Cusp of Cami
/kəsp əv ˈkæm.i/
This Substack: a monthly newsletter by Camille Lagunera (me!) featuring
fiction and nonfiction. Also, à la carte posts offering my thoughts on sex, pop culture, and astrology. Esoteric girl that I am, I’ll also be *occasionally* including witchy things like new or full moon rituals and musings on current astrology. Not to forget– the Camicore weekly roundup aka random, cool shit I find on the internet, media recommendations.
Hello again internet.
How many introductions can a Substack that’s a year old have?? Endless. At least here. Call it the mutable Piscean fashion or my incurable indecisiveness or self-sabotage or the need to rebrand for the zillionth time, but Cusp of Cami is changing in 2025 and so am I.
And who exactly is this “I” behind Cusp of Cami?
That would be me– Camille Lagunera. It’s also A$AP CAMI, Cosmic Cami, figluvr333, camigrl, camilleandhercamera, every iteration of myself rushing up to the surface. I am bubbling over with ponderings and art to be shared.
To get straight to it– my position on the Substack discourse…am I a writer or a creator or a Substacker?
Yes, yes, and yes. I’m an artist finding ways to translate my ideas across different mediums, whether it be through zines, writing, video, etc. I’m interested in creative direction, aesthetics, sexuality, pop culture, esoteric hippie shit. I’m in university studying Creative Writing, though I also have a background in film and art history. Beyond these things…I find myself in my early twenties with a sense of delayed teen angst, essaying towards some hierarchy of personal aesthetics with every post.
Cusp of Cami is the showgirl’s boudoir, the temple of the inner goddess, the forbidden gallery of erotic art, the inner monologue stained pink and veiled by lace, the cacophony of images being orchestrated into their proper order, the fleeting sparkle of liminal and infinite possibility…
When I’m not on Substack writing or reading my favorite authors on here or wishing I was some other internet cool girl, I can be found browsing used bookstores, sipping on a large hot latte at a café, and letting myself steep in an interesting book, something erotic and intellectual, or dreamy and irreverent. I can be found plotting the escape from my escape. I can be found in the corners of old movie theaters taking notes in my red Moleskine. I can be found high, online window shopping into the wee hours of the morning. Yes, I am a romantic, yes I am a materialist. (I’m ruled by Venus, what else did you expect?) I can also be found doing less glamorous things, but we won’t mention those. At least, not yet.
I wish I could say I could be found at other bohemian conclaves like jazz lounges and wine bars, but I don’t drink.1 Also, I hate cigarettes (maybe I’m not a true bohemian after all). Though, now that I think about it, it would be nice to smoke a blunt outside of the jazz lounge, sip on a Shirley Temple, sit back and let the quartet play. Putting that on the 2025 bucket list.
Speaking of 2025, here’s what you can expect from Cusp of Cami in the New Year…
A monthly newsletter featuring a fiction or creative nonfiction story.2
À la carte posts on pop cultural criticism, creative direction, sex, and astrology.
The Camicore Weekly Roundup aka random, cool shit I find on the internet, media recommendations, style edits.
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Feel free introduce yourselves in the comments, whoever you’d like to be, whatever you’d like to embody. I will believe you.
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I turned 21 this year and developed an alcohol intolerance. California sober it is…
Here you’ll also find occasionally witchy things like new or full moon rituals and musings on current astrology. The witchy content is taking a backseat to other things I’d like to create this year, but it is inevitably a part of me and my work :)