hi hello hey, get ready for a real love fest today

Do you ever spend so much time with someone that you slowly start becoming them? Or worse… you start liking things you swore you’d never like?

After nearly 12 years of friendship (and almost 6 years of being best friends), we’ve influenced each other in ways both small and genuinely life-altering. From music, style, and products to deeper things like our perspectives, habits, and who we’ve grown into as people, we honestly wouldn’t recognize our lives without each other in them.

This episode is exactly what it sounds like: a cute, sappy, slightly embarrassing bestie love fest. We talk about the ways we’ve shaped each other—sometimes intentionally, sometimes completely by accident—and how we’ve made each other better along the way.

So grab a cozy drink, settle in, and blame it on bestie.

Have we influenced you in any way, big or small? We’d love to hear about it! Send us an email at hello@rarewithflair.com.

for episodes we mention in this one, check out:

• 137. sorry, my brain was buffering our most recent episode on visual processing
• 135. our most ambitious vision boards yet!! for our 2026 vision boards
• 93. the great cardigan debate: our style roots for proof Cass used to be a cardigan hater
• 61. is reading an audiobook really reading? to hear about Cass’ grad school project on reading with low vision (and BARD Mobile!)
• 46.5. pale skin & green thumbs on our love for plants
• 34. shouting from the rooftops about assistive technology for proof Case used to be a dark mode hater
• 7. thank you for the music for proof that Cass used to be a Taylor Swift hater
• 1. intro: welcome to rare with flair! for our incentive of hearing Case’s “dog voice” for Rupert if we hit 100+ reviews
  • 51. blind beauty tips for actually hearing Case’s ridiculous dog voice (that is now part of Cass’ life)

for other cutesy episodes about friendship:

• 89. the moments that defined our ten-year friendship
• 77. only disabled friends talk about this
• 73. the alternate life where we wouldn’t be friends
• 34.5. are we really best friends? the ultimate friendship test

hi hello hey… oh, are you waving at us??

We’ve done many an episode about the unique situations we find ourselves in while navigating a world with limited vision, and this one offers a fresh take on a very enduring experience.

After living for 30 years (an average of our ages), we’ve realized our brains aren’t exactly built for speedy visual processing. When your vision is limited, your brain gets less information to work with—and sometimes it feels like it’s just… buffering. This isn’t a visual processing disorder; it’s simply our brains doing their best with what they’ve got.

The result? Occasional awkward pauses, missed cues, and moments where we look completely spaced out. But there’s also a flip side. Because we don’t get bogged down in tiny visual details, our brains have learned to compensate in pretty cool ways. We make decisions based on shapes, colors, patterns, and context—and honestly, we’re often surprisingly accurate. (And when we’re not, the fails are at least validating proof to our friends that no, we’re not being dramatic about our vision.)

If you want more proof that our eyes love putting us in funny situations, check out these episodes:

• 52. our lives are just one long, awkward moment for more on navigating social situations with low vision.
• 114. please, read the room!!! on choosing our battles—when to disclose and ask for accommodations, and when to let things go.
• 17. do we want a cure? our thoughts on not fixing our vision.

And an episode we reference in this one:

• 107. blind gamer girlies on playing video games with low vision.

hi hello hey, yes—we’re still out here watching cartoons, and we’re very excited to talk about it.

This is our third installment in our cartoon-watching series (affectionately known as Buddy Watch). We keep joking that only three of you care, but based on the messages and suggestions we’ve received, we know there are some very dedicated cartoon lovers among you.

If you’re newer to Rare with Flair, cartoons are one of our many shared loves. We’ve been watching shows together almost daily since 2022, which puts our current total at around 14 series watched (and counting). In this episode, we break down the last five shows we watched—Fairly OddParents, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, Gravity Falls, Star vs. the Forces of Evil, and Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse—and then run through our ever-growing (and slightly unhinged) watchlist.

We’re always taking recommendations—email us at hello@rarewithflair.com or slide into our DMs! We’ve fully committed to watching cartoons together until the day we die, so please send us your favorites that we should add to—or bump up on—our list.

Check out the previous installments in our cartoon series:

• 105. case & cass’ carTWOon adventures
• 69. cass & case’s cartoon adventures