1. Abatement of dread when you realize you’re worried about something no one who’s not on the internet even understands
2. A game in which an insignificant but unsolvable problem is posited as a serious problem in need of solving
3. A misallocated emotion, particularly fear, anger, or sadness
4. Feeling of being in multiple worlds at once
5. The genuine part of a nicety
6. Remembering you have a body and wishing you didn’t
7. False sense of accomplishment for having had firsthand experience with an object of cultural nostalgia
8. Private feeling of dismay when it turns out everyone knows about something you thought only you knew about
9. Feeling of sexual obligation to someone you met on the Internet or a cellphone
10. Overall dissonance between one’s online and offline personae
11. The feeling of having read many words and learned nothing
12. A decent but forgettable thing that is fun to remember about (e.g., asiago)
13. A totally unremarkable place that feels remarkable to visit because you never thought you would
14. A fashion trend spawned by a joke about fashion trends
15. A sex trend spawned by fear about sex trends
16. “Phantom limb” feeling when a technology on which you feel dependent is unavailable
17. Opportunism applied to the tweet- or blogability of private interactions
18. A conversation between the selves of one person
19. Mental or intellectual intimacy at a physical remove
20. The “line” between “life” and “art”
21. A pile of shedded hair in a long-haired person’s apartment
22. The state of perceiving your own thoughts and behaviours through the eyes of someone you have feelings for or are otherwise fixated on
23. The feeling of undergoing something impossible (e.g., death, nausea)
24. The difference between “wanting” to do bad things/have bad things done to you and wanting to do bad things/have bad things done to you
25. Sexual revulsion caused by emotional intimacy
26. Sexual desire caused by revulsion
27. Actual evil as opposed to “naughty” evil
28. The feeling of needing to wash your face
29. A sassy witticism that actually makes no sense
30. A smell that is gross but pleasant to smell
31. A person it is OK to be mean to
32. A colour that means purple, but isn’t*
*contribution by Naomi Skwarna
