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  • Dark editorial text card reading 'How were the last two months and seven days?' — a Women's Day post by Merlyn Mathias at callmeunfiltered.comWomen’s Day Roast: Same Cigarette | Call Me Unfiltered
    In #Merlunfiltered - The Visual Mess, Bold Roast
  • Illustration of a tall man seated at a lounge table with a woman beside him, holding whiskey and concluding a conversation, while others socialize around them.Vertical Gap in Relationships: Height vs Depth
    In Bold Roast
  • Funny caricature showing a manipulator surrounded by flying monkeys and cronies laughing, while an empathic person sits overwhelmed, symbolising manipulation, smear campaigns and cheap humour at someone else’s expenseCronies Flying Monkeys Manipulation: The Playbook
    In #Merlunfiltered - The Visual Mess
  • Black and white photo of a silhouette against a dusky sky, symbolising emotional heaviness and the slow struggle to detach.
    Bold Roast,  Buffering Diaries

    Detach: The Ache of Letting Go Between Victimhood and Validation

    August 1, 2025 /

    Detach, they said. But how do you let go of what you never got to hold properly? This piece sits in the space between survival and silence — between needing to be seen and finally seeing yourself.

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  • Poetic black-and-white visual expressing emotional exhaustion
    Buffering Diaries

    I Tried. And Then I Didn’t. And Then I Just Was.

    July 31, 2025 /

    I tried to be there — for others, for the world, for the ghosts that raised me. But when it came to me, I was shut out. This is what it feels like to unravel, and still offer thanks while drowning.

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  • Text graphic for blog post The Addiction to Being Liked
    Bold Roast,  Cuts and Cracks

    The Addiction to Being Liked

    July 20, 2025 /

    The obsession with being liked is a leech at a blood buffet—bloated, done, and dead. You? Still left dizzy and emotionally anaemic. I used to beg for approval. Now? I like churros. And I don't care if churros like me back. Welcome to the era of not being Wi-Fi—because I’m not for everyone, and I’ve finally made peace with it.

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MERLYN MATHIAS

Truth-slinger. Word snob.
Chaos whisperer.
I don’t sugarcoat —
I serve the whole damn lemon.
Fueled by caffeine, side-eyes, and
2 a.m. honesty.
Too honest? Too bad.

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Recent Posts

  • Women’s Day Roast: Same Cigarette | Call Me Unfiltered
  • Vertical Gap in Relationships: Height vs Depth
  • Cronies Flying Monkeys Manipulation: The Playbook

Sections

  • #Merlunfiltered – The Visual Mess (21)
  • Bold Roast (26)
  • Buffering Diaries (36)
  • Cuts and Cracks (18)
  • Mangii Gossip Diaries (9)
  • My Highness Zoe (4)
  • Royal Furball Chronicles (2)
  • Unfiltered Letters (12)

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