they call me trouble...

ME: she/her, 42, enjoying exploring sexuality ⭐ heteroflexible ⭐ Black Lives Matter ⭐ Black Trans Lives Matter ⭐ hostess of random pop up themes ⭐ science and word nerd ⭐ unapologetic flirt ⭐ Badass Girl Gang and cohost of @mancrushsaturday ⭐ Not here for your fat fetish ⭐ Asks are always open and often answered ⭐ NO DICK PICS, I promise, I've got way better at home. ⭐ PCOS/IR and not afraid to discuss it ⭐ dm's only work if I follow you, so be interesting enough to get my attention. 😘 https://linktr.ee/42ds https://throne.me/42ds

[42ds-too]

I might finally be getting the hang of this cat's eye polish. Too bad 2/3 of the colors in my kit suck. This pink is good though!

More colors 💅 leave it to the pros: Vmo 💅 ca$h

[42ds]

I think they turned out okay. 😇

[42ds]

So pretty...

[42ds-too]

Just a reminder as the weather heats up: If you see someone wearing something you feel is inappropriate for their body, they may also be wearing a butt plug, which you also would probably find inappropriate.

[42ds-too]

As I was saying...

[42ds]

Wasn't sure I would have the confidence, but I actually was a shirt the entire day, out and about for the entirety.

[nickyandmikey]

when two musicians sing into the same microphone and lean in very close to each other… like omg are you guys gonna kiss now to relieve the homoerotic tension?😳

[nickyandmikey]

THIS IS NOT ABOUT ONE DIRECTION I DON’T KNOW WHO THIS “HARRY” PERSON IS GO WATCH BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AND CLARENCE CLEMONS KISS ON STAGE RIGHT NOW

[irrelevantlyvalid]

op is the only valid person i’ve ever met. everyone else needs to come to the light

[chokolattejedi]

Okay, but this is really important: Bruce Springsteen occupied this really weird place in music history. His songs were all from this pessimistic, nihilistic view of an America that had let him down:

Just like the anti-Vietnam War protest songs that we associate with the 1960s, or the early nihilism that spawned punk music in the 1970s. But he didn’t *sound* like a punk anarchist; he sounded like a country rock singer. When he released Born in the U.S.A. people completely misinterpreted (or possibly ignored) the lyrics in favor of the tone of the music.

Politicians used his music to promote their ‘Murica Yes! brand, and he had to literally explain that that was not what he was about. He’s over here asking when we’re going to have jobs and heathcare, not stanning the politicians who weren’t helping the people.

It was also kind of a big deal that he had an integrated band, because even as late as the 1980s music was still kind of segregated and MTV was straight up racist. They refused to play and promote black artists and then claimed that were no black artists in the first place. Michael Jackson’s record company had to threaten a boycott of their white artists to get MTV to play his Thriller video.

Plus, the first black/white interracial kiss on TV was in 1968 (OG Star Trek). Also it took us until the 70s to get sympathetic gay characters on screen, and the 90s to get gay characters to kiss onscreen. And all of those firsts were met with outrage.

So keep that in mind when you see Bruce Springsteen not just playing with an interracial band, but engaging in an interracial, gay kiss on stage repeatedly.

Passages from American Popular Music by Larry Starr and Christopher Waterman

[executeness]

I used to think that Bruce and Clarence kissing onstage was exuberance, showmanship, and telling racist homophobes to fuck off. Like, they picked up a certain kind of audience and went “Racist homophobes? Not in our house!” And started the kissing then but then I actually looked it up and

https://www.gq.com/story/this-fucked-me-up-bruce-springsteen-singing-about-clarence-clemons

It was a story where… we remade the city. We remade the city, shaping it into the kind of place where our friendship and our love for one another wouldn’t have been such an exceptional thing. - Bruce Springsteen

It wasn’t about showmanship or rejecting bigots or anything it was just. Damn right that was one of the loves of his life and damn right he was going to kiss him onstage

It gets me a little that Bruce has had a divorce, that he’s been married twice, but he loved Clarence for the rest of Clarence’s life and will presumably love him the rest of his own

Clemons said in one interview. “Bruce and I looked at each other and didn’t say anything, we just knew. We knew we were the missing links in each other’s lives. He was what I’d been searching for.” In another version of the story, Clemons says “He looked at me, and I looked at him, and we fell in love.”

I’m having some emotions about it!

“He was elemental in my life,“ Springsteen adds, “and losing him was like losing the rain.”

Not just! I love you pure and deep and true but! I am going to love you like that in front of the whole damn world!

We have fewer narratives about taking risks and making statements for platonic love rather than romantic and supposedly it would be easier to downplay this onstage than romance and! They refused! They fucking refused! In front of hundreds of thousands of people, over the course of years! In the spotlight, in word and deed, I love you!

God I’m not okay about it

[ramshacklefey]

Now I’m mad that this is not among any of the things I was ever told about this artist.

[jbbartram-illu]

I knew about this in general (& via all those fabulous photos), but this just adds even more beautiful context <3

[eregyrn-falls]

Just to add to the pile: this was the cover of Springsteen’s break-through album Born to Run, in 1975:

I mean, will you LOOK at this:

This was the pic chosen for the album cover from an extensive photoshoot, too. A few others:

There’s a lot more online if you search. They’re all pretty amazing. But the photographer is right, the one chosen for the album cover just pops.

[sin-aestheticx]

dick from a nerd that looks at you like you're the most precious thing in the world

[riotd]

i’m very self aware. which unfortunately hasn’t solved anything

[42ds-too]

Just a reminder as the weather heats up: If you see someone wearing something you feel is inappropriate for their body, they may also be wearing a butt plug, which you also would probably find inappropriate.

[42ds-too]

Just a reminder as the weather heats up: If you see someone wearing something you feel is inappropriate for their body, they may also be wearing a butt plug, which you also would probably find inappropriate.

[i-got-a-date-with-the-night]

"I asked Chat gpt"

OK well I asked my crystal ball and it told me the Girl had reached Goblin City

[belairbottom]

@muzizmu

[pleasantlygrimm]

good for him. this man had a vision and he made it happen. homie hiked into the desert, changed into his sluttiest armor and positioned himself just so in front of a blade of grass to hide his shlong.

I yearn to be able to live with this kind of whimsy.

[kuromisgh0st]

we should all be living with this level of dedication and whimsy !! 🗡️

[42ds-too]

I might finally be getting the hang of this cat's eye polish. Too bad 2/3 of the colors in my kit suck. This pink is good though!

More colors 💅 leave it to the pros: Vmo 💅 ca$h

[42ds]

I think they turned out okay. 😇

[42ds]

So pretty...

[gloriousclio]

Luke Skywalker put away his targeting computer to destroy the Death Star so I don't need AI to help me write an email.

[faustique]

i think people who purposely point out somebody's insecurities are real losers

[hatterbby]

half asleep grinding that turns into brutal needy fucking

[42ds]

Yes please

[42ds-too]

Reminder that if I house-sit for you, I *will* shoot lewds in your spaces.

[42ds-too]

What is it about hotel beds that just so unbelievably cozy on the naked body?

[42ds]

[42ds]

DJing a helluva set over here...

[42ds]

How about another?

[the-wanton-house-wife]

I hate most people at airports. The people watching is great but the actual people can kiss my arse.

[42ds-too]

This is why I bring treats for my flight crews every time I fly.

I'm literally pulling up to an airport as I type this, bag of candy in my carry-on. People are the worst. They're even worse when they're traveling.

[42ds-too]

Curb to gate: 11 min.

Yay PreCheck!

Plopped a handful of candy on the counter in front of the desk agent and he did not even look up at me before saying "Anything you want! No questions!"

"So this is just for you guys, but, if there's a window seat available, I would not mind switching."

Within 2 minutes, seat switched and still have time to refill my water bottle before they start boarding the flight. Probably would have been faster... Seriously, be nice to your gate and flight crews.

They will take care of you.

[42ds]

Sometimes a candlelit shower just slaps...

Spoil 🎂 good girl 🎂 control

[42ds]

I need to do my nails. Sure would be nice to have a fun new polish waiting when I get home from this trip