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Personal essays on immigration, dating, and rebuilding life in Barcelona.]]></description><link>https://www.sanacatgaryen.com</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mZmj!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbceedbe1-4291-4a28-8793-5ab45226a9c0_1179x1179.png</url><title>Sana Catgaryen</title><link>https://www.sanacatgaryen.com</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:59:52 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.sanacatgaryen.com/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[Sana Catgaryen]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en-gb]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[sanacatgaryen@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[sanacatgaryen@substack.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[Sana Catgaryen]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[Sana Catgaryen]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[sanacatgaryen@substack.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[sanacatgaryen@substack.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[Sana Catgaryen]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[EP. 1. "THE CROWD"]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sana and her Pure adventures. The first field report from Barcelona's dating fauna.]]></description><link>https://www.sanacatgaryen.com/p/ep-1-the-crowd</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.sanacatgaryen.com/p/ep-1-the-crowd</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sana Catgaryen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 13:30:58 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-hd3!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F908bb105-7d97-4ef5-82fb-f04bc57db9ee_1179x1474.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Welcome to the series "Sana and her Pure adventures".</p><blockquote><p><em>Seven days on the platform, three days of observations, one hookup and one fantastic date. All characters are fictional, all coincidences are accidental.</em></p></blockquote><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-hd3!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F908bb105-7d97-4ef5-82fb-f04bc57db9ee_1179x1474.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-hd3!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F908bb105-7d97-4ef5-82fb-f04bc57db9ee_1179x1474.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-hd3!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F908bb105-7d97-4ef5-82fb-f04bc57db9ee_1179x1474.jpeg 848w, 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Whatever hides in the deepest corners of your fantasies has a permanent Pure residence. <strong>Whatever you&#8217;re into &#8211; there are others, who love it too. Just so you know.</strong></p><p><strong>A crucial note to my queens:</strong> I finally found out where they hide all the cute ones &#8211; in the EU. Either Greek or Nordic gods, literally. <strong>Vacation season is coming, something to think about as well, ladies.</strong></p><p><strong>So, let&#8217;s go through our selection of goods.</strong> It&#8217;s not bad, it&#8217;s not good, it&#8217;s just what it is. You either smash or pass, and don&#8217;t fight the windmills. Still, responsibly banning and reporting occasional pervs and scumbags, helping to keep the Pure community as safe, sound and pure as possible&#129776;</p><blockquote><ul><li><p><strong>Sana&#8217;s location:</strong> Barcelona, Spain </p></li><li><p><strong>Geo selection:</strong> worldwide </p></li><li><p><strong>Into:</strong> men, women, non-binary </p></li><li><p><strong>Age:</strong> 25-45 (Sowwwry, I don&#8217;t play house with either children or elderly. And no, I do not consider people 45+ automatically elderly &#8211; I just assume it will be harder to find common ground with older folks, and we are not there for complexities)</p></li></ul></blockquote><p><strong>With no further ado, meet our crowd.</strong></p><ul><li><p>Every letter on the LGBTQIA+ menu&#129776;</p></li><li><p>Ladies who would love to introduce newbies to their religion.</p></li><li><p>Doms looking for subs, subs looking for doms, switches who just wanna finally get laid.</p></li><li><p>Consent-conscious, consent-first, safe sex practices only crowd &#8211; here comes the result of proper sex education.</p></li><li><p>Couples in search of someone gorgeous to join them. Where she speaks for them. Confidently, knowing what she wants, fully in control, and either &#8220;I&#8217;m curious, let&#8217;s discover together&#8221; or &#8220;done it before, will do it again&#8221; energy.</p></li><li><p>And where he speaks for them. And for some reasons, normally she hasn&#8217;t done it before. And she&#8217;s never been with a girl. And it feels like she&#8217;s just too darn scared to lose him, and uses every ace in her sleeve to save that sinking ship, compromising with herself each step of the way. I just wanna give her a hug. She deserves better.</p></li><li><p>Cheating boys &#8211; just like no fucking way and no fucking comments. We sense you in a mile, just in case. Y&#8217;all terrible liars-liars in pants-on-fire situation.</p></li><li><p>Boys that have a kink for body fluids.</p></li><li><p>Married boys with photos from their weddings in place of profile pics. Dude, next time be a lamb, and at least remove that chick in the veil from the photo. Like come on.</p></li><li><p>Boys pretending to be girls (not in a trans way, in a fake way).</p></li><li><p>Boys who show off their dicks instead of hello. Big, small, wide, thin, veiny, cut and not &#8211; choose your fighter, brace yourself for the role of Penis Michelin (but in watching-not-touching merchandise manner, we are not sluts here. still, to my slut girlies &#8211; go for it, no shame nor shade, complete and full support!). Let&#8217;s embrace it as a part of fun!</p></li><li><p>&#8220;Prince Charming&#8221; boys, who prove that chivalry is still alive.</p></li><li><p>&#8220;I wanna find a wife, have 5 kids, and play house&#8221; boys.</p></li><li><p>Anything-but-boring boys (I&#8217;m mostly talking of boys, as I had a bigger statistical representation of male species. Sorry, didn&#8217;t mean to exclude others &#8211; that&#8217;s on Pure, not on me.)</p></li><li><p>Boys and girls and thems, who share passion for artsy dates. Ones, who wanna be taken out to the museum and fucked in the bathroom after.</p></li><li><p>Ravers.</p></li><li><p>Perfect gentlemen boys.</p></li><li><p>Ones, who will tell you everything and anything, just to finally get laid.</p></li><li><p>Beautiful, expressive, and diverse weirdos.</p></li><li><p>Finance bros and entrepreneurs.</p></li><li><p>Writers and muses, and ones, who are both.</p></li><li><p>Thems, who wish you to support your local queer artist.</p></li><li><p>Narcissist boys.</p></li><li><p>Queens, who can talk for hours about feminism and spanking.</p></li><li><p>Femdom queens&#129776;</p></li><li><p>Boys who in their 50s look for something casual (and that&#8217;s when I narrowed down my age group to 25-45).</p></li><li><p>Love bombing boys.</p></li><li><p>Boys who arrange apples in kinda-artsy patterns.</p></li><li><p>Boys who shout &#8220;age is just a number&#8221;.</p></li><li><p>Boys who either side you with MILFs or teens in your 30s.</p></li><li><p>Ones, who just love versatile sex, want it, have it, will have it again, and not shy about it.</p></li><li><p>Boys, who are ready to start a war for your lips (sweetie, I&#8217;d rather ask you to end a war or two).</p></li><li><p>Boys, girls and thems, who love to dominate and to be dominated. Switchiiiiiiiieeeees&#129776;</p></li><li><p>Boys who will play like a knight around you &#8211; the queen you truly are.</p></li><li><p>Boys with that peaceful yogi glance, with love for latex and hot nights in private clubs.</p></li><li><p>Boys who quickly get under your skin &#8211; rookie mistake, not doing that again.</p></li><li><p>Boys who like impregnating. IMSORRY WHAAAT?</p></li><li><p>Boys, who request your selection of engagement rings in the fifth message.</p></li><li><p>Boys and girls, who share dinner dates and hotel fantasies.</p></li><li><p>Boys who delete their accounts once you hit it off.</p></li><li><p>Boys, who wanna be Gomez to your Morticia right away.</p></li><li><p>Military boys.</p></li></ul><p><strong>Surprisingly, no boys with fish.</strong></p><p><strong>So here it is. The crowd.</strong></p><p><strong>Stay tuned for further updates on this little project of ours.</strong> And once again &#8211; all characters are fictional, all coincidences are accidental, I&#8217;m just delusional enough and had a spare hour and enough audacity to create this lore.</p><p>Love you all, wish you well, and don&#8217;t forget to <strong>buy yourself some good condoms &#8211; SKYN, Trojans and ONE are pretty chill</strong> (or whatever you kids prefer). But please, oh please, no Durex-Contex bullshit. Good ones and good (and safe) vibes only&#129776;</p><p>Love you all, wish you well, </p><p>Sana </p><p>xoxo</p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[01. WHO ARE YOU?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Let's get acquainted. Hello, I'm Sana. And you are...?]]></description><link>https://www.sanacatgaryen.com/p/01-who-are-you</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.sanacatgaryen.com/p/01-who-are-you</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sana Catgaryen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 12:14:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mZmj!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbceedbe1-4291-4a28-8793-5ab45226a9c0_1179x1179.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p><em>I was sitting in the healing corner of my temporary Sarri&#224;-Sant Gervasi ground floor apartment, which was the worst of a place and the best of a place simultaneously. With a cuppa, tissues, and my notes wide open. I looked like I&#8217;d been chewed up and spit out, with a terribly looking bun on my head, in the brown-ish hoodie that had seen better times, with nothing else on except for underwear, covered all over with the blanket, as if it would ever make me warm. I was sitting, thinking, drinking, smoking, working. Figuring out how to tell her story.</em></p><p><em>My fever-ish brain wasn&#8217;t the best companion in this matter, yet I had nothing better to do than to think about her. Her hazel, constantly cheerless eyes, elongated features, and the nose with that tiny bump on it.</em></p><p><em>And then I thought: what if I just approach this as a therapeutic exercise? Meaning, I&#8217;ll walk her through a certain period of time or specific events and I&#8217;ll just write down whatever feels right along the way. As in &#8211; People. Events. Feelings. Emotions. Loss. Again and again. Loss as a leitmotif for years. To the point where it felt like there was nothing left but to gain instead.</em></p><p><em>And there it was: the approach. Nice.</em></p></blockquote><p><strong>Hi. I&#8217;m Sana.</strong> That was the morning I decided to do this seriously. Nice to meetcha!</p><p>I&#8217;d love to know your name and your story too &#8211; I&#8217;m always fascinated by other human beings. That&#8217;s my favourite kind of fun &#8211; to observe, and to take notes. Responsibly and respectfully, to ease your shoulders that just got tense. Come here, my dearest friend, let me give you a hug.</p><p>Not to bore you right away with the entire story of my life, I&#8217;ll tell you this. I&#8217;ve been through much, going through even more, rebuilding and starting over my whole entire life from scratch in a new city, a new country, half world away from home, and of course &#8211; alone, as I always do.</p><p>And, most importantly, I&#8217;m rediscovering writing for myself along the way. To be completely honest, I&#8217;ve been writing my whole life. I didn&#8217;t pursue it seriously back then, but I&#8217;m doing it now. I do it every day, religiously. The long chain of events that led me to this writing-obsessed state is rather tragic. I&#8217;ll reveal it all eventually, page by page &#8211; inspired by real events, woven into fictional cloth, you&#8217;ll never know if it&#8217;s truth or lie. And that&#8217;s the beauty of it.</p><p>Also &#8211; I have the audacity to allow people to pay me for my craft not once I&#8217;m all grown and established, but now, while doing so. Because I know I&#8217;m good. I finally broke the spine of my internal critic and imposter. It&#8217;s so liberating.</p><p>Here, I&#8217;ll be testing different angles, putting together source material dumps, publishing essays and notes on emigration, loss, sensory experiences, and the chains of thought that don&#8217;t fit anymore in my notes, my Insta, or that beautiful head of mine. And I&#8217;ll gladly take you along for the journey from idea to publication of my first book &#8211; plus periodic field reports from Barcelona&#8217;s dating fauna.</p><p>So, as I was saying. I&#8217;m glad you&#8217;re here. Stay if any of this is your kind of trouble. And I&#8217;d love to hear what you think.</p><p>Love you all, wish you well,</p><p>Sana</p><p>xoxo</p>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>