Freddie Shanel

Brooklyn

Editorial Assistant at Reductress

one of those "brooklyn-based comics" i keep hearing so much about || editorial henchman @reductress || boymom

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Errand Going to Derail Next Couple of Days

1 week ago | reductress.com | Freddie Shanel

Time ManagementErrandsThere Goes the Week × WE'RE DESPERATE FOR YOUR APPROVAL.
Uh Oh! This Woman Had Coffee After Noon so She Won’t Sleep This Week

1 week ago | reductress.com | Freddie Shanel

× WE'RE DESPERATE FOR YOUR APPROVAL.
Group Text Celebrates 500th Consecutive Day of Being Active Nonstop

1 week ago | reductress.com | Freddie Shanel

Fans of meaningless connection are rejoicing today, as the group text you were involuntarily added to during a night out two years ago celebrates its 500th consecutive day of being active nonstop. “We’re just so proud to have brought such a lovely group of people along with us for this historic milestone,” said your friend Jane, creator of the group chat and one of its most active members.
Woman Figures Single Use Plastic Less Bad if She Uses It Way Too Many Times

2 weeks ago | reductress.com | Freddie Shanel |Living -

In a beautiful loophole emerging from a kitchen in Nyack, NY, 26-year-old Amanda Weaver is convinced that her dependence on single-use plastics is not immoral as long as she uses each utensil way too many times. “Sure, single-use plastics are terrible for the environment, but that’s just the way everyone else is using them,” Amanda told reporters from her kitchen, where she was once again washing her plastic spoons from takeout last week. “I do it differently.
Why Cigarettes Are Visually Disgusti - Oh, a Woman Is Holding One? Never Mind

2 weeks ago | reductress.com | Freddie Shanel |Thoughts -

It’s common knowledge that cigarettes are bad for you. They’re known to cause cancer, not to mention a host of other issues, but this doesn’t seem to deter people from smoking. There’s somehow still a pervasive cultural narrative that cigarettes are sexy, that they make you look “hard” or apathetic in a cool way, but this couldn’t be further from the truth. Here’s why I believe cigarettes are visually disgusti – oh, a woman is holding one? Haha, never mind!Cigarettes ruin a visual aesthetic for me.
REPORT: Boyfriend Assumed You Were Booking That

2 weeks ago | reductress.com | Freddie Shanel |Sex -

In a deeply annoying story emerging from your living room, you and your boyfriend Matteo are supposed to go out for date night at a trendy restaurant this evening, but he assumed you were the one booking that. Sources confirm there is no evidence from the past three weeks that would suggest you were booking this, nor any reason to assume he had not already booked it. “What do you mean you assumed I was booking the reservation?” you asked, incredulous.
REPORT: Minnesotan Ambulance Just Needs to Scoot Past Ya

2 weeks ago | reductress.com | Freddie Shanel

In a report emerging from a highway in Minneapolis, MN it appears there’s an ambulance coming up behind you that just needs to scoot past ya real quick. “I’m used to ambulances being quite loud and cumbersome by design,” you told reporters gathered at the scene. “But this one appears to be…extremely polite.
Fair Trade? This Man Mentally and Emotionally Tortured His Girlfriend for Months so She Took His Sweatshirt

3 weeks ago | reductress.com | Freddie Shanel |Womanspiration -

In a mutually beneficial economic deal emerging from Providence, RI, 34-year-old Harris Williams mentally and emotionally tortured his girlfriend, 26-year-old Ife Adebayo, for months, so she has taken her retribution in the form of his sweatshirt.
Heterochromia Wasted On Dog

3 weeks ago | reductress.com | Freddie Shanel

DogHuskyIt's Beautiful... × WE'RE DESPERATE FOR YOUR APPROVAL.
Why I Stopped Focusing on the Negatives and Started Focusing on the Gay Incest in ‘The White Lotus’

3 weeks ago | reductress.com | Freddie Shanel |Thoughts -

It’s easy to get bogged down in the ways life isn’t working out for you – perhaps you don’t have the job you wanted, haven’t found a very nice apartment, or are just struggling to comprehend the ceaseless march of time. I know I am! I was deeply, medically depressed a couple of weeks ago, but I’ve finally cracked the case on how to feel better. Here’s why I stopped focusing on the negatives and started focusing on the gay incest plotline in the hit TV show, The White Lotus.