I am a recent follower and not up to date on the whole rich gentry thing. Did you get rich through work or inheritance? Do you work now, or just do yardwork? Did you work in the past? Why live in Portland and not somewhere more glamorous if you are rich? Why name your house Karafuto?
(They originally won it in the Russo-Japanese War, the Soviets took it back when they finally declared war on Japan in WWII)
I’m going for a Japonisme styling (basically, “Japanese inspiration filtered through Western practice”), so “Japanese territory in range of 50°N that the Russians used to claim, totally ignoring the natives” fits.
Lot of Barbie discoursers using Ken to work out the issues with masculinity in post-feminist crisis that Joss Whedon gave them Xander for a quarter-century ago.
But nobody wants Xander.
Yeah, it is kind of a shame that girls can only learn things from attractive men.
Many grains of salt on this one, since the methodology definitely biases towards the ‘online’ and dissident and there are limits to how you can adjust for that. It aligns with the qualitative evidence though, so I roughly believe it.
“Marrying your church into the state ruins the church” is one of those increasingly iron laws of modern politics - Francoist Spain had the same dynamic, rapidly accelerating the trendline of secularization. The logic makes sense - by becoming “the state” the church descends into the real & accountable; all of the mistakes of the Iranian government are errors of Islam itself, and the idea that your religious leaders are divinely inspired becomes laughable the eighth time they blunder on regulating the financial system. It is amusing though in that church-state marriage was far and away the method through which most major religions were spread to begin with; modernity flipped a switch and it went from huge asset to mortal liability.
Maybe not that much of a liability, everyone is secularizing after all; its just an impotent cure for that fundamental issue.
Lot of Barbie discoursers using Ken to work out the issues with masculinity in post-feminist crisis that Joss Whedon gave them Xander for a quarter-century ago.
Oh, I realize it’s been a long time since this was in general circulation here, so for the newcomers: my media tag is #it’s media as a reference to this overannotated drawing:
After shit-talking Viking ranges and serious vent hoods as status symbols that trickled down from the truly elite who have them for caterers (or regular household staff!) to use, realize I might actually be getting some for Karafuto, because like
Remember how I occasionally mention I’m rich gentry?
With ambitions?
And like, am basically structuring the backyard as suitable for everyday use OR as a 50+ person entertaining venue?
Like, there is a real chance I will have caterers here on multiple occasions.
Ah, so when you said “build a shed so someone can change into swimmers for the hot tub”, the implicit “if they’re shy and don’t want to just skinny-dip” might not be the only interpretation, it could be you want to party. Like, in a vaguely classy way compared to bottom-tier takeaway pizza and some six-packs of beers. The classy dining not being incompatible with hot tubbing sans swimsuit, of course, if you want to party like the AmericanWest Coast upper class.
and there’ll be racks for clothing and a bin of towels and as long as we’re running water out back for the tub anyway a shower head, like at the beach, only it’ll spray onto dirt under where I’ve dug a pit lined with plastic and filled with rocks with spokes going off to get water to the areas that get hella dry in summer
And there’ll be a water fountain with attached foot tap and bowl for dogs, and it’ll be dual purpose good for both entertaining or for use when working outside in the heat.
After shit-talking Viking ranges and serious vent hoods as status symbols that trickled down from the truly elite who have them for caterers (or regular household staff!) to use, realize I might actually be getting some for Karafuto, because like
Remember how I occasionally mention I’m rich gentry?
With ambitions?
And like, am basically structuring the backyard as suitable for everyday use OR as a 50+ person entertaining venue?
Like, there is a real chance I will have caterers here on multiple occasions.
It’s kind of weird that it presents as a “goth” variant the same as mid-90s Hot Topic, but that that presented as the same thing as Victorian poetry queers listening to The Cure had been weird to start with. Still, it’s for the best that there’s now a popular idiom for young women to have a personality like a softened Jane from Daria and draw attention to how they look and act like really fuckable normies.
(Though stuff around the “big titty” thing makes clear that it’s really more in the lineage of the aesthetic that was passing as rockabilly for a while)
in the next decade we are going to be seeing so many movies where characters have arcs about wanting to be accepted that are stretched out to vaguely resemble a metaphor about being trans with really no other narrative commitment to the concept. and all of them will read to me like this image.
One interesting question is with the autism gone and interpersonal vibe resonance boosted, would people’s deaths (or even just disapproval) affect me more if not for the anxiety zeroing?
Anyway what about my stomach I noticed on waking today that made me hurry the “Overweight side of Normie” pronouncement is that–
Well, so far slimming down has involved the stomach going from more masses – the almost quartered belly – to a single bulge but it was like I was feeling distinct masses again as the next stage coming, almost like a pack of bread rolls…
…and then I realized: that’s a six-pack. That’s the outer form of the torso being distorted by the bulk of abdominal muscles from below the flesh. As I lose more fat, it’ll become clearer.
