So, I am opening a show in a week and I currently have 20 pairs of harem pants sitting in boxes in my living room. 16 of them will be returned, but still.
@banjofox Like, why do people constantly go on and on about how it’s bad if sex is short? I mean, yeah, 20 seconds isn’t great, but I’m not here for 20 minutes of free jazz noodling.
I like sex to be like a classic punk song— hard, fast, somewhat angry, with an emphasis on enthusiasm over virtuosity, and over in 3 minutes or less. Bonus points if combat boots are included.
"The personal, as everyone’s so fucking fond of saying, is political. So if some idiot politician, some power player, tries to execute policies that harm you or those you care about, take it personally. Get angry. The Machinery of Justice will not serve you here – it is slow and cold, and it is theirs, hardware and soft-. Only the little people suffer at the hands of Justice; the creatures of power slide from under it with a wink and a grin. If you want justice, you will have to claw it from them. Make it personal. Do as much damage as you can. Get your message across. That way, you stand a better chance of being taken seriously next time. Of being considered dangerous. And make no mistake about this: being taken seriously, being considered dangerous marks the difference - the only difference in their eyes - between players and little people. Players they will make deals with. Little people they liquidate. And time and again they cream your liquidation, your displacement, your torture and brutal execution with the ultimate insult that it’s just business, it’s politics, it’s the way of the world, it’s a tough life and that it’s nothing personal. Well, fuck them. Make it personal."
@shoutcacophony See, this is why I adore you. You just made me laugh about something that makes me want to go sit in a fetal position in a dry bathtub and never come out.
Oh, for fuck's sake. I thought that this administration couldn't find ways to gross me out more than they already have through their fucking political policies, but now the anus mouthed jackass in the White House is going on a celebrity pardoning jag? I fucking hate America so hard.
i really like the use of positive (+), negative (-), and neutral (~) in the CW as i find it to be much more helpful and pretty specific even for only symbols
for example, talking about mental health could be -talking about triggering stuff -talking abut progress -talking about something you've learned about yourself
and any of those could trigger people, depending on the exact content. so using + - or ~ in your CW is really good for a variety of topics and i appreciate it.
Oh, and for those who have no idea what I am talking about... my best friend and I have a #podcast where we are watching every movie ever nominated for Best Picture, reviewing one each week, and then deciding if the Academy picked the right movie. It's called Screen Test of Time, and it's pretty fun. David is hilarious, I'm ironically the straight woman (only in comedy, my friends, only in comedy), and it's online here http://www.suzaneraslan.net/screen-test-of-time or on iTunes in the usual way.
Sorry our #podcast is a little late this week, everyone. I realized after listening to it that it needed a content warning, so I had to go ahead and record one of those before I could release it. It should be up very soon, and I'm really proud of this one!
@sciss Though I have to say it makes me nervous, the literacy thing in particular... the AKP used literacy programs to indoctrinate rural populations into Islamicism. What is the İyi party planning to use to teach people to read?
And what does that even mean? How do you reconcile the light pink of a delicate, angelic little girl to the cool, lean sophistication of an Audrey Hepburn type to the brazen red hourglass of a Mae West bombshell? The myriad ways in which even *idealized* femininity is presented are literally in contradiction to each other.
So how did we decide what was defined as feminine when these elements are often themselves binary and diametrically opposed?