I don’t know, but it’s probably full of things like “Praise Cthulhu! Praise Cthulhu!” and “oh shit you’re right, it’s god’s true word” and stuff like that
i wonder if the names trans people pick tend to track the naming trends of their age cohort, the naming trends of people being born around that time, or if they follow a completely different trend. and how that compared to cis people changing their first names.
In the park where they built a street skating course next to a public pool only to find the skaters were hopping the fence to swim after-hours, seems “haha, the skateboarders will have no use for this pool if the water’s drained for the season!” not working out too well either
Okay no that’s funny, it’s a straight-sided lap pool and I’m pretty sure these skaters got in cause they knew they were supposed to skate in drained pools but once they got in there wasn’t anything to do and they had to clamber back out
In the park where they built a street skating course next to a public pool only to find the skaters were hopping the fence to swim after-hours, seems “haha, the skateboarders will have no use for this pool if the water’s drained for the season!” not working out too well either
And for whoever’s hammering my inbox, no, when I was Hollywood I did work with a management company that had a line in kids/teens but really I didn’t see any dirty stuff
the “dirty, exploitative” gossip I heard was how aspiring stage moms would pay to go to “talent expos” in, like, Hawai’i, where agents would be paid to fly in and sleep with EACH OTHER and have a vacation and AT BEST some of these kids would get a chance to move to LA to try to make money for the agents
for all that there WERE hypersexual 14-year-olds with moms who vicariously enjoyed the attention
and the most earnest stage parents who would bend their morals - I remember an evangelical family who didn’t want their elementary-age angel in stuff that said mild curses, but when Scientologists solicited him for an internal campaign that paid, and I called up saying “you probably aren’t interested but it’s my job to ask?” they were like “welllllll”
The sexualization is probably hardest on girls 14-18 in part because of all the “protective” regulations on young actors, as the result of which they’re part of a set-aside-from-normal life system to accommodate, with all sorts of structures and dynamics and local elites that don’t really interact with anything outside of it, but at that point the parents aren’t a load-bearing part.
But to complicate, actresses that age are selected on being able to (sexily) appear younger, for characters of that age you just cast runty 18-year-olds with a lot less regulatory hassle.
Like not as if without regulation child stars wouldn’t be enmeshed in a parallel world full of scumbags, but point being the existing system was co-opted long ago and is in no way a relief from that.
Also note that this dynamic affects how we think of the maturity of teenagers: if you go off mass media depictions and picture an 18-year-old you’re probably thinking of a 22-26 year old (or older – Luke Perry famously developed a receding hairline while playing a high school heartthrob on the 90s teen nighttime soap Beverly Hills, 90210) and your image of “a fifteen-year-old” is really 18 or 19.
both @triviallytrue and @the-real-numbers are straight guys but they post much like girls. they post with a bit of girlish flare. it may be their youth or it may be the influence of mathematics. anyway new type of guy I encountered when I joined this website but now one of my favorites.
Escapist books aimed at women have more sex than escapist books aimed at men which I think is interesting. Like the typical male fantasy lit is like Punchy McSquarejaw who Fights or Shoots and maybe he has a girlfriend but she’s generally a bit superfluous. And then you have girl wish fulfillment books about falling in love with a vampire or dark fairy. And maybe she is also like an assassin or wizard or has a sword or something, but the war and fighting is secondary to the fantasy of being dicked down by a broody sadboy. And sex is part of this fantasy, often explicitly. But guy books spend more time describing spaceships or shootouts or fistfights than sex scenes, even tho the stereotype is that men’s fantasies are mostly sexual
This is a very valid and interesting point. Gonna reblog it to see if anyone following or visiting has some insight and in case I think of something.
Reading fanfiction these past few years I definitely think female sexuality seems to be more thematic, where it pervades the whole thing, including the non-fuck scenes, things like “the dynamic between these two characters and how one invoked the other’s use-value in ways that shifts their self-value”, where male sexuality seems to be more purely sensory, confined to scenes, actions, and descriptions that can be included or omitted to various degrees to serve the fiction product requirements without affecting the arc of the story
A diseased machine invented only to eviscerate biomatter is presently running loose on the streets. Do NOT leave your homes except for important shit like disc golf or bagel sandwiches
And for whoever’s hammering my inbox, no, when I was Hollywood I did work with a management company that had a line in kids/teens but really I didn’t see any dirty stuff
the “dirty, exploitative” gossip I heard was how aspiring stage moms would pay to go to “talent expos” in, like, Hawai’i, where agents would be paid to fly in and sleep with EACH OTHER and have a vacation and AT BEST some of these kids would get a chance to move to LA to try to make money for the agents
for all that there WERE hypersexual 14-year-olds with moms who vicariously enjoyed the attention
and the most earnest stage parents who would bend their morals - I remember an evangelical family who didn’t want their elementary-age angel in stuff that said mild curses, but when Scientologists solicited him for an internal campaign that paid, and I called up saying “you probably aren’t interested but it’s my job to ask?” they were like “welllllll”
The sexualization is probably hardest on girls 14-18 in part because of all the “protective” regulations on young actors, as the result of which they’re part of a set-aside-from-normal life system to accommodate, with all sorts of structures and dynamics and local elites that don’t really interact with anything outside of it, but at that point the parents aren’t a load-bearing part.
But to complicate, actresses that age are selected on being able to (sexily) appear younger, for characters of that age you just cast runty 18-year-olds with a lot less regulatory hassle.
Like not as if without regulation child stars wouldn’t be enmeshed in a parallel world full of scumbags, but point being the existing system was co-opted long ago and is in no way a relief from that.
And for whoever’s hammering my inbox, no, when I was Hollywood I did work with a management company that had a line in kids/teens but really I didn’t see any dirty stuff
the “dirty, exploitative” gossip I heard was how aspiring stage moms would pay to go to “talent expos” in, like, Hawai’i, where agents would be paid to fly in and sleep with EACH OTHER and have a vacation and AT BEST some of these kids would get a chance to move to LA to try to make money for the agents
for all that there WERE hypersexual 14-year-olds with moms who vicariously enjoyed the attention
and the most earnest stage parents who would bend their morals - I remember an evangelical family who didn’t want their elementary-age angel in stuff that said mild curses, but when Scientologists solicited him for an internal campaign that paid, and I called up saying “you probably aren’t interested but it’s my job to ask?” they were like “welllllll”
The sexualization is probably hardest on girls 14-18 in part because of all the “protective” regulations on young actors, as the result of which they’re part of a set-aside-from-normal life system to accommodate, with all sorts of structures and dynamics and local elites that don’t really interact with anything outside of it, but at that point the parents aren’t a load-bearing part.
But to complicate, actresses that age are selected on being able to (sexily) appear younger, for characters of that age you just cast runty 18-year-olds with a lot less regulatory hassle.
One thing this weight loss makes clear is how built many not even specifically muscle bears are, as I shed fat I never passed through a phase of having as much well-structured bulk as that
Something that sticks with me so well I’ve almost certainly posted about it before is once in LA I was walking down Hollywood Boulevard, where they’ve got the walk of fame stars in black terrrazzo with glistening silver inclusions, and I was behind this really stereotypical midwestern tourist family in front of me, puffy overweight with fanny packs, and the dad said to the others “Look, the streets really are paved with broken dreams.”
The actual area there is like big buildings of a ratty but architecturally ambitious 1930s newsie-ass city with one-story retail from when it was the main streetcar corridor of LA since then turned over to tourist trinkets and seedy (with a bunch of old independent motels, it was apparently a major prostitution corridor from the 70s until just before I arrived) low rent stuff
Like the managers I worked for were at literally the corner of Hollywood & Vine, and they did a lot of stuff with child stars and I have to think part of it is that all the flyover stage parents would hear that and draw associations with glamour that everyone actually in the industry knows haven’t been current since the early 1950s
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