#camp camp jenny

[trollinstinct]

Kim Whalen? more likely than you think

[that-butch-archivist]

"Tess was a performance artist and part-time jewelry maker who now worked as a set designer. [...] The first night we spent together, I taught her to knit — my classic seduction technique (High Femme Camp Antics, or HFCA) — and about frisson, that carbonated feeling that accompanies a crush. We stared at each other for a long time, unblinking. Because I knew that this otherwise might take forever (lesbians!), I finally asked Tess point-blank if she felt a frisson for me (HFCA). In response, Tess kissed me hard, with teeth. I knew she wanted to fuck, but I pushed her hands away dramatically when they crept under my skirt (HFCA). I told her that I didn’t typically sleep with people so soon (HFCA), which was true not for any real reason but because I was privately humiliated by my body (HFCA). Instead of letting her fuck me, I scratched Tess’s entire torso with my long, pink fingernails (HFCA). “Her fingernails drifted down my neck, across my shoulders,” Jess Goldberg, the butch narrator of Stone Butch Blues, says of a high femme whose camp antics thrill her. “I’d forgotten the sheer pleasure of a high femme tease.” “Your fingernails are full of frisson,” Tess said as morning light began to stream in through the window above her bed. “I know,” I said. I recently read a collection of funny stories by Lesléa Newman, high-femme chronicler of dyke life in the 1990s (the materialistic, shopping-addicted Golden Age of HFCA). In one story, a butch named Flash arrives to pick Lesléa up and take her out to dinner. Flash politely tells Lesléa that she looks nice. “The average femme would have taken that to be a compliment,” Lesléa dishes. “But this high-maintenance femme hadn’t spent the last two weeks shopping for the perfect outfit and the last seven hours bathing, shaving, bleaching, filing, polishing, combing, brushing, drying, moussing, spritzing, spraying, and applying five pounds of makeup to have all her efforts summed up in one little four-letter word.” Flash’s flimsy compliment doesn’t satisfy Lesléa’s desires to be seen, appreciated, and worshiped, and so Lesléa starts from the bottom and works her way up, prompting Flash to compliment her shoes, her miniskirt, and finally her hair in a grand, shimmering pyramid of HFCA. But even as she performs satiation, Lesléa is insatiable. Her antics fail at getting her precisely what she wants from Flash, because there’s always something unsatisfying about getting what you want by asking for it. Lesléa’s desire glows from within the frame of her HFCA, distilled and exposed and unmet. Can I Come Inside, my high-femme sex game, deals primarily with unmet, outsourced, and circumnavigated desire. In Females (2019), trans lesbian critic Andrea Long Chu argues that femaleness is a universal, existential condition rather than a gender or a sex — a condition of being and of consciousness that involves letting others do our desiring for us. At stake in Can I Come Inside, as well as in HFCA at large, is a femaleness that both craves and rebels against its tendency to outsource desire. In playing Can I Come Inside, I, like Lesléa, ask Tess to do my desiring for me, and Tess in turn defers her desire to me: the game is strictly my desire, one that she insists she does not share. Even though it mandates a performance of aggressive desire from Tess, there’s no doubt that Can I Come Inside is about my desire; it’s my game; I make the rules."

-- An excerpt from "High Femme Camp Antics," an essay written by Jenny Fran Davis. (Emphasis in bold my own.)

[yournumberonefan1]

Pov: You're my new favorite character that I can't stop looking at.

There's more, but these are the ones I can slightly draw.

Meet the new guys.

[cheeseballsack]

“do you think we’re together in every universe?”

the different universes:

⋆.˚𖦹⋆✮⋆.˚

[melodiousoblivionao3]

the Spain WNT coach testifying on behalf of the abusers and RFEF less than a week before she coaches the team in the February window is so unbelievably sick I hope they all *** expeditiously

(I'm following the trial through @didalexiabreakupwitholgaisback and would highly recommend you do too)

[gello-strands]

OC STUFF!!

I'll be tagging these fellers as marzipanels! Also if I accidentally named any of these characters after a slur PLEASE TELL ME I assure you it was not intentional

(REBLOGS>LIKES!)

[brainchain]

[onabatlle-2]

🇪🇸, via sefutbolfem’s ig, 24/10/23

[magentagalaxies]

clearly i've been watching too much jenny nicholson bc as soon as i used the phrase "numbered list" i immediately read it in her voice and imagined 1960s susan sontag delivering her essay "notes on camp" in the same tone as jenny nicholson describing the plot of beastly

[cptrs]

[natjennie]

first lae'zel tries to kill me then some crazy hot dream lady tells me I'm supposed to save all of faerun by listening to the squid in my brain. guys. I'm only level three.

[millybrowm]

apparently i need to learn more about Jenny Fran Davis because i just finished Dykette (honestly loved it, thought it was absolutely insane) and assumed it was a satirization of some of the worst aspects of Queer culture, but now im learning that she might actually believe in a lot of stuff she wrote about in that book and stands by the main character’s actions? like, the main character is so frustrating (full of misogyny, judgmental, extremely jealous, let’s her anxiety control her) and treats her partner so, so terribly, but i thought that was the point???

[100frogsinatrenchcoat]

The girlypops <3

[yournumberonefan1]

My favorites attend Nagito's funeral.

Alternate title: Nightmare Sans becomes a funeral director and directs Komaeda's. It does not go well.

I thought this would be funny.

Audio: Ailaughatmyownjokes/It's me Silvia

[little-water-bears]

my roommate finally got me to watch this lovely little movie ❤️🐞🐚👟

[electricxmayhem]

Muppet Diary 01.06.24: Bimbo-in’ Ain’t Easy