#also my god every other post really is like anti lesbian shit. get a life

[embers-burning-bright]

you know you've stayed up too late when you find. the really fucking lesphobic comedian on youtube that somehow is really popular with zero opposition in the comments

[caliburn-the-sword]

tlc fairest thoughts

this is all gonna be one post because if i put every "levana wtf" moment i had. i would end up just posting the ENTIRE book. ngl will probably tag this as anti?? because i don't have very much that is nice to say unlike the other books. respectfully, do not press keep reading if you're gonna be upset about how i feel about fairest because i don't want you to have a bad internet experience and i don't want ME to have a bad internet experience. thanks <3

am i really going to be forced to go through a whole second-hand-embarrassment-fest as an explanation for levana's backstory

sorry the writing style is giving the cruel prince. and i am very much not a fan of that book

wait i'm really confused. levana was 15 yet is now celebrating her 17th?? did the mourning period last an entire year or???

levana is just as delulu as cress when it comes to love, but she doesn't have the excuse of being locked up for like a decade in isolation. what's her excuse lol

respect for evret for being the ONLY grown man in this goddamn series that doesn't go after minors

AND NOW LEVANA IS 16 AGAIN. looks like someone in publishing didn't notice the continuity error lmao

idk if it's because i'm tired but WHY does channary not want anyone to know the father of the baby?? and also aren't there dna tests for that which make it redundant anyway??? tho i guess if she's fucking THAT many men then she wouldn't even know where to start with testing even if she did want to

i'm sorry but there's something HILARIOUS about levana hating all these women having babies. knowing that the babies are gonna grow up to kick her ass off the lunar throne

is the queen being glamoured????? it's hard to say because she was ALREADY such a disturbed individual that it's hard to say whether this new shit is her own thoughts or someone else's

TF LEVANA WAS SET ON FIRE BY HER SISTER?????

ahhh. part of me wonders if channary glamouring her sister during early developmental stages is what made levana so fucked up to begin with

the description of how hair catches fire is entirely accurate

god. i feel so bad for evret. his entire life was ruined and then he was killed before he could ever see his daughter grow up

ngl levana didn't seem to be very proactive in HER OWN story?? it's just a bunch of things happening to her or falling into her lap CONSTANTLY. other than her glamouring evret and trying to kill cinder, she never actually DOES anything. it felt like the author had a checklist of things like "okay these all canonically happen before the events of cinder so i'm gonna tick all these off quickly". idk. didn't love it. i'm glad that at least she didn't go to any effort to redeem levana, but istg levana literally had the moral consistency of literal water. one minute she's like "time to toss this baby off a balcony" and then "boohoo i didn't realise that killing someone would ACTUALLY kill them" like girl what???? that's not to say that i WANT her to be good and whatever, in fact i mean the opposite. just let her be an evil bitch. stop with the totally random, OUT OF PLACE bouts of empathy that happen for literally no reason. pulled me out of the plot so hard every time it happened. maybe it's because of my negative feelings but it just felt very anticlimactic?? i'm just sitting here like "okay so what??"

managed to get through the slogfest but i can already feel myself slipping into a reading slump. yesterday i wanted to read winter SO bad but now i feel like i need time to recover from that read. lesbians give me strength to persevere because i KNOW that i will LOVE winter

[pumsavic]

To the anti trans community:

To the biology "experts": advanced biology goes into detail about how gender and sex aren't related. It also goes into how it's perfectly normal albeit rare to be born intersex. New studies show that transgenderism is a sub form of intersex that effects the brain. I, like many trans folk, was born with a imbalance of hormones that caused me to feel out of place in my own body; an experience I wouldn't wish on my greatest enemy. Biologically, you're just an idiot. you make fools of yourself when talking about advanced sciences you've not studied.

To religious folks: this wasn't my choice, This was God's. I didn't want to be afflicted with gender dysphoria, but I have been all of my life. God made me this way whether you want to believe it or not. If you think otherwise, then take it up to God and see for yourself. I'm sure he'll be really happy that you've forsaken every part In the Bible about loving your neighbors, or treating everyone with care and not malice.

To old/stubborn people: the only people who you're harming with your opinions is yourself. New generations will not have your opinions. Internet is a Wonderful thing, and as more people have access to it, you'll see that more younger generations are learning to accept everyone, and learning that intolerance isn't tolerated.

To political figures: to you, we may seem like insignificant people. Turning hatred onto us to spread your publicity when there are people suffering because of you, well I'll be honest it's not like I expected anything different from you. Just remember there are more voters that are allies, and less that are ignorant pieces of human garbage.

To the LGB-TQ community: fine, you win. Now you're gay and an asshole. Thanks. It's funny how gay and lesbian people were fucking HUNTED years ago and now that it's happening to trans folk you're just hopping on the band wagon. If you can't beat them join them right?

To the people who just feel "uncomfortable": grow up. Seriously, grow up. You don't choose to be trans, and you can't be persuaded you are. If that were fucking possible then by reading this you'll be hypnotized into being trans. OBVIOUSLY THATS NOT HOW IT WORKS STOP BEING DUMB. There are good and bad people in every group of people. I'm not gonna sugarcoat this, there will be trans folk who do stupid stuff. but just because Jeffrey Epstein was white do you think all white people are pedo rapists? If not then why think all trans folk are the same?

To you "transgenderism doesn't exist" people: the fuck you mean? I'm not playing this game of "here's the proof" shit with you. You're just someone who won't read it. let me break it down for you. You met someone who thought they were trans, ended up recoming out as cis so they weren't trans. What part of that is hard to understand? They weren't trans. I'll bet you haven't met anyone who's trans. And if you had you probably had a thought of "well if that other person wasn't then it just doesn't exist, so this person isn't either" but let me tell you something. Transgenderism isn't something that easy. Most trans folk are quiet about it all, knowing the hate others get for being loud about it. Most trans folk keep their heads down. "What about you then? Why do you get to be loud?" Because I'm fucking angry. I'm posting this to my own fucking profile in HOPES that nobody sees this. BECAUSE I don't want to be seen as loud. But just because I'm trans doesn't mean I shouldn't be able to get mad.

To all trans folk: Let me make this clear. It's okay if you're experimenting with your gender, and it's okay if it turns out you're not trans. The LGBT community is understanding and patient. almost to a detriment however. For every trans person who re-comes out as cis, it makes us look like idiots. "I've never met such a person who un came out" well unfortunately I have. Sure it's rare, most people who are trans will most likely stay trans, but that doesn't mean everyone is trans. That person admitted they were lonely and didn't have friends and they felt comfortable being around people who treated them like a brave person. They un-came out as trans after realizing it wasn't a choice. They hated themselves for not actually being trans, and they felt like a horrible person for pretending like they were. I'm of the opinion that it's fine to experiment, but do equally as much research. If you're not sure who to talk to, try a trusted councilor or therapist. Even better, ask a post transition transgender person, if they're comfortable. It's not a choice tho. Please don't take advantage of this kindness.

To my dad:

I understand your pain. being molested by a trans person... It's understandable why you'd hate all of them. You went to college and understand that it's not a choice. You spent the time to understand the biology behind trans folk, and you have made me understand that to you I am accepted. I'm lucky to be understood by someone who is transphobic, As weird as that is, but it hurts to see people I relate with so much being hated by you. You aren't faking it either, you truly accept me as your daughter, but your trauma gets in the way of you being okay with me being trans. Because of the battle you're fighting with your trauma, and accepting me, it's caused me to think that you don't accept me, but I know you'd get up in arms brawling it out of my sake if someone called me a slur. I just wish you could put that trauma away for my sake too. Im not asking you to forgive that person whoever it was. Just don't hold trans folk in your heart as the villains.

[sailorvinus]

☠ and 🐶

✨ anonymous. meme. still accepting!

☠️ for something that will result in a instant unfollow from you.

being really creepy about vi and this happens a lot. ill give u an example of something someone said to me like. 10 whole minutes after following me.

is this not awful... vgfdsjgfdjkl. this isnt even the worst case. ive had people call him a twink even ic when it wasnt warranted and from other nongay male muses im pretty sure someone rping a white woman startled hurling anti-gay shit at him unwarranted. i think a wild instance is last year i shipped w. someone i really enjoyed but then they reblogged a post that was anti non-straight relationships??? and when i confronted them on it they said they dont like lgbt+ ppl who write lgbt+ characters because they got bullied by a lesbian once. THEN??? WHY ARE YOU SHIPPING W. ME HEEEEEELP. anyway. blocked!

send 🐶 for a role play related pet peeve.

i want people to stop saying ‘ female muses matter ’ when it’s just as hard if not harder for nonwhite men or men that are trans or both. to say that all men have it easy is absolute bullshit!! lol esp if ur muse is a white woman theyre just as guilty of being put on a pedestal as white men. and stop saying u support women in the rpc and then all u do is thread w. the most generic caucasians ive ever seen in my life.

im going to take a section out of a post by @destructiveglitch who put it just right:

‘ i really think its very easy to say ‘female muses are underappreciated!’ when its so much more complicated than that. that doesn’t mean im ignoring the fact that a white man will, most likely, get more attention than characters who are women. and yes, you’re allowed to whine if your character whos a white femme fatale doesnt get as much appreciation. but, at the very least, for the love of god, think about how your character has their own privileges because theyre still white. the same goes for other privileges they might have.

also, food for thought: do men get more attention in the rpc? when you think about it, in a way. but does a character whos a trans brown man get more attention than a cishet white woman? does a character whos a gay black man get more attention than a white woman? if they do, they probably had to work a lot harder for it than you give them credit for, and they deserve every ounce of recognition and appreciation they get. ’

that’s that on that. im gonna be honest...... it rly be like when i see those posts... r ppl ignoring ur woman cuz shes a woman or because ur boring and cant write or u dont reach out enough and then blame a nonfactor that isnt related and is just a veil for ur own laziness???? food 4 thought.

sometimes the phone call is coming from inside the house.

[prorevenge]

Want to f**k with your child’s life? You picked the wrong child.

This is not a hate post. This is about the revenge that we got on these bastards, pure and simple. If you want to go off all high and mighty about how awful <Topic> is since it was in this story, fuck off and do it somewhere else. This is about her revenge, not your opinion.

Anyways, let’s begin.

I’m going to retell the original story from the MC post because I left a lot out there. Sorry if you already read it.

About three years ago, I was in a multi-school academic support network, which had a summer camp. At this camp, I met K.

K was a closeted lesbian, and was very scared of us telling her parents due to their extreme political and narcissistic views. I had dealt with this situation a few times, but not on this extreme of a level. Her parents were so far off the end of the scale, I dared not say anything about politics or religion in fear of starting an inquisition. These people made Westboro look like moderates.

To give an example, they had complete control over her phone, emails, mail, and pretty much every other route of communication. So when they decided one of her friends was “too Jewish” (his last name sounded Jewish to them) they deleted him from her life. They called the program and rearranged her schedule so she would never see him. Later, we found out they filed false, anonymous complaints against him so he wouldn’t be invited back. Overnight, they removed him from her life.

And this was not the last kid they did this with.

K was terrified of her parents, but they owned her. There was no way to escape short of suddenly becoming an adult.

I was seriously worried about her, to the point where I bought her an emergency-only prepaid phone, which I told her to hide. This was, unequivocally, the best decision I’ve ever made.

Fast-forward to January. K is struggling with the stress of everything, and says something innocuous in group chat along the lines of “good thing I don’t have to worry about boys”.

We suddenly stop hearing responses from her. Her cell phone goes offline. The house phone kicks all of our numbers, but not pay phones or other lines. The parents pick up, but say that there’s no one with that name at this address, then hang up. Her classmate says she doesn’t show up for class that day. Alarm bells are going off for everyone.

And then I get the call from K. “Please, come pick me up. I was kicked out. It’s cold.”

I’m the closest, and I had a car, and I was driving in blowing, heavy snow in far below freezing weather. I won’t say that rage and panic fueled me, but I will say it got me there in one piece. I have never, ever, driven a car as recklessly, as hard, or as fast as I did that day.

When I got there she was huddled under a tarp, barefoot, in pajamas, at the foot of her house’s stairs. The parents saw my car and rush out to scream at me for “taking their child from the path of god” and “corrupting her with devil worshipping ideas” or some shit like that. I told them that if she listened to me, it was the first time she had ever done that.

And then the critical sentence (direct quote for once): “she’s not our child anymore! You godless heathen ruined her mind!” And then, “She’s no daughter of ours!”

Now, I’m going to pause this for a moment to preface everything that happens from this point on: this is not a pro-atheist or anti-Christian post. These whack jobs are the furthest thing from human I’ve ever seen. Do not use them as a generalization for <Religious Group> or a bandwagon to sell your ideals. I’m not dealing with that shit here.

K, freezing and scared, hides in my car. The parents start to get aggressive and hostile towards me, so I make two things very clear to them.

I am recording everything they say. I have a camera on my car and my phone, and I have a police officer waiting for me at the foot of the driveway (I called the cops before I arrived due to not feeling safe).

I am leaving and never coming back, as per their request. K will be coming with me, since she is not their daughter, per their screaming rant.

They start arguing with (aka screaming over) me about how she can be ‘cured’ by methods that range from dubious to straight up illegal. By this point, I’m done. I get back in my car while they’re screaming at me and head back down the driveway.

The cop and I have a short chat, and he recommends we be brought to the police station ASAP to prevent the parents from saying I kidnapped her. After a six-hour ER visit for her hypothermia and minor frostbite, escorted by police, we arrive. All of my video and audio recordings are entered into official records, and the officer’s dashcam footage, and K’s ER report are filed away.

I didn’t know it at the time, but all of that would prove to be essential in court later.

I sign her into a hotel in my town, and lawyer up. The lawyer I know specifically deals with cases like hers for free. He is very, very good at it.

There was a lot of legalese, and a long process and a lot of angry exchanges that I really didn’t understand or participate in, but two years later, she was emancipated. I got to be a witness, and that recording and the ER report cinched the case, proving neglect. The parents didn’t even try to argue against it, instead using some weird religious law argument.

K’s older half-brother learned what was happening during the first year and supported her financially while she was in school. He hated the parents far more than either of us did (K feared them more and I was just disgusted by them).

It wasn’t much of a fight. The parents represented themselves, and tried to drop the case on “religious grounds”, which isn’t a thing.

After this, the revenge started. And K did not hold back.

During proceedings, it was discovered that the parents had been using their children’s Social Security cards for loans, credit, bank accounts, and other sketchy stuff. They were already going to jail for that, but K took it to the next level.

Now, these were all the things K told me after the fact. I wasn’t involved in this part, and I didn’t write down all the details that well, but the following is approximately what happened from what I have been told or remember.

So, WARNING; fuzzy details.

One of the things that had been purchased in her name was the father’s truck. K reported it as missing, since she was technically an owner of the truck. They pulled the father over and confiscated the truck as stolen, because his name was not in the title, the wife’s was. When he tried to prove it was his by filling out the bill of sale on the back, he found that the title for the vehicle had been invalidated when K had ordered a new one and donated the vehicle to the fire department for Jaws-of-Life training. That same day.

The mother’s credit cards were the same, but K just cancelled all of them and declared ID theft. This froze some of the mother’s bank accounts, which were under K’s SSN.

The family was already in chaos but K cranked it to 11. Due to the SSN, K was listed as the main contact for the family’s cell phone and internet plans. She cancelled both. She killed the email accounts in her name that she could access and rerouted her mail to her new PO Box, where she may have “accidentally” forgotten to say they should only reroute her mail.

She also called in repossessions on everything that had been bought with her SSN on credit. The loans included renovations on the home, so the parents were forced to sell.

By the time K was done, the parents were happy to go to jail for fraud, identity theft, and their other, numerous crimes rather than live on the street.

All I do know is that they became social pariahs in town before that. Stores banned them for their increasingly violent attempts at converting people. People they knew for years turned on them. The father was fired for failing a performance review, and the mother lost her job selling <Stuff?> due to her increased radicalization.

In the end, K’s siblings went to live with her half-brother since he was the closest living relative. The parents lost all rights to visitation, as the state nullified their parental rights and gave guardianship to the half-brother, mostly due to the criminal charges.

But the real revenge might just be that as the sentencing was carried out, K flipped the parents off in front of the judge and the judge just laughed at the parent’s attempts to claim it was hate speech.

TL;DR: Narcissistic and awful parents attempt to ruin child’s life for being lesbian. Child sends them to jail.

(source) (story by CynicalAltruist)

[boglog]

Wholesome Questionare Tag Meme

Tagged by @80sglamcowboy Rules are: -Post the rules -Answer the questions given to you by the tagger -Write eleven questions of your own -Tag eleven people

This is long as Hell, friends and I apologise.

One inquisitive bitch has asked me:

1. Name one person (real or fictional) that you think you could 100% take on in a fight

Foaming mouth guy from Avatar. He’s got no stamina, barely any health, no skill. He’s unfocused and weak and my noodley nerd-ass could take him. (Though I am a little concerned he has rabies.)

2. What’s your favourite snack rn

Grilled cheese w veggies, mustard, and grilled tofu w a side of ketchup made by my roommate. It’s honestly the purest thing.

3. Which apocalypse do you think you’d do the best in? (i.e. Nuclear winter/ robot uprising/ Too many vampires, etc)

O man. I love apocalypse movies and I love survival horror (that one episode of the X Files where they’re trapped in a cabin, anybody?). I also genuinely love camping and I’m a bit of a medical hobbyist. I also watched an unreasonable amount of prepper videos on YouTube. That said, as mentioned above, I am a couch potato weekling. Furthermore, I don’t do well in conflict so if the world hierarchy collapses into a power vacuum where you have to Orange is the New Black-style intimidate ppl for supplies, I would melt and die quickly.

My best bet, it would seem, is an Arrival-esque alien apocalypse where the ones who have enough patience and sci fi knowledge to communicate w aliens are at the top of the food chain. And worst case scenario it’s better for my ego to die at the hands of an alien than a human.

Sci go apocalypses are just cleaner y'know ¯\_(ツ)_/¯


4. Best and worst fandom you’ve been in? Or have you somehow managed to avoid fandom completely?

Worst has to be Steven Universe. I regret not just moving on after I got bored. Ah well.

(I also think celebrity/real ppl fandoms are a dead end.)

My other fandoms all have various pros and cons and it’s hard to pick a favourite.

Adventure Time has great fanart, great meta and ppl have yet to descend into Homestuck-ian chaos. That said, they’re quiet af. People also fixate way too much on the fake fanfic AU Fionna and Cake. I have yet to read a really good Bonny/Marcy fic and that is a tragedy (a few have come close tho). Bottom line for AT tho is that it’s my go to wholesome cartoonist fandom. I like that it has depth but that it’s generally very simple and fun and that the fans are mostly shut in animation adults.

AtLA/LoK fandom’s biggest pro is that it’s huge and you literally never ran out of quality content. I’ve even made a few friends via this decade old franchise. It’s also enjoyably rich and complex. One of my favourite (now inactive) blogs was one that connected world building and little background Easter eggs to real Chinese history and culture. That wAs so cool!! I defs think as a Chinese person it allowed me to connect to non-western culture in a socially acceptable way.

The downsides tho are many: it can be overwhelmingly complicated (esp as someone who knows jack shit abt Chinese history), people take it too seriously, The Great Shipping Wars, it’s so big it’s a little lonely, the show itself has so many flaws upon greater inspection you wonder why you wasted your time on anything related to it, it’s an Asian themed story created by white dudes who make fun of their fans, the best parts of the show were written by other writers but those same white guys get k the credit. Also as w any fandom related to POC culture, racism happens. Anyways most of you know this already. IMO the best thing to have happened do the fandom is korrasami. Now it’s just abt Asian lesbians ruling the world.

(Though I also thoroughly enjoy the Family Rivalry part of the fandom. There are so mNy dysfunctional families to choose from!)

Rick and Morty is technically speaking my newest fandom. It’s got a lot of obvious cons (pickle Rick sexists, Szechuan sauce racists, asfhkkh incest) but one other con is just how pedantic and overly analytical people are abt the world building. I can’t breathe wo being corrected. RM has a misleadingly complicated high sci fi aesthetic that begets the kind of overanalysing my brand of overanalytical nerdiness can’t handle. Too many alternate universes. It’s just too complicated.

However one thing I like is that conversely I can overanalyse the writing and characters’ psychology/relationships (which I LOVE) and ppl take me very seriously. (At least they used to.) it’s kinda validating to have your 3k word essay on an old man’s bedroom and what that signifies for his depression get over 1k notes.

Rm also attracts the fun, super talented animation crowd so there’s boundless fanart and memes. I never knew I would like a gravity falls crossover retirement home AU btwn Rick and Stan so much but the art is objectively gorgeous?? So ??

I really dislike the lack of attention the female characters get from fandom bc they’re all really great? Female rep is limited but both canon and fic really do their 2-3 tokens justice. Also the jerry hatred is getting old (that male aggression… Like… Calm down, Jake) but it’s a refreshing departure drom when Megg from family guy was the butt of the joke.

Harry Potter, one of the pillars of nerd society, has both changed my life and irreconcilably annoyed me to death. (W no thanks to the racist creator herself!) One can’t underestimate how huge the hp fandom is which offers you as many reasons to love it as reasons not to. Harry Potter’s canon has complex world building that’s also charming enough not to take itself too seriously and much the same could b said of fanon. To a degree. Certain corners of the fanbase are fantastic shitposters and meme-ers and can draw you back in like a black hole. Casually enjoying Harry potter imo is where it’s at. The fanfic is probably one of the most impressively vast. Strangers at Drakesaugh, believe it or not, still updates and not only that, I still read it.

Not casually enjoying Harry potter is, um, yikes? HP and Hunger Games love to insert themselves appropriately in real life political traumas and honestly the dedication of the fandom can be overwhelming.

The HP fanart corner of deviantart circa 2010-12 and @flocc HP comics however are the best.

Meet the Robinsons, Ye Olde Fandom, still stands to this day. (Thanks in part to me ngl) As Iroh might say, they are a proud people. MTR is so bizarre and tiny it’s the only fandom I was able to read EVERY fic summary in existence (ones published on obscure sites excepted). The fandom has never ceased to surprise me for better or worse and mostly due to its age range. The original movie was intended for 8-12 yr olds and their (jaded) parents which means that now, ten years later, the fans are anywhere between 12 and 25. It has approximately 20 pieces of professional-grade fanart and fic and I am downright serious abt the quality and thoughtful complexity of this minority of fanart. Like I shit you not some of it’s almost too dark. However, tragically, one can’t talk abt obscure Disney fandoms wo also mentioning the incest ships (this is what happens when middleschoolers have to resort to cartoons to explore their sexuality in an anti sex ed world), the disorganised crossovers, and the blinding lack of imagination. Nonetheless, that a fandom of any kind could sprout from a 90 min cgi movie before the recession, based off an obscure but objectively fascinating children’s book, is still impressive. The fandoms smallness can in many wars work to everybody’s benefit: it’s a tightly knit community w little to no drama. And lots of memes (that I mostly make) to enjoy sincerely or ironically.

I’m also going to mention, very briefly, the Twin Peaks fandom, most of whom, even the die hards, are v casual when it comes to fan content (I need more fic damnit). Nonetheless it’s a decidedly cool art kid crowd for an art house show and I really enjoy befriending twin peaks watchers.

5. What’s one hot food that you prefer cold? (or, alternatively, one cold food you like hot)

Is it snobby to say I like food to be the temperature God intended?

Like I like cold pizza and salad-y pasta but I wouldn’t mind if everything were room temperature as long as the food itself was well made.

6. ya like jazz? What music do you enjoy listening to? Can you recommend any songs/ artists from that genre?

I think in some contexts I can like jazz. It’s very cosy and nostalgic, it can make you feel like a grand dame stepping out of your limo into your martini filled mansion as records pop around you and your fur carpeted living room. I also occasionally like jazz covers and alternate genres of jazz like electro swing etc.

Generally though I also think jazz is a little antiquated and a little all over the place. I lean more towards the ambiguous minimalism of mellow techno music like Jonna Lee, Grimes, Björk, early Lorde, Yasmine Hamdan, Austra, TRST, etc

I mean I don’t stick to just one genre (I imagine most ppl don’t). I like alternative (Tori Amos, Regina Spektor, Joanna Newsom) and some musicians who seem to completely exist outside of genre like iMonster and the Gorillaz. Not to mention straight up pop like broods, Ellie goulding, lady gaga and Lana del rey. (I mean technically Ldr isn’t pop but u get the ideer)

7. What binge worthy show do you like?

So many man. There are so many out there! Twin peaks, Transparent, Love, Grace and Frankie, Adventure Time, House of Cards, Bojack Horseman, Rick and Morty, Mad Men, Girls, Broad City, Black Mirror, Avatar TLA, 6Teen, Chowder, Over the Garden Wall, Flapjack, the first season of Downton Abbey, Game of Thrones, etc

The list goes on. I’m a TV fiend.

8. What’s an old meme that you miss and wish would be brought back?

Always liked the Gothic [x town or whatever] meme. It was like a text post version of the cursed images meme. Currently I’m really enjoying the song from another room meme and I hope even after it gets old it’ll make a comeback.

9. Tell me your aesthetic



O man. That’s a can of worms! Okay. Deep breath.

I like futurism, of all kinds. I like strong lines and clear shapes. I like colour blocking and minimalism and glass and holographic LED neons. I like white Japanese urban tiled buildings. I like aliens and ruins and cubes and white and colour blocking and black. I like technology and aliens and Comme des Garçons and Issey Miyake. Rooms that are empty but for one light and one window and one plant. Love that.

I like the midcentury cubism and Mod and 30’s futurism. Clear and strong industrial shapes and curves and post modernist abstractionism.

I also love nature, I love most every Björk and Iamamiwhoami music video. I love the mountains and the forests and the desert and the winter tundra and most of all I love the water. A vast expanse of sky and sea w so many colours and textures. I love the 2000s and funny blob shapes and y2k’s obsession w secondary colours and shiny round things. Love pink. I am a grown adult who will never tire of pink. (Though I don’t really like when people overdo pink.) I love cursed image family photos taken with flash in a suburb. I love the grime and the sanitary aesthetic of suburbs and hospitals and brutalist office spaces. The fluorescent lights of the institution but with purple carpeting!

I love 70s mod and I love colorful 80s brutalism I like it when houses are shaped weirdly and they have carpets and polished curved wooden countertops and spacious nothingness where everything looks clean and cosy and bizarrely ugly and it all looks like an art gallery w too many plants.

I also really love maximalism and wood and detail and fur and velvet and embroidery and silk and windows and wood carvings.

I love 70s kitsch like John waters movies and Shrimps designer fake fur CDG17 where they just piled on knickknack after knickknack onto white dresses w food long trains. Toys and novelty items and lamps shaped like a woman’s leg in a fishnet stocking. (See also: most Tim burton movies, wes Anderson, Carrie fishers house)

An overwhelming mishmash of wool patterns with clean cubic 70s architecture and so many plants and windows and wallpaper and candles and cobwebs. Also really like witchy mourning jewelry and essentially every house in Harry potter. Love the unfortunately racist boho/hippie aesthetic. Any house designed by bill kirsch is a masterpiece. Woven baskets on the ceiling piles of hats and art supplies everywhere. Stuff!! Everywhere! Hidden passageways reading nooks fireplaces the Pink Palace from Coraline!

Everything!!!

I’m a cartoonist who’s a nerd for design so I like when concepts are taken to the extreme in a humourously charming and clear-minded way. Whatever aesthetic someone chooses, they should go all out and really dedicate themselves to the highest form of that aesthetic. It has to be perfect without being sanitary of fake. It has to be alive yet beautiful, frozen in one perfect moment.

10. Favourite time of day and why?

Dusk. I think it’s a nostalgia thing. I loved the hours before bed time as well the hours before dinner when it was getting dark and the sun was reflecting freaky colours along the horizon while I ran around the grass. It’s cozy but it’s spacious and adventurous. So many things can happen at dusk!



11. You have the choice to live in any fictional universe - which one do you pick and why?

Harry Potter!!! You get the best of both worlds: magical, over-romanticised Victorian/medievalism, wish-fulfillment surrealism and wifi. It’s great. Likelihood of dying is so low, medicine is so advanced and even then ppls n°1 choice of lethal weapon (Avada Kedavra) is painless. Me and Luna could hang in her garden. I’d never have to pay for the subway again. I could live a nomadic life in a tent w infinite space. If you chose to live as a wizard amongst Muggles you’re basically god and you can cheat capitalism. Gravity is my bitch! And I’m not gna lie my dream house has always been a combination of The Burrow, the Lovegood house, and Shell Cottage.

My turn to pick your brain:

1 Favourite texture?

2 Favourite smell?

3 Favourite children’s book/children’s TV show? (I’m talking about the bizarre abstract ones for toddlers)

4 Best and worst prank you’ve ever pulled?

5 Weirdest beginning of a friendship?

6 When you’ve been in fandom for a while you start to notice you’ve a habit of staying in the same corners. What corner are you in? Are you part of the fluffy ship corner? The intense world building spec meta corner? The shitpost comic fanart corner? Etc

7 If you could invent a class that would be obligatory for all high schools across your country what would it be?

8 What’s the weirdest thing you’ve gotten at Halloween while trick or treating?

9 Weirdest family tradition of yours?

10 Describe your significant other (or your crush, or your dream partner or if you’re aromantic your fave person) through only TV references.

11 Favourite piece of dialogue in a movie?

I don’t know 11 ppl but nonetheless tagging: @that-guy-in-the-bowler-hat @skairheart @nochangenohope @eventheslightestrayofsunshine@autistic-jaredkleinman@phoenixkluke

…and YOU (if you were not mentioned above and so choose to accept this mission)

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Bill Potts Appreciation Post

okay friends i’m here to talk to you about our lord and saviour bill potts, aka the best companion since donna noble, because i’ve seen a lot of folks they’re gonna start watching doctor who again now jodie whittaker is 13 (and don’t get me wrong, i am absolutely fucking delighted about this - if you listen very carefully you can probably still hear my screams of joy reverberating through the space-time continuum), but so many people I’ve spoken too also did not watch season 10 and that, my friends, is a goddamn tragedy.

now, i know why you all stopped watching. so did i. i just finished a marathon rewatch of new who and let me tell you, getting through the last few seasons was a chore. but even before whittaker was announced, i was getting enthusiastic about the show again, and do you know why? Bill Potts.

Bill, in no particular order, is: black, gay, living with a foster mum, serving chips in a university canteen, attending the Doctor’s lectures in her spare time, and then getting firsts repeatedly on all the work she does for him. She doesn’t take any shit, she calls him out when he doesn’t measure up and doesn’t save people, she saves his life numerous times. She is funny and brilliant, she has made me cry, and her relationship with the Doctor is absolutely beautiful. They go from teacher and student to best friends and because Bill is gay, there’s not even a mention of romance. It’s just a really wholesome friendship and without wanting to spoil the finale, I will tell you that Bill gets an ending which is both happy and gay, with a brilliant lesbian kiss (on primetime family tv!!! I was so happy, you have no idea).

season 10 got some of the lowest viewing figures since the reboot, and whilst it does reflect the impact of moffat’s reign of terror and poor writing, it’s such a shame that bill hasn’t had the reception she deserves. the series is up on iplayer until the end of july so please, please watch it or download it, preferably legally so the beeb gets the right figures and gets the message that we want more characters like bill! yes, the series has its flaws (why nardole had to stay, i have no idea, and the whole concept of missy getting a redemption arc is just... ugh) but it also features such highlights as: emoji robots! david suchet as a creepy student landlord! anti-capitalist spacesuit shenanigans! the pope! un secretary-general ban ki-moon! a lot of jokes about fake news! victorians on mars! bisexual roman soldiers! the return of john simm!

some of bill’s best bits under the cut (spoiler warning!)

- Doctor what?

- ‘do you know scifi?’

- the whole sequence when she gets inside the tardis (’is this a knock-through?’’it’s like a kitchen’ ‘oh my god, it’s a lift!’) 

- ‘so the tardis has dresses and likes a bit of trouble? I think I’m lowkey in love with her.’

- ‘regency england. bit blacker than they show in the movies.’ ‘so was jesus. history’s a whitewash.’

- the bit when the doctor punches a racist in the face for being rude to her. (although, martha is my favourite ever companion and this scene made me so frustrated for what poor martha was put through by the doctor, particularly in the family of blood episodes, but that’s a whole other post and this one is about bill...)

- uses the tardis as a removal van which is just... Iconic honestly

- ‘i don’t know the president, i wouldn’t even have voted for him, he’s... orange’

- the bit when she straight up shoots the doctor because she thinks he’s turned evil

- every other bit where she calls him out on his shit tbh

- the whole thing where she saves the world by projecting an image of her mum into everyone’s brains

- recommending scifi movies to the doctor

- the whole ‘i know more about the 9th legion than you’ thing

- ‘hey, you know how i’m usually all about women and kinda...people my own age?’ ‘yeah...’ ‘glad you knew that.’

- the fact that she beats cyber programming!!! who does that!!!!

- her ending is basically like... running off to travel the universe with a pretty girl which is just... Amazing

anyway i love Bill Potts and i hope the stuff about her maybe being back for the christmas special is true because she deserves everything. please watch season 10!!!

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Adam Driver, from trooper to trouper

On Veterans Day, a reminder from Adam Driver, Broadway veteran  and military veteran, and the founder of Arts in the Armed Forces, a nonprofit that brings theater to the military: “The birth of theater was from a military environment. The Greeks — Aeschylus, Euripides, all these elected generals — wrote plays for a culture that was at war.”

Other non-profit groups that help veterans pursue  the arts either as a vocation or an avocation:

United States Veterans’ Artists Alliance (USVAA)

Veteran Artist Program (VAP)

Society of Artistic Veterans (SocArtVets)

Also:

TDF’s Veterans Theatergoing Program

TDF partners with veteran groups in the city to provide free tickets to veterans to Broadway shows on select days. Next up: Tootsie on November 12, Come From Away on November 13, Beetlejuice on November 19.

The Week in New York Theater Reviews

Broadbend, Arkansas

“Broadbend, Arkansas” is billed as a musical about three generations of an African-American family in the South grappling with injustice.  While technically accurate, that’s a misleading description of a show that falls so short of what it could be, that I prefer to view it as a work in progress.

The Black History Museum

“Whoo, that was some heavy shit,” our guide says after leading us through 400 years of African-American history. It was hard to disagree. Every inch of HERE Arts Center has been transformed into an immersive “theatrical museum” – part theater, part museum — an impressively ambitious collaborative effort by a veritable army of African-American artists. “The Black History Museum, According to the United States of America” is illuminating, depressing, enraging, amusing, inspiring. It is overwhelming, in both good ways and bad.

The 2020 Book Report

David Lawson made a personal sacrifice as a public service: He read 10 campaign books, all but one by current candidates for President of the United States. From his reading, he has fashioned an hour-long show that should get wider exposure than the one-shot performance last night as part of the 2019 Gotham Storytelling Festival at the Kraine Theater

The Michaels

If Richard Nelson, the writer and director of “The Michaels,” were hired to direct the next Marvel movie, would Iron Man, Thor and the Hulk sit around the kitchen table in Rhinebeck, New York for two hours talking in barely audible voices about art, death, politics, and their old fights with Loki, while Spider-man bakes a loaf of bread, and the Black Panther takes Wolverine for a walk? That’s been the formula for Nelson’s four Apple Family plays and then his three plays in The Gabrielsseries, and it’s back once again with “The Michaels,” subtitled “Conversations During Difficult Times,” a play about a family of dancers gathering around a kitchen table in Rhinebeck, New York, which I’m hoping will be a one-off, rather than the first of yet another series.

Cyrano

Peter Dinklage’s singing voice would not normally qualify him for a role in a musical, unless in a Disney animated movie as a singing rhinoceros. But Rex Harrison couldn’t really sing either, and he was just right for My Fair Lady. In several ways, the star of Game of Thrones is an inspired hire for a musical adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac…Dinklage wears no fake nose. He doesn’t need to. He also proves once again to be a terrific actor… But ‘Cyrano’ is missing…panache.

Bella Bella

Bella Abzug spoke at my junior high school graduation, until Donna Florio’s mother told her to shut up. “This is my daughter’s graduation, not a political rally.”  Abzug paused, apologized….and kept on talking for ten more minutes, caught up in the vehemence of her argument against the latest political outrage.

That’s my most vivid memory of this fiery member of Congress, anti-war activist, influential feminist, and fearless advocate that Harry Fierstein is portraying Off-Broadway at MTC in his new solo play about her life.  Fierstein’s affection for his subject is abundantly evident in Bella Bella – so much so that he seems to have turned her into himself.

Dr. Ride’s American Beach House

The two ladies hanging out on the roof are lesbians; they just don’t know it yet. The title of Liza Birkenmeier’s play, which marks her Off-Broadway playwriting debut, may seem to promise something rollicking, but what unfolds is actually small, slow and seemingly random, existing almost entirely as subtext.  “Dr. Ride’s American Beach House” is largely about repressed desire.

The Week in New York Theater News

Bob Martin

Luke Kirby plays a movie star trying on “Hamlet” and Rachel McAdams a young member of the company in the first season of “Slings & Arrows.”

The first and biggest (and ok, only) scoop I’ve had on NewYorkTheater.me was when Bob Martin told me on Twitter that he and his two co-creators were contemplating a fourth season for “Slings and Arrows,” the cult Canadian TV series about a fictional theater suspiciously similar to the Stratford Festival.  The show is so wildly beloved that his Twitter remarks became international news, which I milked in a couple of subsequent posts, here and here.

That was seven years ago! Now, the TV critic of the L.A.Times casually  mentions in an interview with Martin’s two co-creators Susan Coyne and Mark McKinney the Slings and Arros “prequel they are currently shopping,”:

“Now you’ve written a prequel, “Amateurs.”

Mark McKinney: Yes. I’ve always loved that word, because of the Latin root, “to love.” There was kind of a lot of “Could you do a Season 4?” and we noodled around…We were driving down [to Stratford] and started talking about Cyril and Frank [gay, older members of the New Burbage company, played by Graham Harley and Michael Polley], because you were explaining to me how nice it was to drive down in the spring, and we thought, “Oh, my God, Cyril and Frank, what would it have been like in 1953 if they had been part of the original festival, not knowing that they were about to walk into the first society that would embrace who they were?”

The interview explains just what’s so terrific about the original three seasons of “Slings and Arrows

The Minutes will open at the Cort Theater on March 15, 2020 with Tracy Letts himself in the cast, along with  Ian Barford (currently in Letts’ “Linda Vista”), Blair Brown, Cliff Chamberlain, K. Todd Freeman, Armie Hammer, Danny Mccarthy, Jessie Mueller, Sally Murphy, Austin Pendleton, Jeff Still

Ivo Van Hove’s  West Side Story, which begins previews in December but doesn’t open until February, will be just one act (no intermission) — “I want to make a juggernaut,” Van Hove tells Adam Green in Vogue. To that end, he’s omitting the song “I Feel Pretty” and the Somewhere ballet — and adding videos!

Broadway’s Dirty Secret :Ivo Van Hove’s success shows how much American commercial theater relies on European state funding, as Helen Lewis details in The Atlantic.

The Trojan Women Project Festival at La MaMa ETC will feature a newly re-imagined version of La MaMa’s groundbreaking 1973 “The Trojan Women,” directed by Andrei Serban, with some original members of the cast and artists from  Guatemala, Cambodia and Kosovo. The two-week festival includes workshops, panel discussions, and performances. December 6-15th.

    Jagged Musical’s lottery at JaggedLottery.com and rush at the Broadhurst box office are both $40.

Whoa. Performances of Death of a Salesman in London starring @WendellPierce had to be stopped when the ceiling fell in. Five theatergoers hospitalized with minor injuries.https://t.co/snGAEaCi0U pic.twitter.com/k5EYUsYKxq

— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) November 9, 2019

She Persisted, the musical adaptation of Chelsea Clinton and Alexandra Boiger’s illustrated feminist picture book, “She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World, will play at Atlantic Theater in 2020.

   Composer Marc Shaiman (Hairspray, Catch Me If You can, Smash, etc.) will write original music for the revival of Plaza Suite, starring Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker, directed by John Benjamin Hickey, which opens on Broadway’s Hudson Theater on April 13, 2020.

Yes, you CAN make a living as a playwright: Playwright Lauren Yee has won over $400,000 in literary prizes in 2019

Critics Corner

Michael Billington is retiring as theater critic for The Guardian after 48 years. He will be succeeded by Arifa Akbar.  Billington began at the British newspaper in 1971 and has written roughly 10,000 reviews,.“I shall shortly be 80 and, with the years, the stress of writing to a deadline doesn’t get any easier”

  The Power of the Critic: A Discussion

with Manohla Dargis (co-chief film critic for The New York Times), Antwaun Sargent (independent writer and critic and author of The New Black Vanguard: Photography between Art and Fashion), Jillian Steinhauer (art critic for The New York Times), and Daniel Mendelsohn (editor-at-large of The New York Review), moderated by Lucas Zwirner (head of content of David Zwirner).

On “thumbs up” criticism:

Manohla Dargis: Do you ever feel like a seller? Because there was an editor who used to always ask me to make sure I put a little word in the first sentence so everyone knew if I liked the movie or didn’t. But I just wanted them to read me. Maybe they’ll figure it out from my enthusiasm around writing, but I want them to know in my own sweet time.

Daniel Mendelsohn: What always gets eroded is any possibility of complexity. Thumbs up, thumbs down, five stars, one star—this is idiotic, right? Because most things are mixed. Don’t tell them everything in the first paragraph—because you liked certain things but not others, and that’s how most things are. If the whole discourse becomes “like/not like,” that’s not conducive to anything interesting.

  Rest In Peace

Laurel Griggs, 13, Broadway veteran of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and Once.

  Veterans and Theater. Slings and Arrows returns for real!? Van Hove’s West Side Story Not Feeling Pretty. #Stageworthy News of the Week On Veterans Day, a reminder from Adam Driver, Broadway veteran  and military veteran, and the founder of…

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Kelly Clarkson Talks Artistic Liberation, Confronting Anti-LGBT Parents

During her 15-year career as your friendly pop spirit-lifter, Kelly Clarkson has prescribed a cheap alternative to therapy: anthemic pick-me-ups like “Since U Been Gone” and “People Like Us,” songs that impel a transcendental, fist-raised state.

Late-night Facebook Live sessions are also her thing, and recently, the American Idol alum geeked out like she’d just won “Idol” all over again about her soulful rebirth, Meaning of Life, released on her new label, Atlantic Records. It was just Clarkson chillin’ on the couch with a glass of red wine that was much deserved, considering the artistic sacrifices she had to make post-“Idol,” when she felt creatively stagnate as a Top 40 machine for RCA Records. But aside from a fat glass of red, Clarkson has other strong urges too.

Due, in part, to her simply being so damn cool, Clarkson – who drowned the world in their own tears right along with her own as she was crowned the inaugural “Idol” winner in 2002 – tells me she feels so compelled to stick up for her LGBT besties she literally wants to go door-to-door and talk some sense into her friends’ homophobic parents.

Because her friends ask her not to, she doesn’t. But here, with the ever-outspoken and now-artistically-liberated Clarkson leaving almost no opinion unturned, the Texas native makes that point loud and clear. Before getting back to being a mom to River Rose, 3, and Remington Alexander, 1, as well as husband Brandon Blackstock’s kids Seth and Savannah from a previous relationship, Clarkson spoke like one. Even her simple “diva” request – a “pretty dress to sing in” – is enough to make you wish you were on that couch with her and a bottle of Pinot.

Mariah, P!NK, Kesha – so many female artists have gone through the creative struggles you have.

Oh, every artist. It’s so not unique in any way.

How good does it feel to finally be yourself artistically?

It just feels freeing to make an entire project and, in its entirety, I’m 100 percent excited about it. There wasn’t any compromise. It’s how I feel the creative industry should feel. There’s nothing like working on something you’re so proud of.

Please tell me you at least got a little sloppy at a gay club to celebrate the end of your contract with RCA.

(Laughs) Brother, I got four kids and a career, I ain’t got time to go to clubs! I’m rockin’ a 1-, 3-, 10- and 16 year-old, man. You know what club I go to? The club of playing board games with my family…which, actually, I love.

Plus, you have your farm just outside Nashville. You’ve got chickens to raise!

We’ve got our chickens, our honeybees, and our orchard. We love our farm.

Have you sent RCA Records head Clive Davis a copy of the album?

(Laughs) Be like, “This is what I was wanting to do this whole time!” Yeah, no. (Laughs) You know what’s so sad: I was so excited to work with him. You have no idea. He worked with so many of my favorites: Janis (Joplin), and he worked with Bruce Springsteen way back in the day. All these artists who were very innovative in their time, and I was so excited. That’s been one of the saddest points for me in this industry – just figuring out that someone I really look up to just was not what they seemed. That was a pretty big blow. I was pretty sad about that. Like, we don’t always need to meet our heroes.

In some ways, your story of artistic suppression is relatable to the LGBT community. As an ally, do you recognize that affinity?

Talking with my gay or lesbian friends over the years, I can’t imagine. I’ve always said I can’t imagine not being able to be myself in and out. And, yes, while I can relate a bit musically to feeling like you’re going over massive hurdles to try and get to a compromise that you’re happy with, that’s nothing in comparison to hearing my friends talk about (being gay), especially in the South where I grew up, and then the faith thing comes into play.

I had one friend wait, and this is the saddest thing ever: I don’t think she ever felt comfortable in her skin because her parents were older. So, they passed away and then she finally felt free. I thought, “What a horrible feeling to have to wait until people aren’t around to be yourself.” I could never ever relate to that. I feel horrible that anybody has to go through that. It’s almost like when people ask me about other artists who have all these shticks about them and I’m like, “Oh God that would weigh on me if I had to keep that up, if I had to keep doing shit to make everyone happy.”

Walking onto the stage in, like, a pretty dress to sing, that’s really the extent of my diva, or just my experience on the stage. I’ve always just been very simple. Even in situations, musically, where I really had to fight or jump through hoops, I still was able to be myself, which I think people didn’t like because I was very open. But I have to do that. I have to express myself. Literally, I would go in such a downward spiral of depression if I weren’t able to, and that’s why, honestly, a lot of friends, especially who are gay and lesbian, felt that way. I pray to God my children never have to feel that, that people around me don’t have to feel that. I always hope that I’m always the one person going, “If they’re upset about it, screw it. It’s your life. You can’t “not” be you. You can’t suffer just because you’re trying to make somebody else happy. That’s not a life.”

That sounds exactly like something Kelly Clarkson would say. And I wonder, as someone who has this large, far-reaching platform, what does it mean to you to be an LGBT ally, and when did you know you had the power to be one?

I always laugh at the concept that people are like, “We just love what you say; that’s why we love you,” and I’m like, “Why is everyone not like that?” That’s what boggles my mind. Why would you not say what you want to say?

(In our last interview you) asked me if my daughter or son, or any of the four, ended up being gay, how would I take that, and I’d be like, “Awesome!” Honestly, in a world that is so hateful sometimes, I don’t care where my kids find love. Hopefully with a loving and respectful and kind person, but I don’t care if they’re a boy or a girl. It just doesn’t make a damn bit of difference to me.

I do want my children to fall in love with people who are loving, but I feel like our priorities are silly-ass backwards. Like, I want to go to my friends’ parents who just don’t want to talk about it. They know, but are like, “We just can’t talk about it,” which is so demeaning to their (children’s) existence. And I want to knock on their door – I don’t, because (my friends) ask me not to (laughs) – and be like, “Do you know you’re missing out on an exceptional human because you can’t get past your own ignorance? It’s just silly to me that you want to miss out.” I want to tell them, “I didn’t have a dad and it had nothing to do with me being gay – it had to do with, he was a shitty guy. And you have the opportunity now to not be that parent and embrace your child. That’s your DNA. You love your children. What’s wrong with you?” It just makes me so mad, more so than anything.

This past June, you helped two gay fans get engaged during one of your meet-and-greets.

Oh my gosh, it was exciting. But I was nervous! Like, what if he was gonna say no?! (Laughs)

How would you live that down?

Literally, before I was like, “Wait. I do not want to be put in this situation where this guy might say no. Are you sure he’s gonna say yes?” And he goes, “Well, I hope so!” He was nervous. I probably didn’t help any. (Laughs)

Do you hope gay couples just start routinely getting engaged in front of you?

I was like, “I need to get ordained!”

For the sake of gay couples everywhere, why are you not?

I don’t know if that would be authenticated! I don’t know if people would question that! One of our friends – my husband also manages Blake Shelton – was like, “I wanna marry y’all” and I was like, “I want it to be, like, credible. You don’t actually have a following, or a church!

I have a feeling people would go to the Church of KC. 

Oh, Lord, that would be a funny church.

So, as much as I love talking about music, it’s hard not to acknowledge the screwy state of the world during interviews these days.

Yeah, everything is obviously impacted by it.

How are you? I know you’ve always stood up for what you believe in, but in this politically divisive climate, do you feel an even greater responsibility to stand up for the things that are important to you?

The hard thing for me, specifically: I always hate when people bring up, “Oh, you’re a celebrity, you shouldn’t have an opinion.” The hard thing in that for me is, I’m not just that. I’m a mother, I’m a daughter, I’m a woman. And it took a long time and a lot of women to pioneer that way for me, to even have a voice. So, for me to not use that is so disrespectful to those before me who worked so hard for it. For me to not take advantage of that seems like a cruel irony.

Why would I not voice my opinion as a mother? Why can’t I say this is a really hard time to have a 10- and 16-year-old, guys? Because I don’t know what to tell them when they hear certain things on TV.  They’re smart enough to know what’s going on. I can’t hide them from that. So, it’s a very hard time to explain things away. It’s a very hard time to have the discussion about any kind of bigotry or racism or elitism. It’s a very hard time because a lot of things are happening that are making crazy, insane, irrational moments normal, and it’s a very hard time to raise kids in that environment. Forget me even being a celebrity. As a mother – just as a mother – it’s a very hard time.

I’m glad, at least, that everything is all coming to the forefront because it’s now pointing out – like, I had no idea we had white supremacists. I have never come across people like that. Not even as a child in a small town in the South, and even then, that town has blossomed and they’re more progressive now.

It’s 2017 – why are we still having these conversations? But we’re having them because they do exist, and it’s insane. It’s insane that somebody just doesn’t go, “Oh, I’m sorry, but yeah, we don’t want that here. You should go somewhere else. This is a country of many cultures, many faiths, and open-mindedness. That is why people came here.” It’s amazing to me that we just don’t have grown-ass men and women in the public eye of politics going, “Absolutely not. I’m not even having this conversation because that’s not even OK. There’s no way to validate what just happened.”

Reflecting on all your work for RCA: Which album are you most and least proud of?

The album I’m most proud of in that whole section is the Christmas album (2013’s Wrapped in Red), and that’s just because it was 100 percent me. It was Christmas and it was OK for me to make decisions (laughs). They let (producer) Greg (Kurstin) and I do whatever we wanted, so it was a lot easier to accomplish my goal with that album.

My least favorite? Man, I mean, maybe my least favorite was my first one (2003’s Thankful). I just say that because of the experience. I was very young and very excited about making a record. It was my first time doing all of that, and it was also my first time realizing, “This is gonna be really hard because there are so many cooks in the kitchen and they don’t care that you’re not allowed to be one.” It was my first experience in the industry going, “Oh, wait, this isn’t what I thought it was gonna be like.” So my ignorance led to that and me being young and excited, I guess. Not that I don’t love the album – it’s just that I didn’t love finding that out.

Do you ever get tired of singing your first single, 2002’s “A Moment Like This”?

I never sing it! Because the song wasn’t meant for me – it was meant for the winner. I never would’ve been like, “This is a great record” (laughs). I get the moment it was for. That was the perfect song for that moment. I totally address that, but that song doesn’t fit in my tour setlist.

It still takes me back every time I hear it.

Totally. The nostalgia. For me too. It was a beautiful moment. I’m very thankful and blessed for it. But it wasn’t a song that was meant for me. They just wrote it for whomever was gonna win, so that doesn’t make me feel special. (Laughs)

With Meaning of Life, your hair on the album cover is giving me some serious Mariah vibes.

That Drew Barrymore-to-the-side-’90s vibe, yeah – it’s completely calculated. (Laughs) I literally was like, “I want the hair for this album to be talking to God.” It fits with the record. It’s so sassy and confident and diva in the best sense, and so I really wanted that ’90s hair. All my inspiration photos were of ’90s hair. Whether it’s the artwork or the music, everything on this album is influenced by the ’90s, which was my favorite time in music.

From “Since U Been Gone” on through “People Like Us” and “I Have a Dream,” your anthems have been empowering to LGBT people. What song on this album do you hope becomes the next big gay anthem?

It’s always my gay boys who come up and go, “Oh my god, I love ‘Whole Lotta Woman.’” And it’s so funny, because I’m like, that is so ironic and amazing! (Laughs)

Based solely on the track’s name, not even the fact that it’s a celebratory anthem, you can’t possibly be that surprised.

(Laughs) Honestly, I didn’t think about it! But then we performed it impromptu at the “Today” show just for the audience there in New York – not for the televised show, just for the audience – and it was so funny because all the gay boys were dancing more than anyone, even more than the women! It was so fun. It’s such a fun audience that just loves sass and confidence, and I just love being surrounded by an audience with that kind of energy.

That song definitely shut downs, once and for all, your social-media shamers. What advice do you have for LGBT people who experience the bullying that you’ve experienced?

We have a 16-year-old girl and a grown-ass woman was being horrible to her. She was just being hateful and passive-aggressive online and I had to be real with (my daughter). I said, “This is gonna happen so often, so this would be a good time to learn to take the high road. Block them or whatever you want to do to not see it, if you don’t want to see it.”

Bullying is gonna happen, so we tell our kids, “That’s gonna happen. I can’t protect you from that. There’s nothing we can do about that. There are no bullying cops.” It’s an epidemic that’s horrible and it needs to be addressed, but at the same time, when you have kids coming to you, I just have to teach her to rise above it.

It’s one of those things I always describe to fans, too, in meet-and-greets because they always ask, “How are you so confident?” It’s because, at the end of the day, I really don’t care about anyone’s opinion but mine and the people I know who love me and really do want the best for me. You can’t base your entire existence and every decision off how people are gonna feel about it. That’s a giant check list; there’s a lot of us. (Laughs) So, just be happy with your decisions, and sometimes know you’re gonna be successful and sometimes you’re gonna fail. And whatever. At least you were steering your ship.

source https://hotspotsmagazine.com/2017/11/30/kelly-clarkson-talks-artistic-liberation-confronting-anti-lgbt-parents/ from Hot Spots Magazine http://hotspotsmagazin.blogspot.com/2017/11/kelly-clarkson-talks-artistic.html

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Brovaries: The True Danger Of The ‘Wonder Woman’ Movie

You know what I wonder about Wonder Woman ? When did the estrogenocide embark, and how come we got no advanced alarming? A pox! A pox on those cervixecutioners and their fallopian plan! My( male) God, save yourselves! Save your boys and your grandpas! Save the bizarre uncle who tells unwarranted floors. Save Dad’s collection of vintage Playboy s. The wives are starting! And not in the PornHub way! I insured Wonder Woman , a film about a superhero who is a woman( unlike a humanity ), and I am shook. I’d discovered the kerfuffle over the Alamo Drafthouse provide women-only screenings, and like many of you, I laughed it off. “Who cares? ” visualized I. “Just a few crazy dames putting on their lipstick and giving the foods soak while they run have their little hen party, watching a film about some kickass World War I soldiers and their gal buddy. Give ’em have their merriment before they come home. To whom? Daddy, that’s whom. Or who. Whichever is manlier.”

But let me tell you this, dear reader — and by “dear, ” I don’t aim “my dear, ” like a noblewoman, because men, right now I want you to stop speak this out loud to your little girl. Move have her fix us a neat glass of Scotch. You read this alone. Stop moving your cheeks so she doesn’t receive. Or move to a room she isn’t allowed in, like your tannery/ bodybuilding studio. Good. Now that we’re alone, I can warn you: Wonder Woman isn’t about kickass The first world war soldiers and their gal buddy. It’s about a kickass gal and her World War I cronies. The souls … they’re … secondary attributes!

At my screening, there was an actual woman garmented as Wonder Woman in the crowd. Whole groups of females sat together, unchaperoned and gobbling nutrient that seems to not even be low-fat, as though they weren’t concerned with retain their figures. There were cheers when Wonder Woman leapt into the combat and fought men. Penis-having souls! And she won! Pretty easily!

I get story. I understand the principles of imagination and whimsy. I get that maidens like to imagine themselves as a princess or a scullery girl. But those legends all have princes or prosperous tycoons who help a critical storytelling capacity: They give the woman know what to do and when she needs to do it. And those men too save the working day from the rogue so the status of women is also possible safe and then furnish her vulva to the man in a show of respect and appreciation. Do you know how often of that happened in Wonder Woman ? I reckon none. I can’t remember because I blacked out for a spell, and when I woke up I was sharing a coffee with a woman and listening to her opinion on something. And I discovered it interesting!

All the old-time staples of Wonder Woman are present in the film, but not one of them is even remotely justified. I can only usurp the editor was a terminated moron. Hopefully, the director’s piece excuses even a fraction of the otherwise-gaping patch faults. Like, how is there an island of merely women, yet it’s contained within statues and stone houses and there are numerous weapons? Who made all that trash? And Wonder Woman has a supernatural lasso that obligates parties to tell the truth, yet the first time we see it, the status of women is utilizing it. How? You can’t precisely guess at shit like this! C’mon, being!

So here’s the thing. When I was a kid, I was really into the Hulk. I had a Hulk Halloween costume and I wanted to be the Hulk. I guessed how great it would be to be so super strong and smash events. Now dream the little girls go to Wonder Woman , and having that same gumption of awe that I experienced about the Hulk. Imagine them choosing they want to be strong, independent heroes. Dream them wanting to take the lead and change “the worlds”. For the better! I represent … what?

Imagine those female-only Wonder Woman screenings. Dream a chamber full of maidens being awed by this super strong, super gallant reference — who has a uterus, I’m willing to bet — and them thinking that this sort of anti-man discrimination is OK. Perhaps they can see other movies without beings. Perhaps they are unable have women-only gyms and spas. Perhaps they’ll open up schools that merely daughters can accompany! Maybe they’ll have some kind of girl-only frats! And groups where daughters can read helpful abilities funded by the sale of luscious goddamn cookies! Is that the world you want to live in? Perhaps lesbians will be suspended having copulation with husbands! THEN WHAT ??

Listen, I affection the dames as much as any man who hopes to one day rain with a maid and run a nipple like the dial on an old-timey television receiver. I get it. But I likewise get that it’s superHEro , not superSHEro. They spell just the way it is for a reason. It’s because they’re followers. And they know what they’re doing.

Women are great at all kinds of things — they can scratch your cervix really well, and they’re super better at folding those fitted sheets. But aren’t guys the true heroes of “the worlds”? Without followers, would we have life-changing inventions like syringes, life rafts, the electrical refrigerator, computer software, algorithms, Kevlar, or residential solar power? I don’t know how to check, but I’m presupposing no.

I know a panic now. A fear that all the chicks and sugars and babes of “the worlds” are going to be all “Please stop announcing me those names.” But it’s deeper than that, and I’ll tell you why. I’ll say to you my dread secret: I fear I’m going to respect their bids. Because I, dear male reader, speculated Wonder Woman was pretty awesome. I find my own ovaries, ever so faintly, flutter during the action situations. I felt like it was just a good movie instead of a good lady movie.

So protest on, man-friends. Do it for the Gipper, if you for some reason know me as the Gipper. Because I am lost to you now. I have to trade in my testicles for a smaller, less robust duet that come with a parallel clutch. I liked Wonder Woman . I felt OK with the girl kinfolk going to see it. I’m a lost cause. But you don’t “ve got to be”. You can hold fast to your faith that maidens don’t deserve their own happenings, and that servicemen can, should, and need to be at the forefront of every aspect of a woman’s life. You can hold on to that belief.

Are you doing that? Are you supporting on?

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Brovaries: The True Danger Of The ‘Wonder Woman’ Movie

You know what I wonder about Wonder Woman ? When did the estrogenocide embark, and how come we got no advanced alarming? A pox! A pox on those cervixecutioners and their fallopian plan! My( male) God, save yourselves! Save your boys and your grandpas! Save the bizarre uncle who tells unwarranted floors. Save Dad’s collection of vintage Playboy s. The wives are starting! And not in the PornHub way! I insured Wonder Woman , a film about a superhero who is a woman( unlike a humanity ), and I am shook. I’d discovered the kerfuffle over the Alamo Drafthouse provide women-only screenings, and like many of you, I laughed it off. “Who cares? ” visualized I. “Just a few crazy dames putting on their lipstick and giving the foods soak while they run have their little hen party, watching a film about some kickass World War I soldiers and their gal buddy. Give ’em have their merriment before they come home. To whom? Daddy, that’s whom. Or who. Whichever is manlier.”

But let me tell you this, dear reader — and by “dear, ” I don’t aim “my dear, ” like a noblewoman, because men, right now I want you to stop speak this out loud to your little girl. Move have her fix us a neat glass of Scotch. You read this alone. Stop moving your cheeks so she doesn’t receive. Or move to a room she isn’t allowed in, like your tannery/ bodybuilding studio. Good. Now that we’re alone, I can warn you: Wonder Woman isn’t about kickass The first world war soldiers and their gal buddy. It’s about a kickass gal and her World War I cronies. The souls … they’re … secondary attributes!

At my screening, there was an actual woman garmented as Wonder Woman in the crowd. Whole groups of females sat together, unchaperoned and gobbling nutrient that seems to not even be low-fat, as though they weren’t concerned with retain their figures. There were cheers when Wonder Woman leapt into the combat and fought men. Penis-having souls! And she won! Pretty easily!

I get story. I understand the principles of imagination and whimsy. I get that maidens like to imagine themselves as a princess or a scullery girl. But those legends all have princes or prosperous tycoons who help a critical storytelling capacity: They give the woman know what to do and when she needs to do it. And those men too save the working day from the rogue so the status of women is also possible safe and then furnish her vulva to the man in a show of respect and appreciation. Do you know how often of that happened in Wonder Woman ? I reckon none. I can’t remember because I blacked out for a spell, and when I woke up I was sharing a coffee with a woman and listening to her opinion on something. And I discovered it interesting!

All the old-time staples of Wonder Woman are present in the film, but not one of them is even remotely justified. I can only usurp the editor was a terminated moron. Hopefully, the director’s piece excuses even a fraction of the otherwise-gaping patch faults. Like, how is there an island of merely women, yet it’s contained within statues and stone houses and there are numerous weapons? Who made all that trash? And Wonder Woman has a supernatural lasso that obligates parties to tell the truth, yet the first time we see it, the status of women is utilizing it. How? You can’t precisely guess at shit like this! C’mon, being!

So here’s the thing. When I was a kid, I was really into the Hulk. I had a Hulk Halloween costume and I wanted to be the Hulk. I guessed how great it would be to be so super strong and smash events. Now dream the little girls go to Wonder Woman , and having that same gumption of awe that I experienced about the Hulk. Imagine them choosing they want to be strong, independent heroes. Dream them wanting to take the lead and change “the worlds”. For the better! I represent … what?

Imagine those female-only Wonder Woman screenings. Dream a chamber full of maidens being awed by this super strong, super gallant reference — who has a uterus, I’m willing to bet — and them thinking that this sort of anti-man discrimination is OK. Perhaps they can see other movies without beings. Perhaps they are unable have women-only gyms and spas. Perhaps they’ll open up schools that merely daughters can accompany! Maybe they’ll have some kind of girl-only frats! And groups where daughters can read helpful abilities funded by the sale of luscious goddamn cookies! Is that the world you want to live in? Perhaps lesbians will be suspended having copulation with husbands! THEN WHAT ??

Listen, I affection the dames as much as any man who hopes to one day rain with a maid and run a nipple like the dial on an old-timey television receiver. I get it. But I likewise get that it’s superHEro , not superSHEro. They spell just the way it is for a reason. It’s because they’re followers. And they know what they’re doing.

Women are great at all kinds of things — they can scratch your cervix really well, and they’re super better at folding those fitted sheets. But aren’t guys the true heroes of “the worlds”? Without followers, would we have life-changing inventions like syringes, life rafts, the electrical refrigerator, computer software, algorithms, Kevlar, or residential solar power? I don’t know how to check, but I’m presupposing no.

I know a panic now. A fear that all the chicks and sugars and babes of “the worlds” are going to be all “Please stop announcing me those names.” But it’s deeper than that, and I’ll tell you why. I’ll say to you my dread secret: I fear I’m going to respect their bids. Because I, dear male reader, speculated Wonder Woman was pretty awesome. I find my own ovaries, ever so faintly, flutter during the action situations. I felt like it was just a good movie instead of a good lady movie.

So protest on, man-friends. Do it for the Gipper, if you for some reason know me as the Gipper. Because I am lost to you now. I have to trade in my testicles for a smaller, less robust duet that come with a parallel clutch. I liked Wonder Woman . I felt OK with the girl kinfolk going to see it. I’m a lost cause. But you don’t “ve got to be”. You can hold fast to your faith that maidens don’t deserve their own happenings, and that servicemen can, should, and need to be at the forefront of every aspect of a woman’s life. You can hold on to that belief.

Are you doing that? Are you supporting on?

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[apsbicepstraining]

Brovaries: The True Danger Of The ‘Wonder Woman’ Movie

You know what I wonder about Wonder Woman ? When did the estrogenocide embark, and how come we got no advanced alarming? A pox! A pox on those cervixecutioners and their fallopian plan! My( male) God, save yourselves! Save your boys and your grandpas! Save the bizarre uncle who tells unwarranted floors. Save Dad’s collection of vintage Playboy s. The wives are starting! And not in the PornHub way! I insured Wonder Woman , a film about a superhero who is a woman( unlike a humanity ), and I am shook. I’d discovered the kerfuffle over the Alamo Drafthouse provide women-only screenings, and like many of you, I laughed it off. “Who cares? ” visualized I. “Just a few crazy dames putting on their lipstick and giving the foods soak while they run have their little hen party, watching a film about some kickass World War I soldiers and their gal buddy. Give ’em have their merriment before they come home. To whom? Daddy, that’s whom. Or who. Whichever is manlier.”

But let me tell you this, dear reader — and by “dear, ” I don’t aim “my dear, ” like a noblewoman, because men, right now I want you to stop speak this out loud to your little girl. Move have her fix us a neat glass of Scotch. You read this alone. Stop moving your cheeks so she doesn’t receive. Or move to a room she isn’t allowed in, like your tannery/ bodybuilding studio. Good. Now that we’re alone, I can warn you: Wonder Woman isn’t about kickass The first world war soldiers and their gal buddy. It’s about a kickass gal and her World War I cronies. The souls … they’re … secondary attributes!

At my screening, there was an actual woman garmented as Wonder Woman in the crowd. Whole groups of females sat together, unchaperoned and gobbling nutrient that seems to not even be low-fat, as though they weren’t concerned with retain their figures. There were cheers when Wonder Woman leapt into the combat and fought men. Penis-having souls! And she won! Pretty easily!

I get story. I understand the principles of imagination and whimsy. I get that maidens like to imagine themselves as a princess or a scullery girl. But those legends all have princes or prosperous tycoons who help a critical storytelling capacity: They give the woman know what to do and when she needs to do it. And those men too save the working day from the rogue so the status of women is also possible safe and then furnish her vulva to the man in a show of respect and appreciation. Do you know how often of that happened in Wonder Woman ? I reckon none. I can’t remember because I blacked out for a spell, and when I woke up I was sharing a coffee with a woman and listening to her opinion on something. And I discovered it interesting!

All the old-time staples of Wonder Woman are present in the film, but not one of them is even remotely justified. I can only usurp the editor was a terminated moron. Hopefully, the director’s piece excuses even a fraction of the otherwise-gaping patch faults. Like, how is there an island of merely women, yet it’s contained within statues and stone houses and there are numerous weapons? Who made all that trash? And Wonder Woman has a supernatural lasso that obligates parties to tell the truth, yet the first time we see it, the status of women is utilizing it. How? You can’t precisely guess at shit like this! C’mon, being!

So here’s the thing. When I was a kid, I was really into the Hulk. I had a Hulk Halloween costume and I wanted to be the Hulk. I guessed how great it would be to be so super strong and smash events. Now dream the little girls go to Wonder Woman , and having that same gumption of awe that I experienced about the Hulk. Imagine them choosing they want to be strong, independent heroes. Dream them wanting to take the lead and change “the worlds”. For the better! I represent … what?

Imagine those female-only Wonder Woman screenings. Dream a chamber full of maidens being awed by this super strong, super gallant reference — who has a uterus, I’m willing to bet — and them thinking that this sort of anti-man discrimination is OK. Perhaps they can see other movies without beings. Perhaps they are unable have women-only gyms and spas. Perhaps they’ll open up schools that merely daughters can accompany! Maybe they’ll have some kind of girl-only frats! And groups where daughters can read helpful abilities funded by the sale of luscious goddamn cookies! Is that the world you want to live in? Perhaps lesbians will be suspended having copulation with husbands! THEN WHAT ??

Listen, I affection the dames as much as any man who hopes to one day rain with a maid and run a nipple like the dial on an old-timey television receiver. I get it. But I likewise get that it’s superHEro , not superSHEro. They spell just the way it is for a reason. It’s because they’re followers. And they know what they’re doing.

Women are great at all kinds of things — they can scratch your cervix really well, and they’re super better at folding those fitted sheets. But aren’t guys the true heroes of “the worlds”? Without followers, would we have life-changing inventions like syringes, life rafts, the electrical refrigerator, computer software, algorithms, Kevlar, or residential solar power? I don’t know how to check, but I’m presupposing no.

I know a panic now. A fear that all the chicks and sugars and babes of “the worlds” are going to be all “Please stop announcing me those names.” But it’s deeper than that, and I’ll tell you why. I’ll say to you my dread secret: I fear I’m going to respect their bids. Because I, dear male reader, speculated Wonder Woman was pretty awesome. I find my own ovaries, ever so faintly, flutter during the action situations. I felt like it was just a good movie instead of a good lady movie.

So protest on, man-friends. Do it for the Gipper, if you for some reason know me as the Gipper. Because I am lost to you now. I have to trade in my testicles for a smaller, less robust duet that come with a parallel clutch. I liked Wonder Woman . I felt OK with the girl kinfolk going to see it. I’m a lost cause. But you don’t “ve got to be”. You can hold fast to your faith that maidens don’t deserve their own happenings, and that servicemen can, should, and need to be at the forefront of every aspect of a woman’s life. You can hold on to that belief.

Are you doing that? Are you supporting on?

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