preservation of brokenness

(originally published May 4, 2011.)



^&^

It's true. Broken people hide. They've had to.

preservation of bad advertising

(originally published May 2, 2011.)



(originally seen on) monkeypants:

"caring dads always lube" via retrotrend:

^&^

Yeah, um…in retrospect...BAD AD.

preservation of intelligent kink

(originally published May 2, 2011.)

"It’s worth noting that claiming that there’s something broken in submissives — or in submissive men — amounts to an argument for etiology, yet there’s no consensus on why we have the kinks we do in the BDSM community, and no answer at all from the research, what little there is. There’s a plain inconsistency between sometimes very smart and well-informed people knowing and saying that there’s no available answer to why we do what it is that we do, and then saying (usually among our own) that we know why subs are subs.

"This gets personal for me. I can’t tell you why I have the kinks I do, but I can tell you what I get out of bottoming. The challenge, the difficulty, the trust, the violation of gender and social norms with a partner, all amount to one thing: a site of tremendous intimacy, a shared physical end emotional journey where I am vulnerable to and connected with my partner...like jumping off a cliff. So that’s my answer.

"What these prejudices amount to is a normalizing and centering of the experience of the dominant in The Scene. One way this is apparent is by the overrepresentation of tops or dominants among presenters. Presentations tend to be about skills, often bondage and painplay skills, and there’s a perception that it’s easier for the top to teach these skills. I don’t entirely agree with that perception, but between the overrepresentation of men among tops in The Scene, and the tendency for tops to do the teaching, that means that male tops to most of the talking. As one of Weiss’s informants put it: “[Janus is a] het male dom group. Every single presentation I’ve ever been to, every class I’ve ever taken...across the board, het dom male.” (Weiss at p. 241 n. 14.)

"Maymay tells a story about presenting with a partner somewhere: he’s a bottom, and his partner started out by singletailing his back. And then the audience expected her to stop and start explaining what she had shown. But instead, Maymay, the bottom, started explaining what she was doing, as a top, and what he was doing, as a bottom. It’s a paired activity. It makes perfect sense that the bottom can explain skills for a paired activity. Topping a singletail scene means knowing something about both how to top it and what to expect from the bottom, and vice versa, but the ingrained expectation that tops teach skills was so great that the audience kept looking at the top, expecting her to take over."
~Domism: Role Essentialism and Sexism Intersectionality in the BDSM Scene, via maymay

preservation of Disraeli

(originally published on May 1, 2011.)

"Never apologise for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologise for truth."
~Benjamin Disraeli

preservation of Hunter S.

(originally published May 1, 2011.)
(originally seen on) badacresswithbadhabits:

"Hopes rise and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain."
~Hunter S. Thompson (via lilacskin

preservation of H.G. Wells

(originally published May 1, 2011.)

"Moral indignation is usually jealousy with a halo."
~H.G. Wells

preservation of pink

(originally published on May 1, 2011.)

I want to live in a world where little girls are not pinkified, but where little girls who like pink are not punished for it, either. We can certainly talk about the social pressures surrounding gender roles, and the concerns that people have when they see girls and young women who appear to be forced into performances of femininity by the society around them, but let’s stop acting like they have no agency and free will. Let’s stop acting like women who choose to be feminine are somehow colluders, betraying the movement, bamboozled into thinking that they want to be feminine. Let’s stop denying women their own autonomy by telling them that their expressions of femininity are bad and wrong.

Antifemininity is misogynist. What you are saying when you engage in this type of rhetoric is that you think things traditionally associated with women are wrong. Which is misogynist. By telling feminine women that they don’t belong in the feminist movement, you are reinforcing the idea that to be feminine and a woman is wrong, that women who want to be taken seriously need to be more masculine, because most people view gender presentation in binary ways. This rewards the 'one of the boys' type rhetoric I encounter all over the place from self-avowed feminists who seem to think that bashing on women is a good way to prove how serious they are when it comes to caring about women and bringing men into the feminist movement.
~S.E. Smith, "Get Your Antifemininity Out of My Feminism" (via squintyoureyes)

(originally seen on) morbidfashion:

FUCK YES.

preservation of ratings

(originally published May 1, 2011.)

(originally seen on) blackmagickopera:

"Do you think that your 16 year old daughter hasn't masturbated already? Like, do you really think there's anything in that scene that this chick hasn't already tried when the lights go out at night, or in the bathroom, or in the tub, or with the shower head or something like that? I'm telling you, man, I'm not teaching this broad anything new. If I were to create a rating system, I wouldn’t even put murder right at the top of the chief offenses. I would put rape right at the top, and assault against women. Because it's so insanely overused and insulting how much it's overused in movies as a plot device, a woman in peril. That, to me, is offensive, yet that shit skates."
~Kevin Smith (director) on the ridiculousness of movies about sex receiving NC-17 ratings while extremely violent movies get by with R ratings (via phillip-gallagher

-I will never pay to see another Kevin Smith movie ever again but goddamn do I love this.

(originally seen on) morbidfashion:

He’s absolutely right about the ridiculousness of it–that, and the fact that in that dividing line between sex and death, death always wins out as the lesser moral crime, somehow–but why never pay to see a Kevin Smith movie again?

preservation of Jeanie

(originally published May 1, 2011.)



(originally seen on) fer1972:

Genie goes on Bender! via x-ray delta one

^&^

I still adore the fact that they wanted her to run around in harem pants and a little bolero jacket, but good gods, they couldn’t show her navel, the horror!

preservation of fear

(originally published May 1, 2011.)

"Make the time to be scared of more interesting things."
~Merlin Mann

preservation of SETI

(originally published May 1, 2011.)

"The whole thing is much larger, and you really need to see it. Especially the bit about how much people spend on Starbucks. Yegads.

"John made this because of SETI having to mothball the Allen Telescope Array, and I strongly suspect because people were trying to say there are better things to spend money on. I'll tell you, I think that argument is a crock. First off, it's a false dichotomy; we can afford to do more than what we need to survive. And moreover, there is always something better to spend money on, yet we still seem to be able to justify (or rationalize) the way we spend the money we do.

"In the United States alone we spend five times as much on tobacco products as we do on the entirety of NASA. How's that for rationalization? And what we spend on NASA is much, much more than we spend on SETI (7500x more, actually). And we don't spend enough on NASA, either."
~Bad Astronomer Phil Plait on the Seti Infographic link

(via eddieatthegov)

(via michaelk42)

preservation of WTF

(originally published Aprille 28, 2011.)



Um, yes. That be a foot.

But does that be her foot? Though that would explain the expression...

preservation of Emilie

(originally published Aprille 27, 2011.)

"What I was always told, literally word for word, a million times was growing up in my life--this just tortured me every day--was, 'You are not what is important. You are literally a vessel for the music of some a person has been dead for some hundred of years. You are meant to keep your individuality out if, because it’s not about you.' I'm just too wildly independent and selfish for that. Fuck yeah it's about me, because you're dead and I'm not and I'm the reason why anybody's getting to hear your fucking music. And guess who would have agreed absolutely? The guy who wrote it. They would have never had a problem with that."
~Emilie Autumn

preservation of Mae

(originally published Aprille 20, 2011.)



(originally seen on) importantpeopleee:

"The curve is more powerful than the sword."
~Mae West

Always have been.

preservation of argument

(originally published Aprille 20, 2011.)

"The day the antigay marriage advocates speak out against legalization of divorce as vehemently as gay marriage is the day I'll consider the sincerity of their argument that government should protect the sanctity of marriage."
~Kristen Bell (via samuraifrog)

(via vovat)

preservation of Medium

(originally published Aprille 19, 2011.)



"I just had the weirdest dream."
"Of course you did. It’s a day that ends in y."
~Joe Weber to Patricia Arquette, Medium

preservation of geisha

(originally published Aprille 19, 2011.)



There are so few geisha left in the world, and so many who look towards the style, at least, if not the discipline behind the life.

What will happen when there are no more geisha? Will people continue what they believe are the practices in other countries? Will it fall into various spins on 'vintage fashion' and expire from global memory?

preservation of outer terror

(originally published Aprille 15, 2011.)



And you don’t want to tangle with the guy who invented Cthulhu.

preservation of information

(originally published on Aprille 15, 2011.)



So-called "dead drops"--ninja-installed, offline file storage for uploading and downloading–--are showing up in at least one major city in the US. While this could go national--global, even--without much of a hitch, I think the main article's right in that there are two big barriers to this kind of "service" being reliable: the first being black hats who’d upload virii to the drives just for kicks, and the second being electronics exposed to weather.

Still. Think of the possibilities. Tap a panel in a library and have it recess and expose the data port. Coffeehouses with USBs glued at the base to the bottoms of counters. And why not make this semi-mobile, too? Work in letterboxing to the drop system, make them more 'treasure hunt' oriented, give people good, solid reasons--beyond simply eyes-free uploads and downloads--to maintain them and maintain access to them.

Fascinating idea, however it goes.

preservation of water

(originally published on Aprille 13, 2011.)



My eye keeps moving over this photograph, wondering how it was taken. Was she under a shower? Leaning into a wave? How, exactly, did she end up under this deluge, and not be dripping wet?

(Note from the Editrix on republish: this may have been taken by Patricio Suarez?)