#christian hawkins

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The Rise by Sybarite from the mini-album Loose Hold

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It's The Kitten!

my sweet kitten🥺

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When someone tells me to pick a favourite book or character

Ummm? Like genre? Series? FMC? MMC? Side character? Couple? I NEED MORE INFO

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The Last Voyage of the Demeter (André Øvredal, 2023).

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The Walking Dead (2010-2022) tv series

-(started) watchin' Season 6- 10/3/2024- on Netflix (AMC)

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Awareness post

Just for y'alls information, it seems like @kittenchrissy might be shadowbanned - luckily I got into contact with her and she reached out to tumblr support but if you could go and give her and her OC Christian some live in the meantime until this is hopefully cleared up, that would be grand 🧡

And here's again what you can do if that happens

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"Get to Know You Better Meme"

I got this from @runicmagitek, thank you for that.

Last song. "I Need Nothing Else" by Sophie B Hawkins. I used to listen to her Whaler album back in the 2000s, then forgot about it for years. She has a fun, headlong, early 90s style that's extremely catchy.

Favorite color. I really like deep jewel tones, teals and wine-reds, also burnt orange. There's this really great magenta-touched purple that I use in some of my art that never scans correctly. We'll go with burnt orange today.

Currently watching. The Nanny, just started season 3. I've never seen it before, but I was lured in by the clothes.

Sweet/savory/spicy. Yes to sweet and savory, no to any but the most mild spices. I have wimpy taste buds, but I'm trying to build them up some. When I crave something, it's usually sweet, though often with savory undertones -- like a banana bread or Tollhouse pie with lots of walnuts in it.

Relationship status.

Current obsession. I'm focusing hard on the Next Book right now. I'm between edits, which has me antsy because I feel like I'm being "lazy". But the truth is, I have to take these breaks or I lose perspective on what I'm doing. But this month I'm going to be working on things like the cover and blurb and just going over how I want to talk about the book and present it to people. The process has its stressful moments, but I also really love the book, so it has its own kind of pleasure, thinking about it, preparing for it.

Last thing you googled. "greek epiousion". I just saw a post talking about how the Greek word epiousion only appears in the Lord's Prayer and its definition is a bit mysterious. It's the word we translate as "daily", as in "daily bread", but it's not the word the Greeks typically used for "daily", and the definition may actually be closer to "superessential". I think it's fascinating, and a little eerie, that things can feel so omnipresent and taken for granted, even when we have these gaps in our knowledge. What prayer, at least Christian prayer, is more omnipresent than the Lord's Prayer? And yet here it is, this strange, only semi-known thing right in the middle of it.

Also, all these centuries, we could have been bandying around a word like superessential like it's nothing, why can't we have that?

No tagging, but please do this if you're so inclined!

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Rookie-Critic's Top 25 Films of 2022: Honorable Mentions - The Phantom of the Open (dir. Craig Roberts)

This was unbelievably charming. Mark Rylance has a softness to him that he seems to able to play in any way he wants you to believe, and he sells it here with a character that it's almost impossible not to love. A golf movie that's not really about golf at all, but about how much heart and determination you put into doing what you want to do. That even if you're not very good (horrible, even) at what you love, as long as you put your whole self into and have fun, it doesn't really matter how good you are. There's also a commentary about the elitism of the golf industry thrown in there for good measure, so that's good as well. I was a particular fan of these dream sequences sprinkled throughout the film that are presented like a film from the 60s or 70s that, while stylistically inconsistent with a lot of the rest of the film, match up very well thematically and bring an even further sense of wonder to the story. This one is just a light-hearted, good time, that took me completely by surprise.

Currently available to rent or purchase on digital (iTunes, Amazon, Vudu, etc.) and on DVD & Blu-ray through Sony Pictures Classics. Read my full review of The Phantom of the Open here.

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Aesthetic is in fire, God is dead, random gifs for finish

end of spam, i mean part 10/10

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Europe Jazz Media Chart - Maj 2024

Wybór nowości muzycznych, które pojawiły się w bieżącym miesiącu, dokonany przez grupę czołowych europejskich magazynów i witryn jazzowych. A selection of the hot new music surfacing across the continent this month by the top European jazz magazines and websites. Tomasz Dabrowski And The Individual Beings  Better (April Records) Krzysztof Komorek, Donos kulturalny, Polska Olivier Le Goas…

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Foggy Notion by Sybarite from the mini-album Loose Hold

[kittenchrissy]

💜

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 What Holds YOU Back?

Last month my children invited me to attend their Perspective Leadership Summit at Allasso Ranch in Hawkins, Texas. I was stoked. The summit isn’t for the faint hearted because ropes, zip line and other courses are a part of it. And it isn’t for the faint hearted when Staci calls different ones to come to the stage, give them one minute to review a topic and then give a 3-minute talk on that…

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Asexual theory 101

Right I keep getting asked on most of my asexual posts 'What does this mean OP? Where's the sources?' so imma make a quick ace theory 101 post so if anyone says they don't get it I can say I tried. Let's go:

'What does being ace have to do with race/racism?/There's racism in the ace community???'

Pretty much everything as people of colour experience various forms of sexualisation and desexualisation at the same time, which is why POC are rarely included in asexual representation:

Asexuals of Color Still Seek to Validate Their Asexuality by Ebony Purks

Stereotypes & media about Black masculinity made it harder to come out as asexual by Tyger Songbird

Your Assumptions About Black Queer Masculinity Are Erasing My Asexual Identity by Timinepre Cole

It's Time To Start Celebrating Black Asexuality in Media By Tyger Songbird

Yasmin Benoit: ‘People had a hard time believing that I could be Black and asexual and at Pride’ by Alastair James

Brown and Gray: An Asexual People of Color Zine

'What do TERFS/transphobia have to do with asexuality?'

There's a growing TERF conspiracy theory that asexuality is the side-effect of transitioning. The LGB movement believes the community is exclusively for 'same-sex attracted persons' and so identities that don't involve attraction e.g. the TQIA should be removed. Most backlash towards Yasmin Benoit, aroace activist, is from white TERFs and conservatives:

Acephobic conspiracy theories have transphobic and fascist roots by Sherronda J Brown

'But how can conservatives hate asexuality if they hate sex?'

Because they don't and never did. If the term 'puritan' was used correctly in modern internet discourse, it would be known Christian puritans believe heterosexual sex for reproduction is a gift from god and mandatory so being asexual doesn't exactly fit with that worldview. Their beef is with any form of sex and sexuality that falls outside of cis heterosexual marriage, including asexuality. They're not anti sex but anti sexual autonomy:

"Anti-Sex" and the Real Sexual Politics of the Right by Lee Cicuta (ButchAnarchy)

The religious right is now targeting sexless marriages as “selfishness.” They Want to Ban Those Too by Tyger Songbird

Asexual people targetted by right-wing pundits following landmark report by Harriet Brewis

'What does being ace have to do with gender?'

It's commonly assumed that because patriarchy shames women's sexualities and considers all men's sexuality as biological and unavoidable, that ace women only and exclusively experience dsexualisation whilst ace men only and exclusively are pressured into being sexual beings. This can true as a broad overview but it can vary based on race, disability, class etc. This also becomes complex for asexuals that exist outside the gender binary. This is known as 'gender detachment'.

Impossible for Men, Unremarkable for Women by Canton Winer

My Work on Gender Detachment and Asexuality Strikes a Nerve by Canton Winer

'There's asexual studies now?'

Yup. On the general experiences of asexual people in the UK, including discrimination in education, the workplace and healthcare:

The National LGBT Survey (2018)

Ace in the UK Report (2023)

Specific names:

Asexual theorists: Ianna Hawkins, Michael Paramo, Julia Sondra Decker, Canton Winer (non-ace), Sherronda J Brown, Angela Chen

Asexual activists: Yasmin Benoit, Tyger Songbird, Marshall Blount (TheGentleAce), Kimberly Butler (TheAsexualGoddess)

And I'm gonna update this with more if they're worth adding. I don't wanna hear any excuses anymore or blame towards aces of colour, gay aces or trans aces for not being specific enough anymore. Read!