affirmations when opening a stuck jar:
- I am stronger than the jar
- I know what left and right are
- smashing the jar will make a mess
- I have strong and dextrous hands
- I have opened jars before and I will open jars again
i got these knockoff boots online and instead of the brand name on the tag they have the name of an apparently nonexistent martin scorsese movie??? what the fuck
Happy Goncharov Discovery Day!
i do think theres something sad about how largely only the literature that's considered especially good or important is intentionally preserved. i want to read stuff that ancient people thought sucked enormous balls
Time to take this post entirely too seriously:
- I often wonder if this is why you so commonly see the sentiment that we are in an era of uniquely bad literature, or at least that the fact that most books don't have artistic aspirations and are not aiming to be anything other than mindless entertainment is new. In fact what's new is the idea that everything is worth preserving (and also the internet making it easier to preserve it). The dumb artistically unambitious trash books of the past have survived only sporadically, because people thought of them as literally disposable.
- When I was in college I had a professor who was an expert on detective fiction. He had a longstanding beef with the idea that "Murders in the Rue Morgue" was the first detective story. He thought that it seemed way too polished to be inventing a new genre, and also that the whole orangutan business had the vibe of someone subverting preexisting audience expectations and maybe engaging in a bit of stealth parody. With the help of some student volunteers, he went trawling through old magazines and newspapers and found hundreds of detective stories from the early 1800s that just hadn't garnered enough individual attention to be remembered. This was because most of them sucked balls. He created an online archive of them, so you too can read these mostly terrible stories.
I've spent a ridiculous amount of time on Project Gutenberg sifting through forgotten old fiction and lemme tell ya. a lot of that stuff sucks ass.
Tremendously comforting, really.
Erika Toliusis (b.1969) - Pacific Angel. 2022. Oil with palette knife on canvas.
Painted with a FUCKING PALETTE KNIFE?
Pornography remains an important part of queer expression! Queer people deserve space to explore/express their sexuality. Rejecting the expression of sexuality because some people do it in an exploitative way or get addicted would be like closing the Stonewall Inn because they were run by the mafia at one point or because they sell beer which can be addictive. Sexuality is an important part of the queer community and stopping queer people from expressing that is a form of oppression. Queer people deserve to enjoy their sexuality without shame!
Porn can and does exist ethically. I am so grateful to know queer sex workers, and I love not only them but also their work. I'm not ashamed of the ways queer porn has been a part of my development. I am so grateful for works from Elana Dykewomon which includes explicit sex or erotica from authors like Kathryn Moon who express sexuality in a beautiful and emotionally powerful way. Shutting down human sexuality is not something I am interested in engaging in.
Gooner freaks stop insisting that your addiction to watching women (or gay teen boys) be sexually brutalized is inherent to being homosexual.
Same sex attraction does not require one to celebrate one of the most evil and misogynistic and exploitative industries to ever exist.
LGB drop the TQ.
You people can be rape defending sex pests in your own name.
Remember when gay people were fighting for the right to be seen as normal? I miss that.
Remember when being LGB was about the private stuff you do in your bedroom and not being a public porn-addicted freak ?
Common misunderstanding, I was never fighting to be seen as normal! I was fighting for freaks to get rights and respect actually. Also the idea that porn has nothing to do with "the private stuff you do in your bedroom", is laughable.
Anyways, when I say I have seen a uptick of backlash against expressions of queer sexuality, this is what I mean. If queers aren't allowed to be freaks, then who is?
Love to all the people who make porn, love porn, and protect porn <3