preservation of horror tropes

(originally published June 25, 2011.)



"Sure, just let me put down this candle and pull on my high heels. Be there in a minute!"

preservation of abandonment

(originally published June 20, 2011.)



There's a ton of pics out there, all of them deeply tragic, some of them deeply unsettling. Images of Six Flags after Hurricane Katrina.

preservation of Cary

(originally published on June 19, 2011.)



Father's Day always dawns bittersweet. My father died in 1984, of complications brought on by acquiring AIDS. He came down with leukemia in 1982, went to a hospital in San Francisco for a blood transfusion--the common treatment at that time--and, since no one was screening blood yet, developed what was then called GRID as a result.

The only thing I truly resent about his last days is that the hospital firmly denied what was going on. I know their legal staff was panicked, but at the time, this was what we were studying in school. He had Karposi's sarcoma when I went to see him, a staggeringly obvious ailment. But the hospital denied the visual evidence. I didn't want to bring a lawsuit; I wanted him to be accurately diagnosed.

Cary Grant, of course, wasn't my father. But they could have been brothers, easily--the same cleft chin, the same rueful grin, the same width of shoulders, the same half-hooded eyes. To this day, I watch Cary Grant films and my heart clenches, just a bit.

Happy Father's Day.

preservation of sharktopus

(originally published June 18, 2011.)



(originally seen on): anaceofkidneys

PRIDE SHARKTOPUS.

Inspired by matokah's Theme Thursday poll.

ETA: flags, clockwise from center: gay/queer (rainbow), ally (black and white striped with rainbow A), asexual (black/grey/white/purple), bisexual (magenta, lavender, blue), pansexual (magenta, yellow, blue), genderqueer (lavender, olive, white), intersex (pink, white, light blue, pink, white, pink), transgender (light blue, pink, white, pink, light blue).

^&^

Well. Now I finally know what the black/grey/white/purple flags I’ve seen mean.

But what, no leather pride flag? Surely he could hold that between his ferocious teeth?

preservation of Lithium Picnic

(originally published June 18, 2011.)



It strikes me that for all the fetish photography that shows women being tied to things, the really extreme bondage-gear set-ups--like this one--just don't work with harmless girls.

You chain the pretty ones, you bind the pretty ones, sure--tie them to trunks, beds, furniture, walls, floors, each other...and we all know, that's kind of the point.

But get-ups like this suggest something else entirely. This, you do to dangerous girls, girls that bite, girls that scratch, girls that will fight back. You immobilize the ones who strike out. You gag the ones that know the crushing strength of their own jaws.

Willing, not willing, these are abstract concepts at this point. If there's no fight in her eyes, she'll look like a doll. And this woman is not a doll.

Photographer: Lithium Picnic. Model: Apnea. All Rights Reserved, ©2006-2019 Lithium Picnic.

preservation of piercings

(originally published on June 17, 2011.)

(originally seen on) toutpourlamour



^&^
The white lace with those steel curves.

preservation of Warren

(originally published June 8, 2011.)

"Dance like you're stamping on a human face forever, love like you've been in a serious car crash that minced the front of your brain, stab like no one can arrest you, and live like there's no such thing as God."

~Warren Ellis