entanglingbriars:

takineko:

kweza-deactivated20221020:

there’s literally no Lilith mentionned in Genesis like you know these girlies got their biblical knowledge from like Supernatural or something

Kabalah cult or whatever. I think that’s where it started

No, it’s so much better. The first reference to the myth of Lilith comes from the medieval Alphabet of Ben Sira, and there’s a seriously good chance that the Ben Sirach is a satire of Jewish literature and made up the Lilith myth to mock extant rabbinical midrashim. My favorite take on it comes from a (I think) nineteenth century rabbi who said it was so blasphemous and heretical that it should be burned even if it’s found on a Yom Kippur that coincides with Shabbat.

argumate:

so Anaïs Nin wrote Delta of Venus, a collection of erotica that includes smatterings of adultery, rape, incest, necrophilia, homosexuality, pretty heavy stuff for the 1940s, but it wasn’t actually published until decades later as it was commissioned for private consumption by The Collector, an American business magnate who was also ordering smut from other writers like Henry Miller.

this is really fucking funny, like these days if Jeff Bezos or Bill Gates wanted to get a little hot under the collar they would just go on AO3 like everybody else, but how much better would it be if they threw cash at Legit Writers and then when they received some Legit Writing they ordered them to take out all the poetry… add more graphic scenes… make it clearer who is sticking what where… no I said no poetic language, cut it out!

but I think it would be even funnier if The Collector turned out to just be a framing device for any artist who wants to let their freak flag fly but is worried they’ll be judged for it (probably doesn’t apply to Nin), or needs a way to overcome the internal sense of cringe (also not applicable): it’s not me that wants to make this filth, I’m merely engaging in work for hire here, I’m the blind instrument of a myopic muse!

basically any time you make something that other people scorn just say oh yeah some crazy American paid me the big bucks for that one, wild isn’t it.

Grippy socks have now built up a lot of the associations that straitjackets and padded rooms once had

Friendly reminder that Horatio Alger, who wrote rags-to-riches American youth fiction in a capital-first Gilded Age like the one we seem to be entering, gets caricatured as pushing an “up by your bootstraps” self-made ethic but his actual work and “luck and pluck” philosophy explicitly emphasizes the necessity of elite patronage and largely advises self-improvement as a way to, with luck, impress bourgeois who are always in search of reliable quality men to run their enterprises

Is kinda funny when people slather on the vulnerability or righteousness to request something unusual or inconvenient around here these days and get passed around for tens of thousands of notes to laugh at, and you’re like “yes, ‘The Boy Who Cried Wolf’ is one of our culture’s foundational myths!”

vriskakinnieaynrand:

kontextmaschine:

The world’s not perfect yet, but to the extent I see dumb stuff go by I’m usually like “well, headed for a fall that way” or even “hey, you know you could play a good game of ‘let’s you and he fight’ with this” these days

what of the vernon dursleyization of the millennials and the tiktokstagram boomerization of the internet (esp zoomers), those seem bad

the '90s were also the jack thompson decade! and this time all right-thinking people don’t have the immunity to it that came from, in retrospect, its opposition not having just spent a decade eating shit.

it’s already scored bigger legislative and cultural wins than, like, the PMRC

As I’ve said before, I think the precedent is how the Silent Generation kinda sucked, so we just had to grind through the '50s and the early '60s until pre-Silent types mentored the Boomers to kicking it off, and then the Silents never really mattered again

rex-sidereus:

rex-sidereus:

I JUST FOUND A LATE ANTIQUE VERSION OF ‘LIVE LOVE LAUGH’ AND I WISH I WERE KIDDING

‘health, life, joy, peace, good cheer, hope’. Mosaic, 4th century, Roman Anatolia. British Museum.

argumate:

siliquasquama said: Orientalist?

modern European “wizards” are a pastiche of exotic foreigners, “Turks” or “Moors” in their colorful robes and funny hats, with occult mysticism derived from mangled phrases in Hebrew, Arabic, or Aramaic, and of course a healthy dose of messed up ideas about Ancient Egypt.

all stories about wizards are racist!

(all wizards are also racist, but that’s a separate issue).

The anime thing where they count like, nuns and nurses as magical types, with their iconic outfits and accessories, is 100% the way these things go

plum-soup:

stupidstupidratcreatures:

panvani:

Me and my bro in the 19th century inhaling and ingesting various chemicals just for fun

mutuals do this

R/researchchemicals

millievfence:

dagny-hashtaggart:

cop-disliker69:

The Simpsons might have single-handedly ended 2500 years of prestige associated with the name ‘Homer’, turning its primary association to “bumbling dolt” from its former association with “illustrious ancient writer of the classics”.

How appropriate that one fictional character should upend the prestige of another

what a nimrod

kontextmaschine:

kontextmaschine:

All those fancy-themselves-saucy young leftists on Twitter like “OMG who cares about inflation, I can think of buying a house now!” gonna be surprised when they find out how increased interest rates and a few million people having the same thought to put their tens of thousands in new wealth towards buying a house do to the mechanics of inflation a/o buying a house

Do wonder how the YIMBYs whose angle is largely “make housing affordable for 30somethings with even well-paying UMC-track urban jobs!” feel.

Or the economists (they hate it). Or even the selective-college graduates who already repaid any loans (that weren’t from their parents), whose concern about its effect on their relative standing probably isn’t alleviated by all the beneficiaries grave-dancing about how they’re more thrilled if their gain comes at these copartisans’ expense.

After all that’s probably the demographic that probably corresponds best to college graduates in, say, 1974, when Michael Dukakis was elected Governor of best-educated Massachusetts and started in on winning that traditionally Republican demographic to the Republicans.

Shifting industrial development from smokestacks to the State Route 128 “Silicon Highway”, proving Democrats could work with, not against, the market, fitting in with the way hippie-back-to-the-land sensibility had evolved to yuppie rurality (John Denver, Colorado, I guess around there Vermont and Maine).

But part of that wasn’t just offering goodies, it was giving assurance that the Democrats weren’t a threat to the middle class. That’s what Willie Horton was – the Republicans saying that however appealing the Democrat economy is, electing Dukakis carried the unacceptable threat that he’d be soft on crime.

(The New Deal coalition’s memory of the Democratic Party was that they ended the Depression and gave us the Golden Age of labor aristocracy, and then by the 50s they were like “let’s break up the almost nation-within-a-nation Dixie South’s formal structures of racialized government, not go McCarthyist wild, and culturally loosen up a bit!” and they were like “yeah fair”

Then that in by the early ‘60s the Dems were like “let’s smile on this northern Negro agitation, leftist and pleasure-seeking youth upsurge!” and the traditional base was like “I dunno, could see this going wrong.” Then by the late '60s “it’s gone wrong! UNDO it!” but into the 70s the Dems just did it more.

That’s the threat.)

Meanwhile, after the '70s, stagflation, the collapse of NYC finances, bringing the money guys on board (and without industrial unions to donate out of dues, the Democratic Party qua party needed money guys to fund it) requires their sense of threat to be assuaged.

After defusing black-crime threat – not sparing the bleeding-heart-sympathetic Ricky Ray Rector from execution! – and succeeding where Dukakis failed at beating George H.W. Bush on an “it’s the economy, stupid” basis, this is why Bill Clinton was so sensitive to the bond market, why he passed a balanced budget. He was assuring them! And since, money guys and business guys are increasingly part of the Democratic coalition.

Which is to say they were realigned in. And they can be realigned right back again.

Abortion’s a cleavage Dems can probably make something of (and if that makes for a back-to-90s-coalitions-cause-breeding-kink-is-hotter-without-breeding reaction, all to the good).

I’ve mentioned that this Oregon gubernatorial election has a centrist Democrat running third-party, basically as “the good 'ol” Democrats you remember before the 2010s, attentive to the nonurban economy and regional industries" against an over-nationalized Portland party (where it’s filling with not-even-Cascadian newcomers!)“

And they’re trying to use this against her but given her tag is "Pro Choice and Pro Jobs” it’s iffy – “She might preserve our access but she won’t join with Democratic governments in Washington and California to use the west coast to save the worrrrrld!” does not feel like it’ll be that compelling if you’re not already the type to be tied into party establishments that give you Twitter talking points

Well really, if the Republicans can run “the Democrats aren’t economically trustworthy for college grads with investments, they’re soft on the crime that might spread from urban centers to your suburb, they don’t run the schools to do what they’re for (COVID closings) and instead use them to incite moral sickness in your children (CRT, trans stuff)” that’s pretty much the 80s-90s playbook right there, and it did pretty well then. Now all they have to do is usher Trump offstage.

Well, the military offer of “sign on with us and we’ll get you out of here to somewhere we’ll provide you with a bed” always resonated in farm country small towns for a reason

femdommunismforthemasses-deacti:

enki2:

This rules please do this

scarysigns:

rendakuenthusiast:

association-of-freed-people:

Saw press calling the Chris Pratt show on Prime “conservative revenge porn” so I watched a few episodes of The Terminal List and the plot is literally about corruption in the military industrial complex. A defense contractor gives a seal team cancer, corrupt bureaucrats cover for the contractor, and there’s a conspiracy to kill all soldiers associated with their cancer causing agent to protect the value of the contractor.

So my question is when did a story arc that highlights and shits on the dangers inherent to the military industrial complex become the exclusive purview of conservatives? As someone who was conscious of politics at the time of 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq it’s like I’ve stepped through the looking glass. The political landscape is unrecognizable from 20 years ago.

micro-usb:

nonbinarymanipulator:

musicforfilms:

Oh my god

Not the depop girls bringing back indulgences…..

This goes beyond indulgences this is straight up depop simony

creaturey:

creaturey:

why tf would there be a “degrading” clothing section in your weirdass terf fantasy world

⬅️ MODEST SENSIBLE CLOTHING FOR FEMINISTS

DEGRADING PERVERT CLOTHING FOR SLUTS ➡️

Like it might explain some things that I remember being in elementary school in the early ‘90s, reading articles about how Title IX was changing scholastic athletics, and relaxing confident that by the time I got to college there would be chick athlete houses to get me drunk and take advantage of me

Uptown/downtown and right/wrong side of the tracks are distinct patterns of economic geography based on the form of long-distance transportation the city grew around.

For shipping, the city grows around a harbor and eventually industry and commerce grows up in the sea-level area around it (“downtown”) while acceptably low-density, high-wealth residence expands into the higher-elevation (“uptown”) hinterlands

Railroads allow inland towns capable of 360° growth, the pattern there is for industry (and subsequently working-class residences) to grow away from the rails in one direction and commerce and administration (and thus middle-class residences) in another

I suppose suburb/inner city is the equivalent pattern for the highway era.

normal-horoscopes:

fourovcups:

normal-horoscopes:

normal-horoscopes:

I love the Sword of Moses

Originally, these strings weird letters were very specific ineffable names of god, but every version of this text that exists is highly corrupt from poor translation, hence the HI HU HA UH HI HI HUH and whatnot.

It looks like a 2 millennia old YouTube poop

“I conjure you SaS I conjure you BRëRb I conjure you FEfifEF I conjure you ShîîSh”