Amuse-Douche

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Amuse-Douche

n.
an activity that you’ve adored since you were a kid—riding bikes, reading books, taking pictures, cooking food—whose enjoyment dissolves on contact with hardcore fanatics’ ferocious obsession with technique.

From amuse-bouche, a bite-size appetizer intended to tantalize the palate + douche. Pronounced “ah-mooz-doosh.”

Loss Of Backing

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Slipfast

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Idlewild

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Insoucism

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Tornomov

a cloudy sky and landscape

Appriesse

a blurry image of a person looking at mounted images