#sister wives sex strike

[sexiechuckiet]

Hey everybody it’s Folk Punk Fall!! That’s right, I’m listening to men who can barely sing do it over an acoustic guitar for the vibes!!

[amandaanddonnie]

SISTER WIVES - Robyn Brown called out over previous episode - Only Conce...

[mechpilotvi]

What am I not getting invited to "queer and trans events" cuz I'm fat , cuz I'm ngl a trans event sounds rad

as someone who goes to a lot of queer and especially trans events, something i can't help but notice is that i'm very often the only fat transfem present, and moreover, fat transfems of color are virtually never present at all. the absence is extremely conspicuous.

i know there are a lot of social forces stacked up against these labels and particularly at their intersections, but shit, it feels lonely to know so few other fat trans women irl right now.

[eeriesearworms]

Daffodil - Sister Wife Sex Strike

"Daffodil has a dick and it's bigger than you"

What a great way to start a song.

[jeannereames]

I was wondering if it’s possible that many romantic/friendly relationships with women (whether involving Philip or Alexander) were not recorded in our sources because they were not politically significant. Could it be that both had such relationships that we are simply unaware of? The erasure of women in history is a recurring issue, and I wonder if this is why we tend to think that women were completely excluded from the social life of the time, and that relationships between male companions were considered more worthy of mention by earlier sources. Sorry for the long question!

Women in the Life of Philip and Alexander (and other ancient Greek men)

This is an excellent question, and one that shows good attention to how our ancient sources work. The short answer to your question is, “Absolutely,” and “Almost certainly.” Several scholars of women’s (Greek) history have noted that women traditionally would have operated at home (their sphere) and thus, out of the public eye. But we’d all be fools if we didn’t assume mothers and wives and sisters and even daughters didn’t have an impact on men.

However patriarchal a society, and however terrible the oppression of the women in it, the simple truth (imo) is that more men are decent human beings than not. It’s just that the ones who aren’t suck all the air out of the room. That’s hardly to say systemic oppression is “okay” because some men, maybe even the majority of them, don’t beat their wives even when they’re legally allowed to. Yet I think it’s still an important point to make, because it allows women in history to get out from under the “victim” label.*

One of the points I make in my history classes is that there’s a huge difference between women’s legal rights and female AGENCY. So, deeply patriarchal societies such as ancient Athens and Macedon can produce an Aspasia and an Olympias. Or Han China can produce a Lü Zhi. But for each one of them who land in our history books (even if villainized by the male historians), a hundred more quietly manage their families from the shadows. (Below: funeral stele of Theano, c. 400 BCE; while reading multi-figured grave stele is not an exact science, she's probably the deceased figure, and her husband (Ktesilaos) made it for her, although it could possibly be for them both.)

So, the longer answer is that the presence of such women in the lives of public men depends (as always) on context. E.g., what venues allowed women to be present (to influence men), and which did not. Ergo, we must ask where the women are, and are allowed to be, in order to get a grasp of which women would be doing the influencing. In Greek (and Macedonian) politics “at home,” women are everywhere, albeit they may not be permitted to speak in PUBLIC spaces. Or at least, their public-facing actions are limited, usually to acts of eurgetism, which in turn is limited to elite women (with money). (Eurgetism = public donations.) But these women may have a great deal of influence at home.

Aristophanes’s play, Lysistrata, gets at this in a humorous way. The women go on a sex strike until their husbands agree to end the (Peloponnesian) war. It doesn’t work because the women wind up wanting sex just as much as the men, so they can’t keep their own resolve. It’s funny in an upside-down way not only for the raunchy subject matter, but because Aristophanes does give women a lot more agency—and foibles—than they’re often allowed in literature. The very fact the women have trouble sticking to their decisions echoes their husband’s inability to get out of a war that’s destroying them. Even though Aristophanes was conservative politically (we think), it’s a surprisingly sympathetic (to women) play. And it makes me suspect that he had a strong woman at home. He did have three sons (all later Middle Comedy authors although none in their dad’s class), so he obviously had a wife.

Women had their own means of influencing events around them, which weren’t always visible. Yet their capacity for influence depended on the willingness of their men to listen.

In venues more purely male space, such as warfare, the presence, and influence, of women would have been curtailed. Yes, there were certainly women in a military camp, but many fewer, and they were mostly in low positions: slaves and prostitutes, not wives and mothers and sisters. Men who might respect their mothers were conditioned not to respect or listen to slaves, even if they didn’t abuse them—and assuming they could even understand them. Most would have been prisoners of war who didn’t necessarily speak the language of their captors.

Furthermore, the brutality of war leads to bifurcation in mental space, and Greek men were already conditioned even at home, never mind on campaign, to assign women to one of two categories: protected/“our”/family women, and unprotected/slave/prostitute women. Just as we, as a species, tend to create “pet” animals and “food” animals, and are unwilling to eat animals we regard as pets, may even spend thousands of dollars on their care and cry bitterly at their loss. War only exaggerated a pre-existing tendency.

Ergo, it’s not that ancient Greek and Macedonian men couldn’t regard women as romantic partners and even friends, but whether female candidates for that position were available where they are. Particularly if where they are is on campaign.

Beth Carney has a chapter on women in warfare in the new Brill's Companion to the Campaigns of Philip II and Alexander the Great, if you can lay hands on it. :-)

On that note, I’ll say watch what I do going forward in Dancing with the Lion, and how I handle figures such as Kampaspe, Kleopatra, Barsine, and Sisygambus (et al.). Or for that matter, how especially Kampaspe and Kleopatra function in Dancing, particularly with regard to Hephaistion.

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* And some women can be just as cruel. When we assume all women are innocent victims, we also fail to recognize female agency, which can include cruelty. We must act for fairness because it’s fair, not because of pity, or because the ones oppressed “deserve” salvation.

[frankbichito]

theyre sisters and theyre wives on theyre on a sex strike

[wench-in-a-trench]

Okay! This is going to be a theory! And just an idea! Don't read too much into it, i love pulling out concepts about everything!

Lucifer and Lilith had a child together, Charlie, we all know that fact, but what if Lucifer and Eve also had a Child?

I mean, he did talk mad burns about having bedded both of Adam's wives during their fight, right?

"well, your first wife didn't seem to hate what i had to offer, or the second. Bow chica bow bow." -Lucifer, the big boss of hell himself.

So what if the two of them had sex and the child resulting from that was. . . Emily?

The only similarities in appearance i can point out would be their innocent, bubbly and cute look: round eyes and lashes, big eyes, round face. The way they're drawn brings this puppy-like aura to their presence.

Their personalities are close-goaled copies of each other too.

1. Both are underestimated by their respective authority figures.

- Sera refrains from providing important information to her, because she sees Emily as incapable of making the right decision. Possibly because she's the youngest and is perceived as mentally immature and in need of sheltering from real world problems.

"i'm not a child to protect!" -Emily, a line from "you didn't know?"

- Lucifer sees Charlie's dream as a phase, because he sees his past self in her eyes and sees innocent naivety, instead of dutiful determination to make things better as a rightful heir to the throne.

"you make something nice, you invite people over and then they bring trouble to your doorstep!" -Lucifer

2. Two out of two of them have opinions that contradict the public opinion and the general order of things.

- Charlie doesn't accept the fate they have been given and wants to change the order things are going in.

- Emily doesn't try to turn a blind eye to the situation to continue her life in feigned ignorance like some angels seem to do, she's the first to speak up about the issue aside from Charlie.

3. The two of them share the same code of morals. They immediately duet with each other without having any previous talk about their views. Sure that may (read: definitely) be a result of Viv's rushed pacing of the show, but it plays right into my argument so i'm keeping it in.

Aren't Sera and Emily sisters, though? Yes, but the plot revolves around the ideas and more or less the systems seen in catholic religion; so their sisterhood could be following the same concept as a nun's, which doesn't include blood relations as a requirement to call the other nun a sister.

Sure, they do look very alike, the color palette being differentiated by Emily's purple and Sera's grey.

They have angelic forms similar to birds, same face markings, same dress and eyes that decorate them, they have skin colours that look close to each other (with Emily having more washed out colour.)

However that's what it looks like only at first glance.

- The clothes can be a "work" outfit that could be traditional for seraphs. But judging from their relationship dynamic it could also be Emily trying to subconsciously copy the look of her eldest sister, because she respects her as more of a parental authority.

- Their angelic body structures are widely different, the most striking thing being their wing placement being with Emily having them spread out from her head, taking the place of hair.

- Although both have three eyes on their foreheads, Sera doesn't have an eye in the middle of her chest like Emily does, even though that's a very noticeable characteristic that easily could be used to tie them both together.

- Emily's skin palate changes from pure white to greyish brown, while Sera's brown skin deepens in intensity in her humanoid form.

- both have face markings but Emily doesn't directly copy it. My girl doesn't even have a nose. Kinda like Lucifer.

Lucifer and Emily don't look like they share the same genetics, but we never saw Lucifer's fallen angel form or prior-to-being-thrown-out angel form and since we don't know what Eve looks like, Emily could share similarities with her (other than both their names starting with an "E" (°-°;) ) but we wouldn't know it outright!

Most shows depicting family members are notorious for designing them similarly. Making Charlie and Emily look different but seem similar enough in different ways would be a real iconic plot twist on Viv's part, but as seen in Helluva boss, unless it was a set up, it would look like the show follows the exact same pattern.

Side note: Lilith and Lucifer split, could Eve be the reason they did and why Lilith set off to be in a part of heaven? (Maybe the beach she's on being located in Eden?)

"and if you want to stay here, you are going down there and stopping that bitch." -Lute

[hermitcraft-8]

ok so as you may know im currently on a road trip with three friends. those friends consist of zelda (the meanest and yet most anxious lesbian you've ever met; listens to the homeless gospel choir and sister wives sex strike and also jazz), fennel (i don't know what their deal is. they tried to stab me once. looks like someone's grandma), and grapes (properly cottagecore mom friend, put the entire discography of the crane wives on the road trip playlist) and then they've got me, the cishet white man. who looks like he eats cigarettes off the curb. college friend groups are something else man

[warmbloodedzines]

Here's another zine by Xalli—this one's called Folk Punk Inauguration.

[Image Description: The cover page of this eight-page mini zine has a little cut out bat drawing from the Trader Joe's newsletters in the top/middle right area and an entry band for a show at a venue called The Smell along the bottom of it. To the left of the bat are the words 'FOLK PUNK' and between that and the entry band is the word 'INAUGURATION'. Thus, the name of this zine: Folk Punk Inauguration.

The first page has half of a hot pink entry band for The Smell on it. Above it, the page reads “I've gotta say, I've been skeptical of folk punk for a while, now. I feel pretty strongly that the culture of folk punk now is what traditional punk wished it was, but I was never too sure of the music. It felt a little too weird, and I'm a bit of a snob about voices sometimes (not on purpose, I promise) so I was just unsure. It’s been growing on me slowly, though – especially after a show this Tuesday.”

The second page starts “To be honest, the night started out sort of shit. I took the train and got harassed, and got there almost half an hour late, too. The energy inside changed everything right away, though. The crowd threw a billionaire skull piñata around and beat it up for toys, and everyone looked trans as fuck, and I knew I was in a good place. Moon Bandits, Rent Strike, and (of course) Sister Wife Sex Strike all played and fucked it up!” Below that, there's the text “(I can totally draw)” and, below that, an incredibly rudimentary stick figure drawing of a crowd of people looking up at two people on stage.

Page three starts with the phrase “Some HIGHLIGHTS”-- the 'Some' made out of two cut up words ('So' and 'me') from some book and 'HIGHLIGHTS' written in black Sharpie and highlighted with yellow highlighter. Below it is a bullet point list, which is also continue onto page four, that lists that “the pit was so fucking cool! great energy... so much joy and lots of two-stepping”, “the outfits... holy shit, do people know how to dress! so cool + creative”, “the aforementioned piñata - so silly + fun”, “when SWSS come down into the pit for ‘Electricity’”, “when the pit turned into a lot of people (including me) dancing with our partners during ‘Gentleness’”, “Rent Strike's song about hydraulic press videos”, and “the way the bands talked to us: so friendly & funny & felt like family (will come back to this one). Across the bottom of both pages is a sticker for Unity Skate Co. of two naked people, one colored in orange on the other's shoulders (and the other is colored in pink). Underneath the sticker across the right side of page four is a strip of Washi tape in dark blue, red, and black colors, with eyes and lips.

Page five has the word 'MERCH' written across the top left side of it with a squiggly line drawn underneath it. Next to it, starting on the right side of page five and going all through the top of page six is an orange sticker with the word 'QUEERS' in a black bold font with underlining. Page five starts out saying “A lot of the merch was sliding scale, and the vendors were so cool! I had to get stuff!” and then leads into a list of things I bought, including “Sister Wives Strike Back (Deluxe) CD”, “Rent Strike fox (?) on fire shirt”, “Moon Bandits ‘Squash Cops’ patch”, “Moon Bandits ‘Crocs not Cops’ sticker”, and “Moon Bandits 'Protect Trans Kids' Raccoon-filled sticker”. Under the 'QUEERS' sticker, page six simply states “Anyway, the show was amazing if you can’t tell. But there’s something more there, too. Getting to mosh + sing + scream and be happy + sad with other trans people – other nonwhite people too, oh my God – was so new + beautiful. It felt like family + home in such an unmistakable + necessary way. I’m so grateful.”

The back cover has a sharpie drawing in the top left of a weird fidget toy I got from the billionaire skull piñata that got thrown around during Moon Bandits' set, which is sort of a little orange handle and two (yellow and pink) weird extensions that are made of a ball and plastic legs that attach to the handle. The little extensions swing 360 degrees around the handle and can hit each other and make noise. Next to it is a little note that says “a weird fidget toy from the piñata” and has an arrow pointing to it. Underneath it is a drawn on dashed line and then text that says “by Xalli”, “apr 19, 2023”, and then notes that my social medias are “insta: desertfirelight”, “tumblr: canineical”, and “neocities: tehuan”. At the bottom of the page is a continuation of the entry wrist band that's on the cover and first page of the zine for The Smell. This part of the band mainly says 'EXIT' on it. /End ID]

[lemonwater8600]

playlist I wrote out for my sister if any of you care

Songs

Harpy Hare - Yaelorke

Emo Boy - Ayesha Erotica

dumb dumb - mazie 

Nights like these - pigeon pit

The moon will sing - the crane wives

Rule #34 - fish in a birdcage

Liquid courage - McCafferty

Big mouth strikes again - 2017 master - the smiths

I bet on losing dogs - Mitski 

I wanna be yours - arctic monkeys

Bad idea! - girl in red

Get it up - mindless self indulgence 

Blue hair - tv girl

Lovers rock - tv girl

Frances forever - Mitski

HEAVEN SAYS. - chart

I like the way you kiss me - artemas 

Call me what you like - lvjy 

4 morant ( better luck next time) - com truise 

Inside out - duster

Honey I’m home - ghost and pals

Pork soda - glass animals

A crows trial - vane lily

Rät - Penelope Scott

Bottom - McCafferty

Father - the front bottoms

505 - arctic monkeys

Digital silence - Peter McPoland 

Gasoline - Halsey

Where is smiley? - serani poji

Strawberry blond - Mitski 

Under my skin - jukebox the ghost

Be gay, do drugs, hail satan - super cassette 

Saint Bernard - Lincoln

Brutus - the buttress

Community gardens - the scary jokes

Spamton - Toby fox

Meet lime cookie - twintails edition - tsundere twintails

Nepo baby - fox szn 

Jersey nova - cactusteam 

Last words of a shooting star - Mitski

The moss - cosmo sheldrake

2econd-2ight-2eer (that was fun, goodbye) - will wood

Katamari - femtanyl

Dogmatica- femtanyl

Sex, drugs, etc. - beach weather 

Art is dead - bo burnham

Control - halsey 

Plug me in - lil soda boi

No children - the mountain goats 

Home where - sir Chloe

Angel eyes and basketball - foot ox

Sleepwalk - Forrest day

Wasted summers - juju<3

Crass - neovaii

Kiss me, son of god - they might be giants

We will commit wolf murder - of Montreal 

Puppet loosely strung - the correspondents 

Spy? - WHOKILLEDXIX

Why’d you only call me when your high - arctic monkeys

Cold weather - glass beach

Person in the mirror - naethan apollo 

[notquiteaghost]

it is once again bandcamp friday today (2nd february 2024)!! here are some albums i have been listening to lately that u shld check out

all of this is chance by lisa o'neill: album of the year 2023 Tbh. irish folk music my beloved. her voice is so so dear to me

in the furrows of common place by jim ghedi: i listen to a lot of english folk music so when i say this is the platonic ideal of english folk music i need you to know i Mean It. this sounds like standing atop the old quarry in my home town n looking out over the valley n feeling the wind in my bones.

twenty twenty twenty twenty one by spencer krug: speaking of bones, at any given moment "my muscles are fine / it's in my fucking bones" is probably running through my head

radium girls (curie eleison) by rachel sumner: this is a single but it's SO good. indie folk is NOT being killed by tiktok dammit listen to this six minute song about a true story and Feel Something

sister wives strike back by sister wife sex strike: speaking of artists u shld follow on tiktok. one day sister wife sex strike will post a cover album & i won't shut up about it for a month. anyway this is folk punk and i adore it. "sealed inside an airtight cage that doesn’t even lock, / the children underground, they learn to cry before they walk, / glass houses underestimate the power of a rock, / so tomorrow hand in hand away from omelas, we’ll walk"

covers by ghostdaughter: speaking of covers!! i am obsessed with ghostdaughter's voice. this has been the soundtrack to my walk to n from work for weeks

and as always go see if YOUR faves are on bandcamp

[amandaanddonnie]

SISTER WIVES Exclusive !! MERI BROWN throws MAJOR SHADE at Ex Husband KO...

[another-punk-trans-woman]

Is your blog title from the song "Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of Your Fist" by Ramshackle Glory?

And follow up question: what are your favorite bands?

It is!! One of my favorite lyrics of all time, but notably it was a quote from a wood carving by Dalia Sapon

My fav bands are constantly in Flux but in no particular order

Against Me!

RENT STRIKE

Sister Wife Sex Strike

Left at London

The Pretty Reckless

Pidgeon Pit

The Crane Wives

[ms-newvegas]

Ok I’m mad at myself for not seeing local news legend and sister wives sex strike last month :((( I saw a video of stitched together clips from all their shows of them playing brave as a noun and everyone is singing and having so much fun in this little show where everyone is dressed so cool :(

[msfbgraves]

So…does Daniel enjoy pregnancy sex in Mobverse lol? Does Terry like seeing him/having him pregnant? And how are other Alphas around pregnant Omegas anyway? Is there a different scent, do they get extra protective or even feral? What are Omegas like during pregnancy?

Daniel does like pregnancy sex, because for the first 8 years of his marriage, it's basically all he's ever had! And he likes it just fine (I'd hate Terry to be the type to not give a damn, but he strikes me as a considerate lover. A bit pushy but very tender). It's an interesting experience for them when he's not constantly pregnant between Anthony and surprise baby Luna, and after. And Terry is insufferably smug about how Daniel is always pregnant. It's the ultimate ego stroke and it does intimidate other Alphas. The scent evokes a mixture of feelings of being around the hottest person you ever saw and basking in the cuddliest snug feeling you've ever had. They want to be around it, it's so comfortable and yet touching Daniel would be a challenge to a very bloody fight. But they want to protect the omega because the scent alone is relaxing as anything. They're always in the house asking to help out, an excuse to bask in it. Touching, again is off limits unless it is to shield, but what Daniel does do often is cuddling one of his babies or young puppies and then giving them to a young Alpha to hold. People have cried, they spend so much time being strong and hard. Sometimes betas, who are not as strongly affected by all of this (for them it's merely relaxed and pleasant) have held a sobbing Alpha friend for minutes afterwards.

And Terry gets to hold all of it. It's better than drugs. Daniel gets very snuggly if he has the chance (when they have more children, Terry often finds his family sitting around the radio, puppies cuddling around their Mama and he simply joins) though that's in the later stages. The first months, he's himself but insanely pretty and quite relaxed. But he really is super concerned about the pregnant beta girls and women and tries to help where he can. He doesn't like how tough it can be on them. Sure, the Alphas with pregnant beta mates are as caring and tender, but they worry because a pregnancy can be so hard on their wives and sisters. Beta men are less cloying, sometimes beta women can prefer that because of course many are perfectly fine and want to get on with life. Omegas tend to take it easier, which would drive some betas up the wall.

[themovieblogonline]

In the short film “Sister Wives” Director/Star Louisa Connolly-Burnham plays Kaidence, the wife of a polygamous husband (Mormon) who must welcome a new wife, 19-year-old Galilee, into her home. Mia McKenna-Bruce plays Galilee. This is actually streaming on Channel 14, which, I assume, is British, as it qualifies for Best British film and Best Actress at the Iris Prize competition. It is eligible for the Oscars and the BAFTA, which makes it the fifth of the five female-directed films I have most recently reviewed to qualify for the 2025 Academy Awards. There is a plan to develop this story of love emerging between the two sister wives into a full length feature film in summer, 2025, with the Director/Star reprising her role.  Connolly-Burnham is responsible for the HollyShort film “How to Have Sex”. She is currently working on the Netflix adaptation of an Agatha Christie work, “The 7 Dial Mystery” with Helena Bonham Carter and Martin Freeman.   The series was inspired by  Broadchurch Creator Chris Chibnall. PLOT We learn that Kaidence was married to their mutual husband Jeremiah (Michael Fox) at age 14. Galilee is only 19, but she has a more adventurous spirit and actually has a cell phone (verboten in the community). Jeremiah is called away to Nevada for four weeks because Brother Amos is sick. While he is away, the sister wives play. Kaidence goes skinny dipping and learns that there is a whole world outside of her marriage, waiting for her. The film was dark, making some things difficult to precisely determine. Director of photography was Angela Zoe Nei and the film could have benefited from more light in some of the scenes. We certainly can understand why the girls decide to bolt and strike out for freedom. Galilee, who had said, “I’ll be very happy here” instead makes both downtrodden women happy when she suggests escape. I did find it difficult to understand the ending scene with Galilee, Kaidence and a car. Whose car is it? How did they get it? Is someone assisting them in their desire to flee? Many questions. CONCLUSION I grew up in Amish country in Iowa. This one was not hard to believe or imagine. This was the fifth short directed by a woman. It didn’t involve filming entirely in a car, but there is a scene at the end where the two escaping wives take off in a vehicle. I wish them good fortune! Read the full article