Ask Clare #2

A-ING UR QS

ICYMI: I was in 11am Saturday last week and Hannah Claire Baker’s Prix Fixe Potluck about Pride & Prejudice. READ NOW.

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The first Ask Clare was a success! Since then, I have gotten enough emails, DMs, and submissions to the Ask Clare Google form to do another one. By virtue of soliciting emails, the Qs are fewer but more robust. People are always asking me advice about dating and being woke; I don’t know why you think I’m good at those things, though I’m happy to pretend. It’s interesting to see the perception strangers have of me reflected through these questions. In the earlier days of this newsletter, people mostly thought I was a bitch, and now people seem to think I’m hot or fascinatingly dumb or some sort of political genius. I’m ambivalent about all of this — do you guys even know what I look like? The post with a picture of me this week only got like 20 likes.

I want you to ask me questions about hot guys or wearing clothes next time. You know in Gimme Shelter when Mick Jagger is like, “Everybody cool out. You can do it, I know you can!” — that’s me getting you to ask me dumber questions. Here’s the link to the anonymous Google form, and the email is askclaresub@gmail.com.

Before we get to the questions, though…

These are the best messages I sent or received after the Caught Stealing trailer was released

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You have mentioned having had trouble finding friends that share your interests. How did you ultimately do that? Just by putting yourself out there online and attracting likeminded people into your orbit? Please dont say it was just by putting yourself out there online and attracting likeminded people into your orbit.