august please be good to all the friends in my phone. thank you
oh okay. heart steps right out of my chest and falls down the stairs
The tolerance paradox is solved if you consider the social contract fascists break
i said wat i said
Also nudity is not inherently sexual OR evil, y’all really need to learn to unpack that Christianity shit that’s been so enmeshed in our (Western) culture.
I’m always really moved by sex-repulsed people who are still able to be allies to extrasexual people. I deeply appreciate yall.
Hypersexuality is a clinical term where sexual behavior is a symptom of some type of trauma or mental illness. Extrasexual, supersexual or megasexual are terms people have started using for highly sexual people who aren’t doing so as a maladaptive response. Obviously the actual lines between the two are blurry since it can be hard to untangle if you have trauma, but that’s the intended difference.
We’re winning.
I found his bio on societyofpresidentialdescendants.org and it was so delightful I had to copy paste the whole thing:
“Ulysses Grant Dietz grew up in Syracuse, New York, where his Leave it to Beaver life was enlivened by his fascination with vampires, from Bela Lugosi to Barnabas Collins. He studied French at Yale (BA, 1977), and was trained to be a museum curator in the University of Delaware’s Winterthur Program in American Material Culture (MA, 1980). A decorative arts curator at the Newark Museum for thirty-seven years before he retired, Ulysses has never stopped writing for the sheer pleasure of it. Aside from books on Victorian furniture, art pottery, studio ceramics, jewelry, and the White House, Ulysses created the character of Desmond Beckwith in 1988 as his personal response to Anne Rice’s landmark novels. Alyson Books released his first novel, Desmond, in 1998. Vampire in Suburbia, the sequel, appeared in 2012. His most recent novel, Cliffhanger, was released by JMS Books in December 2020.
“Ulysses lives in suburban New Jersey with his husband of 45 years. They have two grown children, adopted in 1996.
“Ulysses is a great-great grandson of Ulysses S. Grant. His late mother, Julia, was the President’s last living great-grandchild; youngest daughter of Ulysses S. Grant III, and granddaughter of the president’s eldest son, Frederick. Every year on April 27 he gives a speech at Grant’s Tomb in New York City. He is also on the board of the U.S. Grant Presidential Library and Museum at Mississippi State University.”
And frankly, the novels sound like they slap:
Desmond was nominated for a Lambda Award.
“With his husband of 45 years.” You kids don’t know ... they got together before AIDS, at the peak of the Gay Glam Life. They stayed together as their generation died around them, and made through it to the point where they could marry and have a legal family. He looks like a chipper preppie who never had a serious thought or care in the world, but it took *incredible* determination, commitment, and also luck to get here.
we are in a media literacy crisis
friendly reminder that characters don't need to be saints to be entertaining. and telling a story does not mean endorsement. art does not need to be all about morally good people.
IDK if this was meant as hyperbole but it's literally true:
We are genuinely in a crisis of media literacy, with ever fewer genuinely factual resources available in the style and language used by contemporary audiences.
It may sound condescending, but we genuinely need to remind people, or worse, explain to them for the first time that art is not evidence of real world behaviour.
So, thank you, for this reminder. Genuinely.
You're correct:
Art does not need to feature exclusively morally pure characters. Art is not proof of the creator's secret, violent desires.
Tomoko Konoike, Moon Bear, Hunter Gatherer Tableau (2018). Plywood, water-based stain, carving, 900 x 900.
Well, you know, some bathroom graffiti offers insight.
Red marker handwriting on a bathroom wall. Text reads:
“Boss made a dollar Granddad made a dime But that was a poem From a simpler time.
Boss made a thousand Gave pa a cent But that penny paid the mortgage Or at least it paid the rent
Now Boss makes a million And gives us jack Smugly blames the workers For the labor that he lacks.”
And the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenement halls.
I think the difference is that co-ops are fully democratic while this type of utility would still have a board who’d make all the decisions?
The article wasn’t paywalled for me so it’s under the read more:
Reblogging for the readmore
The big advantage of a public utility company is that THEY ARE NOT ALLOWED TO MAKE A PROFIT. This means that generally, your energy costs will be lower, *and* if the utility company brings in extra money, they invest it in improving the system, not filling shareholders' pockets.
Where I live, the city-owned utility company provides electricity, gas, water, sewer, and garbage pickup for everyone. If you want, you can also get your internet, cable tv, and landline phone service from them at a competitive price. Our city has been recognized for having one of the fastest broadband systems in the country. We love our socialist utilities.
crowzi
stop asking neil gaiman to confirm/deny things and just violently project your own issues onto the characters the way God intended
Yall are gonna LOVE what i bought today
LOOK. at this print.
do you all remember in the early 2010s where people were talking about freeing the nipple and that mixed-gender sports should become a thing and the removal of period tax and all of that and then some people realised that would mean trans people too ans they instantly decided to revert to bioessentialism 101 and now i have to see grating sentences like Well maybe jeopardy should be gender-segregated because males have a biological advantage in pressing a button