;&#127998;, it would mean the world to me if you invited friends to subscribe and read with us. 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Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are modern beauty standards rooted to paedophilic ideals? ]]></title><description><![CDATA[In a world that&#8217;s full and diverse it really does baffle me how certain looks are taken in and set as a ground look of how one should appear as to be seen as &#8220;beautiful&#8221;,well rather acceptable really.]]></description><link>https://ykvongai.substack.com/p/are-modern-beauty-standards-rooted</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://ykvongai.substack.com/p/are-modern-beauty-standards-rooted</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[𝐯𝐨[𝐧𝐠𝐚]𝐢👸🏾]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2025 16:00:19 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0f5a1ce9-240e-40fd-b497-a4cfa577a6ad_1199x506.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In a world that&#8217;s full and diverse it really does baffle me how certain looks are taken in and set as a ground look of how one should appear as to be seen as &#8220;beautiful&#8221;,well rather acceptable really.</p><p>The more I look into what really is considered this &#8220;beauty&#8221; the more it opens my eyes into realising how it&#8217;s all linked and tied to a men&#8217;s perspective of a young girl child.Beauty standards, we&#8217;ll &#8216;European beauty standards&#8221; to be precise created the now existing female beauty standards that are a reflection of a man&#8217;s already existing peodophilic fetish desires.</p><p>Now to be fair that really is a bold statement to make really tbf, but let me hold your hand and let me land. After all I&#8217;ve said so far what really is this so called &#8216;standard&#8217; anyways that&#8217;s not meant to groom men but is more of for men to groom women into changing their ideal self in order to appeal to &#8216;their&#8217;(men&#8217;s) desires, instead of upholding women and all of society as a whole?</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ykvongai.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://ykvongai.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p></p><p>Well to answer that question to how Excatly is it a male dominated infantilised view on women,it consists of women being pressured by society to have clear hairless skin,no wrinkles, slim bodies, big blue eyes, small noses, innocence soft look,purity(linking to purity culture), fragility, a submissive demeanour, honestly the list could go on but whats it all genuinely looking like? A young girl child. Exactly that. None of this actually looks like a woman,all girl child. None of the features that actual grown women have. These really are just mirrored,echoed,childlike controlled imagery thats being outwardly portrayed out.</p><p>They really shouldn&#8217;t be beauty standards at all really.Cause on an actual if you really think about it how can people really find physical appearances, well physical human body parts attractive?It really does baffle me.Humans really are just weird man.Its actually so crazy,well maybe only to me.And isn&#8217;t everyone meant to be like different and unique so why should everyone look like this particular set of &#8216;standards&#8217; set by the species we are meant to feed into&#8217;s fetishised desires?</p><p>Our perspective of beauty as a society is really messed up because no one is actually ugly.Everyone is beautiful and everyone should be okay with not being conceived as beautiful by everyone else because true beauty really does come within.So why should one&#8217;s beauty be defined by what someone else conceives as worthy or not?!.</p><p>In conclusion I really do believe <strong>European beauty standards reflect male, infantilised, paedophilic ideals, for as so many reasons I can entell</strong></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐕𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐚𝐢 𝐩𝐭.𝟐]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is the Vongai virtual diaries pt.2]]></description><link>https://ykvongai.substack.com/p/876</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://ykvongai.substack.com/p/876</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[𝐯𝐨[𝐧𝐠𝐚]𝐢👸🏾]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2025 20:02:43 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/37dd880d-5409-4785-bdfc-10078e8872ce_736x414.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you read my last article post you must be thinking who does this girl think she is?Some queen diva who can take over the planet all by herself?Well the answer is absolutely yes but no at the same time coz you don&#8217;t know queen diva quite well enough yet.So here I am (re)introducing myself.</p><p>If you are new here hello and welcome.I am Vongai.Well actually first of all before we begin the whole boring ahhh long ahh intro I just wanna make a few clarifications to inform you when I&#8217;ve entered a room or anywhere else really.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ykvongai.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>How to know when Vongai&#8217;s presence is in a radius mile:</p><ul><li><p>Birds start chirping</p></li><li><p>Flowers start blooming</p></li><li><p>Suddenly it&#8217;s now sunny</p></li><li><p>Everyone starts smiling and lining up to get an autograph</p></li></ul><p>There is an awful well not awful,sweet loads to it like you kind of get the sense here.Like yeah.I am all that.</p><p>Ok scratch that so let&#8217;s cut to the chase and let me actually start speaking.To start off I&#8217;m gonna tell you about stuff I like well love well rather passionately like or not well no anyways&#8230; </p><p>Things Vongai likes:</p><ul><li><p>Jesus</p></li><li><p>Vongai(Vongai likes Vongai ofc like queen diva herself)</p></li><li><p>My cousin Noku</p></li><li><p>My family(each and everyone of them)</p></li><li><p>My school life</p></li><li><p>Myself</p></li><li><p>My beautiful music taste also curated by my boyfriend(s.o to him)</p></li><li><p>My TikTok and all my socials</p></li><li><p>My kindness and loving soul</p></li><li><p>My empathy</p></li><li><p>Me</p></li></ul><p>Well there so much more to it but don&#8217;t wanna bore you with all the details I might in another article but there is so much to write I feel better when I express myself and instead of just boring people which I still Will  bore people or maybe not I know I&#8217;m funny</p><p>There will be yet another post introducing me.again.</p><p>All love </p><p>Vongai xx</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ykvongai.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐕𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐚𝐢 𝐩𝐭.𝟏]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is the Vongai virtual diaries pt.1]]></description><link>https://ykvongai.substack.com/p/f52</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://ykvongai.substack.com/p/f52</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[𝐯𝐨[𝐧𝐠𝐚]𝐢👸🏾]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2025 18:33:47 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a6b70929-0769-41bd-82e5-4b0e6042e277_736x414.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When I think of myself nothing else comes to mind except the thought of the absolute serving queen diva I am coming to mind.Bit too confident? No im just an absolute queen&#128139;.</p><p>The thought of me thinking about me in its entirety makes me grin from ear to ear I&#8217;m not even gonna lie.Cant lie I very much love myself like I really do.Like I&#8217;m such a cool person like it&#8217;s such a privilege that people actually get to speak to me.Like come on have you seen me!!! </p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ykvongai.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://ykvongai.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p></p><p>Like Jesus literally said(and I qoute) &#8220;she is worth more than rubies&#8221;.How can I genuinely not believe that?Im so earthreal and so eternal liek I litch leave an imprint on everyone I interact with.Well I think&#8230;.either way im so cool&#129392;.</p><p>I think so highly of myself.Like how can I not?Ive been made to think and feel like im worth so much more yet still priceless.Like I&#8217;ve been made to stand out which I do in every way.Thats just what I&#8217;ve grown up to know to be fair.I&#8217;ve always believed every compliment but never one insult.Im so secure and loving to myself I could never say something horrible to me.</p><p>Above all I don&#8217;t think like this is an prideful way but in a way of just accepting myself which is something not many people do because I&#8217;ve spent so much time hating on my own self I forgot how beautiful I was.Be the person that you want to be treated like.</p><p>Above all love yourself.</p><p>Princess Diaries</p><p>Vongai xx</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[𝐙𝐢𝐦 𝐩𝐭.𝟏]]></title><description><![CDATA[So many parts to zim&#128514;]]></description><link>https://ykvongai.substack.com/p/zim-pt1</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://ykvongai.substack.com/p/zim-pt1</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[𝐯𝐨[𝐧𝐠𝐚]𝐢👸🏾]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2025 13:42:35 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/bfd7dfe0-8d01-4ec6-b681-ab8f9054b2ba_735x245.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To be fair one of my random thoughts is how different my life would be if I didn&#8217;t move.Like on a <a href="http://genuine.Like">genuine.Like</a> actually.Right now would&#8217;ve been in a zim high school/secondary whatever you wanna call it really but yho I&#8217;m like so genuinely grateful I&#8217;m not at the same time coz I&#8217;m sorry have you seen those zim <a href="http://confessions.Im">confessions.Im</a> sorry but on an actual that is so nastyyyy. This is litch my face everytime I read them which im not even supposed to but anyways. Back to confessions like have you seen them those are so nasty like please time out gang.But at the same time I really don&#8217;t think all are true like I don&#8217;t know someone confirm with me.Oh my days&#129318;&#127998;&#8205;&#9792;&#65039;</p><p>If I would&#8217;ve been a teen in zim I definitely would not have survived.There is so much pressure in zim.Academic pressure to be precise.That is like genuinely the worst I&#8217;m so <a href="http://sorry.No">sorry.No</a> coz tell me why people take flippin 19 subjects at A level like what? And problem is after all those a thousand subjects it genuinely takes you nowhere coz let&#8217;s talk about the political and economic state of the world right now.IN ZIM!!! yowe. Like actual sighs bro.</p><p>But anyways guys whoever is reading this you got this trust.But yho.Time out</p><p>But besides that I really do miss zim.But I don&#8217;t miss kurohwa like come on.Kurohwa coz you didn&#8217;t do homework like it&#8217;s genuinely not even that deep guys <a href="http://eh.No">eh.No</a> but kurohwa in general&#129485;&#8205;&#9792;&#65039;. Personally if you went to my school you know I never did homework and you can guess I got hit all the time &#128514;  but also used to be smart about it like come on&#128548;&#128514;</p><p></p><p>Anyways gonna end here coz this is so long and yeah gonna write more about zim and all of that &#128548;&#128591;</p><p></p><p>Vongai xx</p><p></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jv1-!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F53335b0f-7681-4028-96c8-66422f740a83_480x480.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jv1-!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F53335b0f-7681-4028-96c8-66422f740a83_480x480.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jv1-!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F53335b0f-7681-4028-96c8-66422f740a83_480x480.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jv1-!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F53335b0f-7681-4028-96c8-66422f740a83_480x480.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jv1-!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F53335b0f-7681-4028-96c8-66422f740a83_480x480.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jv1-!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F53335b0f-7681-4028-96c8-66422f740a83_480x480.jpeg" width="160" height="160" 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https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jv1-!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F53335b0f-7681-4028-96c8-66422f740a83_480x480.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jv1-!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F53335b0f-7681-4028-96c8-66422f740a83_480x480.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jv1-!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F53335b0f-7681-4028-96c8-66422f740a83_480x480.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Face everytime I read zim school confessions</figcaption></figure></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐋𝐨𝐫𝐝]]></title><description><![CDATA[My letter to my El Shadai]]></description><link>https://ykvongai.substack.com/p/dear-lord</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://ykvongai.substack.com/p/dear-lord</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[𝐯𝐨[𝐧𝐠𝐚]𝐢👸🏾]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2025 10:59:54 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/96725f4e-f5c4-45d5-9fe2-beff63166194_1200x400.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To begin with before anyone of you starts reading this , this (and I quote) letter was written on Friday 3 October 2025 and I was in a cover lesson so instead of doing boring geography decided to just write as I should like come on</p><p>Dear Lord</p><p>Thank you so much for how far you&#8217;ve taken me <a href="http://really.You">really.You</a> are litch the best dad ever and I genuinely cannot suppress for how much you&#8217;ve showed up for <a href="http://me.Like">me.Like</a> on and actual genuine Lord.</p><p>My heart has this big hole that is filled with burst for how much I litch am so like,I cannot believe you keep showing up for me Lord.I cannot litch explain in words if I did my heart would litch burst with love and so many upside down smiles coz I&#8217;m like <a href="http://what.No">what.No</a> like actually what.</p><p>But Lord if I claim I love you so much ,why do i never make time for <a href="http://you.Like">you.Like</a> why don&#8217;t I make that much time for you as I am supposed <a href="http://to.You">to.You</a> know every-time I think about it I&#8217;m so much taken aback coz <a href="http://what.It">what.It</a> feels like so much betrayal but at the same time my heart yearns to know so much about you but I just can never make it.</p><p>Like woah why don&#8217;t I ever?.My heart yearns so much for you Lord and I try and maybe I genuinely don&#8217;t at the same <a href="http://time.Like">time.Like</a> it feels like so much betrayal.If I start and keep thinking  about it my head will burst but see how it&#8217;s my head bursting and not my heart?.Lord I&#8217;m actually now on the verge of tears.Because of you I am who I am today.</p><p>I&#8217;m so full and of love and so much emotion be You Lord taught me how to be this <a href="http://way.So">way.So</a> much full of empathy and I feel so so much Lord.I always used to question why I love so much but it&#8217;s coz of you Lord,Lord it&#8217;s coz of you.I thank you so so much words cannot suppress.</p><p>I thank you so much ,you took me out of that hole you are so so <a href="http://wonderful.You">wonderful.You</a> saved me  Lord you gave me life in my actual death like on an actual actual you gave me so much purpose Lord.Worthy is your name <a href="http://Lord.My">Lord.My</a> heart beats yearning for you</p><p>And that&#8217;s where I finished because after that I had to write another letter about J I will probs publish that idk but yeah that was how I was feeling at that moment and wish I had written more </p><p>Vongai xx</p>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>