Here We Go Mama

These were words spoken by Timothée Chalamet’s Willy Wonka in the 2023 musical Wonka. I want to give this newsletter another try. This Substack used to be called ‘Hyperfixate’, where I used to let the brainworms that hijack my brain spew all sorts of bizarre combinations of words about whatever pop culture phenom plagued me in the moment. I might still do that, I might not. We’ll see.

Third Person Bio

Ariane Anindita Anantaputri (they/she) is a writer, actor, musician and stand-up comedian currently working from the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil- Waututh) Nations, known today as so-called “Vancouver, British Columbia”.

Originally from Jakarta, Indonesia, Ari has done stints in Sydney, Australia, many places in Kuwait, and London (the real one, not the one in Ontario). She has also become preoccupied with her existence as a third-culture individual and is trying to spend less time online. Ari completed her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia, where she served as Managing Editor for PRISM international, Western Canada’s oldest literary magazine.