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Hello! 17?
Oh gosh, I’ve only been with people who’ve been circumsized so I would love to be with someone uncircumsized to learn the difference! But really I am ok with either one.
100 NSFW Questions Ask Meme
Hey. This blog’s now a year old. And we hit 3,000 followers on the same day, so we figured we’d do something fun. Here’s 100 NSFW questions we’ve come up with. Send in some numbers and you get your answer.
First kiss?
First time masturbating?
First sex toy?
First kink tried?
First time doing oral?
First time having sex? Turn Ons
Biggest turn on?
Biggest turn off?
Quickest way to get horny?
Weirdest thing that ever turned you on?
Top 3 places to be touched?
Ultimate fantasy?
Do you like the idea of a three or moresome?
Do you send nudes? Do you like receiving them? Preferences
Sex or masturbation?
Spit or swallow?
Cut or uncut dicks?
Rough or sensual sex?
Oldest person you’d sleep with?
Loud or quiet partners?
How much foreplay do you like?
How much teasing do you like?
What is too big for you to take?
Do you do hookups or only sleep with a partner?
How much kissing do you like during sex?
What’s the most attractive part of the body? Location
Favourite place to have sex?
Would you have sex in public?
Last place you had sex?
Where would you most like to have sex?
Do you like spontaneous sex, or do you need to be in the mood?
Could you go through with a hookup at a strangers house? Kinks
What’s your biggest kink?
What’s your limit?
Are you okay with name calling in bed?
Would you do any BDSM?
Do you prefer to tie somebody up or be tied up?
Favourite type of bondage?
Do you like orgasm denial/forced orgasm?
Do you like overstimulation?
Do you like having pain involved?
Do you like biting/being bitten?
Have you ever been made to/made somebody beg for it?
Do you have any strange or extreme kinks?
Have any roleplaying preferences?
Send a kink with this number. Do you have that kink? Masturbation
Do you own sex toys? How many?
Favourite Sex Toy?
What do you masturbate to?
How often do you masturbate?
How often do you use sex toys to masturbate?
Do you masturbate with penetration?
Do you go for multiple rounds or settle at one or no orgasms? Oral
Do you enjoy giving oral?
Do you prefer giving or receiving oral?
What makes you orgasm the fastest when receiving oral?
Do you have a preferred technique for giving oral?
Can you deepthroat? For people with dicks…
How long and how thick is it?
Do you do anal? Top or bottom?
Are you circumcised?
Do you like your balls being played with?
Do you enjoy prostate stimulation? Ever came from it?
Where do you like to finish? For people with vaginas…
Do you like playing with your clit?
How do you prefer to do it?
What’s your breast size?
How often do you go braless?
Do you finger yourself?
How familiar are you with your g-spot?
Do you squirt? Sex
Favourite position?
How often do you do unprotected sex?
How loud are you in bed?
Do you enjoy having nipples played with?
Do you like/dislike/love/hate cum?
How good are you at dirty talk?
Do you get sleepy after an orgasm? Other
Do you like wearing/seeing people in lingerie?
Do you masturbate or have sex with clothes on?
What’s your favourite style of underwear?
Are stockings/thigh highs a turn on?
Ever had somebody say no to a kink you suggested trying?
Do you trim, shave or leave pubic hair untouched? How do you prefer partners?
How many orgasms can you have in a day?
How many other people know your dick/bra size?
What do you wear to bed?
Do you eat ass? Do you like having your ass eaten?
Try to describe how orgasm feels for you.
Have you ever been to a strip club? How was it? If not, would you? Fun questions!
Do you name your genitalia?
What would be your stripper name?
Any funny sex stories?
What food if any would you use during sex?
Would you give somebody a sex toy as a gift?
What’s the weirdest porn you’ve ever seen?
Do you often get horny in public?
Ever used something that isn’t made for sex in the bedroom?
Have you ever walked in on somebody or been walked in on?
Do you have any friends you’d sleep with?
i just think i need a woman to look at me and go “im gonna make you my daughter” and not ask for permission
Hey @annihilate-this-week I have a friend in need of a mom if you want another daughter :3
Wouldn’t be the first time I’ve force-daughtered someone.
They always end up liking it though. I’m sweet. :)
It's rare that I see a video from a new band that reminds me of discovering some band from Portland or Chapel Hill during the last half of MTV's 120 Minutes back in summer 1992 or whenever, but this nails it. This is a Richmond band called Sprawl, and the song's called "Backslide." Based solely on this video, I am a big fan.
stereotpyical party games with a group of trans women sounds transcendant. give me truth or dare. make that girl tell the rest of us her most embarassing kink. dare her to lick your boots when she refuses
give me spin the bottle. everyone nervously aitting in a circle slowly getting more and more turned on by seeing their friends make out. as we get more high and drunk everything just keeps getting sloppier and more wild. until it's a haze of hot sweaty groping and kissing and grinding
give me seven minutes in heaven. you and a short, quiet girl you dont know well enter the dark closet. as soon as the door closes she grabs you by the throat and and pushes you against the wall. she squeezes your bulge over your underwear and shoves her tongue down your throat. your moans and whines are drowned out by everyone else listening to music and chatting and having a nice time. while none of them bother to think about how you have become a puddle in this woman's hands. and then eventually a knock comes on the door, she retracts and you stumble out. everyone sees how red and sweaty you are, how fucked up your hair ia, they woop and cheer and giggle, and then the next pairing is sent in.
so yeah if anyone knows and trans girls who would like to have a sleepover just lmk.
Turning the ideas I got from reading this into some kind of fiction project. And in the spirit of the original way I used this tumblr 17 or so years ago, here are the notes I made about it in my phone.
Short story: trans girl sleepover
How old? Probably senior year. California suburb. One girl has been out since 7th grade. A couple more in 9th and 10th. About half the girls at the party came out since junior year started. One or two girls had blockers and have nicole maines vibes, a few still look clocky but are trying even though they arent on hrt quite yet. Its only a month or so away from graduation, one girl is still panicking about passing a class but most are full on senioritis. About half of the girls are a friend group and theyre at the house of the one with the most chill and supportive parents, who arent even in town — at their beach house. Someone from the friend group decided all the trans girls in senior year should be invited to this party and the girl who is our POV is awkward and outcast, no real friends, started transitioning when she turned 18 in september at planned parenthood because her parents dont wanna help and things are real awkward st home.
Part 1: night before. different first person chapters
Annette: chapter 1. Lovebomb/praisekink. Gets overwhelmed, tears running down her cheeks. Also turned on, doesnt understand. Robin kisses her cheek, she turns her head and they start making out
Before that, bit while watching mean girls where natalie gets accused of being regina george and talks about making friends with grace, hating when people dont know shes trans, cant drop her voice due to blockers early, wishes she’d waited, trans girls more attractive than cis girls
Jane: chapter 2. Spin the bottle. Kisses ophelia, it gets hot and heavy, she drops into subspace (nina hartley/kate mackinnon)
Dorothy: chapter 3. Seven minutes in heaven with ophelia. Scared at first. Makes out with ophelia a bit and it turns her on way too much. Confesses crush on amelia, ophelia admits she wants jane, tells dorothy “stay here.”
Ophelia: chapter 4. Grabs annette, pushes her in with dorothy, then grabs jane, drags her up to her room, strips her down to her panties and tucks her into bed then lies on top of her then talks shit. They both get really fucking hard, start dryhumping thru the bedclothes, ophelia nuts all over janes comforter, jane licks it up then licks ophelia clean.
Amelia: chapter 5. dragged by ophelia to 7 mins in heaven closet, shoved in with dorothy. Totally shy, dorothy talks her into sitting with her, starts touching her and not admitting to it, maybe some dubcon but amelia is finally like “i cant take this anymore, will you kiss me? While i jack off?” Dorothy insists Amelia cum on her tummy, which is fleshy and round. Amelia worships it, rubs her cum in to let it dry, then starts feeling up Dorothy’s cock, which is hard, through her twill pants. (Did Dorothy show up in a suit?) cajoles dorothy into touching herself while amelia gropes her and tells her how beautiful she is, licking her nipples and their long sparse hairs, kissing her throat and feeling stubble and whispering to Dorothy about how perfect all these things make her. Dorothy cums on her own belly, Amelia rubs it in too.
Grace: chapter 6. in truth or dare talks about mugging a guy who tried to pick her up as a prostitute in KY. May also tell someone or everyone about pulling a knife in a fight with a bully, getting expelled
Emily: chapter 7. in response to truth or dare, tells story about sucking football player dick, references “has girl dick to suck now.”
Robin: chapter 8. texts Emily re: “girldick to suck,” “want to suck mine lol” they lock eyes across room, first one gets up then other follows. meet in the bathroom, then sneak upstairs to screw around on couch, emily gives robin head then shit goes from there
Natalie: chapter 9. Dares Grace to make out with her. Gets very hot and heavy, they end up heading for bathroom, Grace gropes Natalie and is all WTF when she figures out Natalie has had bottom surgery. Natalie is sorta embarrassed about it but Grace thinks its hot. They go upstairs and fuck in Jane’s mom’s bed (end up there searching for lube — Jane’s bedroom door is locked lol) and natalie cries over having a girl cock in her pussy for the first time. Fall asleep in each others arms
Part 2: morning after. Switches between different plotlines, omniscient narrator.
Jane wakes up under Ophelia, has to pee but doesnt want to disturb her. Finally ophelia wakes up, jane has to pee really bad, ophelia insists she get to pee first. Jane pees herself a lil bit, Ophelia shoves her panties into her mouth, notices she gets a half-chub, drags her back to her room (naked with panties in her mouth) and makes her jack off to orgasm before she can take her panties out of her mouth. Ophelia demands lube from Jane, fingers Jane’s ass while she jacks off, she cums very fast, then Ophelia fucks her throat. Come downstairs all flushed, Jane all messy and dressed in some slutty negligee Ophelia found in her closet. Jane makes big batch of waffle batter.
Annette wakes up being cuddled by Emily and Robin. They make out together for 20 or so minutes, before everyone’s gotta pee. Robin insists they all go to bathroom together, watch each other pee. Emily is whatever about it, Annette highly nervous, Robin fascinated and clearly turned on. Emily and Robin figure out no one’s gotten into Annette’s pants, pull some dubcon groping on her and she gets really into it and is really hard but wont let anyone touch her cock… so Emily fingers her prostate while she’s half clothed on hands and knees on bathroom floor. She groans and gasps and squirts onto the floor. Lot of semen because she hasnt been on HRT for long. Robin starts praising her and calling her a good girl, she and Emily lick the jizz off the floor and start kissing Annette and telling her she’s beautiful and wonderful and perfect and she’s their sister forever and she’s crying and says “i love you” and they say “we love you too baby sis”
Dorothy and Amelia wake up still half-naked in the closet. Dorothy’s tummy is crusty. She’s embarrassed. Amelia feels guilty, starts to cry. Dorothy tells her she’s so happy it happened and she doesnt want Amelia to feel guilty. This turns into them kissing and talking about whether this means theyre girlfriends now. They decide they will be until something changes. Come out and head for bathroom, Dorothy wants a shower before seeing the other girls. Pass Emily, Annette, and Robin, looking happy and teary at the same time, heading up to eat waffles.
Grace and Natalie wake up in Jane’s parents bed and have a weird moment where everything is very uncomfortable because both of them expect the other to be callous and push them away. Natalie decides to break away from it, says “I dont know what happens to us from here but last night meant a lot to me. I do think youre hot, id love to do it again. But whatever you feel is fine, if nothing else I hope we can be cool friends who had an amazing night together.” Grace says “i dare you to go down there holding my hand and tell everyone we’re girlfriends now.” Natalie says “only if its the truth.” Grace says “it is if you want it to be.”
Starting to post this on scribblehub. Two chapters up now. Adding a new one every Friday.
It's almost graduation time at a high school in the Southern California suburbs, and the nine trans girls who are part of the graduating cla
One of my friends has been messaging me lately about the music his students listen to. He teaches undergraduate English, and we're both closing in on 50, so his students are 30 years younger than us. A few of them seem to him like they're the current versions of us -- indie kids who got into alternative music in high school or whatever. This morning he sent me Violent Vira, who a girl he teaches went to see the other night. She also likes Beabadoobee, who I like, and a bunch of other stuff I have never heard of.
Listening to music 49 year old women have never heard of is cool, to be clear.
Anyway, I was curious about Violent Vira once he described her to me as "pop-metal." I listened to her new album, Lover Of A Ghost, and sent my friend some thoughts over Instagram messages. Here's some of that:
I'm hearing 60% Evanescence, 40% Paramore. Pre-2010 Paramore, to be clear. The first three albums.
This is melodramatic AF and I like it. My brain is starting to pick up on hints of early-90s post-hardcore, shit like Ashes and Sense Field. I think this is mall-goth post-metalcore emo for the Zoomer generation. And I think the kids who make this music are getting the influences I hear from at least 2 steps farther down the influence path.
But like: original Evanescence lineup had members of Christian metalcore band Living Sacrifice. And the first three Paramore albums betray a big Sunny Day Real Estate influence.
I’m working on a thing right now that's a novel about 9 trans girls having a sleepover 2 weeks before they graduate high school. Full of perverse barely-legal teen sex for which I make no apologies BUT its really about alienation and self-hatred/self-acceptance and finding community. Anyway, I’m gonna make one of the characters (one you wouldn't expect it from) a big Violent Vira fan now, so there's that. Haha
...and then he asked if I needed any more musical direction from his college student field research, and I said "ALWAYS."
I put on makeup yesterday for the first time in weeks because I was going to hang out with a bunch of guys who were good friends of mine 20 or so years ago but I haven’t seen since. It was the first time I’d been around them as a woman, which is to say as myself, without the mask I always wore around them before. I used a mild version of the voice I use in voice training and kept it up the whole time without any trouble (though I was really thirsty later). Overall, it went well, though one of them did use the wrong pronouns for me at one point (another one subtly corrected him immediately, which was super sweet).
I’ve spent a lot of time over the last 10 years not wanting to be around guys I knew back then. Not so much a concern with women — they generally seem to get it (the ones who didn’t go TERF and block me immediately after my coming out post in 2015). But guys… always felt a little nervous to me. And now they feel quite a bit moreso. But yesterday exceeded expectations. I didn’t think it could be OK with dudes who lived with me over half my life ago. It’s gonna stay a case-by-case thing, but for now I’ve had it proven that it at least can be OK sometimes. Which is nice to know.
stereotpyical party games with a group of trans women sounds transcendant. give me truth or dare. make that girl tell the rest of us her most embarassing kink. dare her to lick your boots when she refuses
give me spin the bottle. everyone nervously aitting in a circle slowly getting more and more turned on by seeing their friends make out. as we get more high and drunk everything just keeps getting sloppier and more wild. until it's a haze of hot sweaty groping and kissing and grinding
give me seven minutes in heaven. you and a short, quiet girl you dont know well enter the dark closet. as soon as the door closes she grabs you by the throat and and pushes you against the wall. she squeezes your bulge over your underwear and shoves her tongue down your throat. your moans and whines are drowned out by everyone else listening to music and chatting and having a nice time. while none of them bother to think about how you have become a puddle in this woman's hands. and then eventually a knock comes on the door, she retracts and you stumble out. everyone sees how red and sweaty you are, how fucked up your hair ia, they woop and cheer and giggle, and then the next pairing is sent in.
so yeah if anyone knows and trans girls who would like to have a sleepover just lmk.
Turning the ideas I got from reading this into some kind of fiction project. And in the spirit of the original way I used this tumblr 17 or so years ago, here are the notes I made about it in my phone.
Short story: trans girl sleepover
How old? Probably senior year. California suburb. One girl has been out since 7th grade. A couple more in 9th and 10th. About half the girls at the party came out since junior year started. One or two girls had blockers and have nicole maines vibes, a few still look clocky but are trying even though they arent on hrt quite yet. Its only a month or so away from graduation, one girl is still panicking about passing a class but most are full on senioritis. About half of the girls are a friend group and theyre at the house of the one with the most chill and supportive parents, who arent even in town — at their beach house. Someone from the friend group decided all the trans girls in senior year should be invited to this party and the girl who is our POV is awkward and outcast, no real friends, started transitioning when she turned 18 in september at planned parenthood because her parents dont wanna help and things are real awkward st home.
Part 1: night before. different first person chapters
Annette: chapter 1. Lovebomb/praisekink. Gets overwhelmed, tears running down her cheeks. Also turned on, doesnt understand. Robin kisses her cheek, she turns her head and they start making out
Before that, bit while watching mean girls where natalie gets accused of being regina george and talks about making friends with grace, hating when people dont know shes trans, cant drop her voice due to blockers early, wishes she’d waited, trans girls more attractive than cis girls
Jane: chapter 2. Spin the bottle. Kisses ophelia, it gets hot and heavy, she drops into subspace (nina hartley/kate mackinnon)
Dorothy: chapter 3. Seven minutes in heaven with ophelia. Scared at first. Makes out with ophelia a bit and it turns her on way too much. Confesses crush on amelia, ophelia admits she wants jane, tells dorothy “stay here.”
Ophelia: chapter 4. Grabs annette, pushes her in with dorothy, then grabs jane, drags her up to her room, strips her down to her panties and tucks her into bed then lies on top of her then talks shit. They both get really fucking hard, start dryhumping thru the bedclothes, ophelia nuts all over janes comforter, jane licks it up then licks ophelia clean.
Amelia: chapter 5. dragged by ophelia to 7 mins in heaven closet, shoved in with dorothy. Totally shy, dorothy talks her into sitting with her, starts touching her and not admitting to it, maybe some dubcon but amelia is finally like “i cant take this anymore, will you kiss me? While i jack off?” Dorothy insists Amelia cum on her tummy, which is fleshy and round. Amelia worships it, rubs her cum in to let it dry, then starts feeling up Dorothy’s cock, which is hard, through her twill pants. (Did Dorothy show up in a suit?) cajoles dorothy into touching herself while amelia gropes her and tells her how beautiful she is, licking her nipples and their long sparse hairs, kissing her throat and feeling stubble and whispering to Dorothy about how perfect all these things make her. Dorothy cums on her own belly, Amelia rubs it in too.
Grace: chapter 6. in truth or dare talks about mugging a guy who tried to pick her up as a prostitute in KY. May also tell someone or everyone about pulling a knife in a fight with a bully, getting expelled
Emily: chapter 7. in response to truth or dare, tells story about sucking football player dick, references “has girl dick to suck now.”
Robin: chapter 8. texts Emily re: “girldick to suck,” “want to suck mine lol” they lock eyes across room, first one gets up then other follows. meet in the bathroom, then sneak upstairs to screw around on couch, emily gives robin head then shit goes from there
Natalie: chapter 9. Dares Grace to make out with her. Gets very hot and heavy, they end up heading for bathroom, Grace gropes Natalie and is all WTF when she figures out Natalie has had bottom surgery. Natalie is sorta embarrassed about it but Grace thinks its hot. They go upstairs and fuck in Jane’s mom’s bed (end up there searching for lube — Jane’s bedroom door is locked lol) and natalie cries over having a girl cock in her pussy for the first time. Fall asleep in each others arms
Part 2: morning after. Switches between different plotlines, omniscient narrator.
Jane wakes up under Ophelia, has to pee but doesnt want to disturb her. Finally ophelia wakes up, jane has to pee really bad, ophelia insists she get to pee first. Jane pees herself a lil bit, Ophelia shoves her panties into her mouth, notices she gets a half-chub, drags her back to her room (naked with panties in her mouth) and makes her jack off to orgasm before she can take her panties out of her mouth. Ophelia demands lube from Jane, fingers Jane’s ass while she jacks off, she cums very fast, then Ophelia fucks her throat. Come downstairs all flushed, Jane all messy and dressed in some slutty negligee Ophelia found in her closet. Jane makes big batch of waffle batter.
Annette wakes up being cuddled by Emily and Robin. They make out together for 20 or so minutes, before everyone’s gotta pee. Robin insists they all go to bathroom together, watch each other pee. Emily is whatever about it, Annette highly nervous, Robin fascinated and clearly turned on. Emily and Robin figure out no one’s gotten into Annette’s pants, pull some dubcon groping on her and she gets really into it and is really hard but wont let anyone touch her cock… so Emily fingers her prostate while she’s half clothed on hands and knees on bathroom floor. She groans and gasps and squirts onto the floor. Lot of semen because she hasnt been on HRT for long. Robin starts praising her and calling her a good girl, she and Emily lick the jizz off the floor and start kissing Annette and telling her she’s beautiful and wonderful and perfect and she’s their sister forever and she’s crying and says “i love you” and they say “we love you too baby sis”
Dorothy and Amelia wake up still half-naked in the closet. Dorothy’s tummy is crusty. She’s embarrassed. Amelia feels guilty, starts to cry. Dorothy tells her she’s so happy it happened and she doesnt want Amelia to feel guilty. This turns into them kissing and talking about whether this means theyre girlfriends now. They decide they will be until something changes. Come out and head for bathroom, Dorothy wants a shower before seeing the other girls. Pass Emily, Annette, and Robin, looking happy and teary at the same time, heading up to eat waffles.
Grace and Natalie wake up in Jane’s parents bed and have a weird moment where everything is very uncomfortable because both of them expect the other to be callous and push them away. Natalie decides to break away from it, says “I dont know what happens to us from here but last night meant a lot to me. I do think youre hot, id love to do it again. But whatever you feel is fine, if nothing else I hope we can be cool friends who had an amazing night together.” Grace says “i dare you to go down there holding my hand and tell everyone we’re girlfriends now.” Natalie says “only if its the truth.” Grace says “it is if you want it to be.”
it's very important that you're friends with furries and trannies and faggots and freaks and perverts it's good for your soul
reblorg if you're a furry, a tranny, a faggot, a freak and/or a pervert!
The Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t’ve)
Baby sis anthem.
It's been a while since I posted here but the rom-com novel I started posting on Scribblehub over the summer is complete and finished over there. Hoping to do an ebook version in 2026 and sell it for a couple bucks or whatever, but you can read the whole thing for free now over at Scribblehub if you feel like it.
Here's what it's about:
Janet Starr has been in the porn industry for years, and since she went sober a couple of years ago, she's gotten really jaded to it. Then she does a shoot with transgender punk camgirl Amy Nitrate, who is just starting to break into porn. The sex is incredible, but more importantly, they're instantly attracted to each other. Amy makes her living mainly from a certain explicit-content subscription site, and Janet's got a lot of questions. Learning the answers to her questions is an easy excuse to shoot more scenes together. But what happens when Janet and Amy start developing real feelings for each other? Are they willing to pursue those feelings if the cost is their careers in the adult film industry?
If you check it out, let me know what you think.
White House officials grouped both orders under the Trump administration’s wider “restoring sanity” agenda.
Uhhh… help, I’ve been outlawed?
I can’t handle social media anymore. I deleted everything off my phone except bluesky earlier this week. Then today I deleted bluesky too. Just can’t deal with watching everyone argue over which politician is responsible for the fucking tiktok ban while i worry that my heathcare will be outlawed by executive order tomorrow afternoon. It’s fucking demoralizing. The left figures trans people are an acceptable loss and the right is using us as a primary target. How the hell will I survive the next four years?
Uncredited Photographer Ska Musicians Prince Buster and Brigitte Bond Dancing, London 1964
Reminder that Brigitte, who with her pose in this pic inspired the "Beat Girl" logo used by the (english) Beat, is (was?) trans.
Women in Punk Interview with Trudie Arguelles-Barrett
Trudie is arguably the one of the best known female faces to emerge from the early Los Angeles/Hollywood punk scene, having been crowned “L.A.’s Most Popular Punk” by NY Rocker, interviewed by San Francisco’s Search and Destroy and immortalized in song (Trudie Trudie by the Gears).
Trudie by Lynda Burdick
If the Class of ‘77 were to have a homecoming queen, it would definitely be Trudie Arguelles. She was the girl all the boys (and many of the girls) were in love with. She had that “girl next door” quality, but she could be as wild as any of us.
Helen Killer and Trudie, Plunger Sisters by Donna Santisi
She was friendly, approachable and was the perfect ambassador for the Hollywood punk scene, which helps explain why she was so well known outside of L.A. When K.K.Barrett of the Screamers finally married Trudie, scores of hearts were broken. They are still together.
Trudie and KK Barrett, 1978-79.
Interview with: Trudie Arguelles-Barrett conducted April 2005
Q: What was/is your contribution to the punk community?
Trudie: All around exuberance and a few guest lists. Our apartment turned out to be the general meeting place of the early LA “punk” community before it had a name or shape. The LA bands were just starting up at the time. This started before we even considered the term “punk” for ourselves or anyone else in LA. We (the Plungers and our Pit) became vital as connections, social servicers and free floor to pass out on if the two beds were full (which meant 4 people in each).
There was one room, a kitchen and a bathroom with a toilet that usually didn’t work. You’d pee in the bathtub and otherwise use Lillian’s, the gay bar across the street. Since we had no phone, people would come over to find out where the good show was that night, what was going on, what bands were in town etc. There was no internet or newspaper ads at the time (no LA Weekly). The only way to advertise was by handing out flyers or mainly gluing them onto telephone poles. When bands from out of town showed up they would check in too. Blondie would come over to get their hair cut by Hellin, Stiv would come over to see me, the Deadboys and the Mumps from NY were there a lot, we’d have parties after bands played at the Starwood which was practically across the street. The Zeros were always there from Chula Vista, and San Francisco bands…Trixie loved Crime. We met the Dickies before they’d played anywhere. They were from the Valley (San Fernando that is), so far from Hollywood, so they would stay at our place.
Mary Rat, Trudie, unknown female by Jenny Lens, 1977
Q: Which artist, band concert and/or show had the most impact on your life?
Trudie: The Screamers are the obvious choice since I married one of them. And their show was more of an experience than any other I can think of. They were just magical, the sounds, energy, attitude, look and drama.
The Screamers, photo by Jeff Good
Other bands that I loved were the Germs (for raw exhilarating chaos), the Pistols and Damned, Dead Boys, Weirdos, and for me it all started with the Stooges and the Doors recordings, then the Dolls and the Ramones. I was one of the many who heard the Ramones first album and I knew instantly, from the first song, that it was a sound the world had never heard. I was so excited about it, then I played it for some twenty-something people and their comment was, “They’re just copying the Beatles, what’s the big deal?” In high school, Patti Smith’s first album, her lyrics (and) originality was very inspiring to me. That album was from one woman’s point of view and I had never heard any woman’s ideas, fantasies, nothing before that, except maybe Joni Mitchell but that wasn’t as passionate and wild. It was completely different from anything else at the time. Just that one album is such a classic.
PUNK WAS LIKE A RIOT AFTER THE FLOWER-POWER HANGOVER
Q: What was the role of women in the early punk scene?
Trudie: Women had whatever role they wanted in the early punk days. Everyone was a pioneer, there was no scene happening till all these kids made one, there were no roles to follow. Because everything from the music to the clubs to the style was invented each day. There were absolutely no females to emulate before punk. There was Suzy Quatro, I remember all girl-parties when she was on Happy Days. But she was wearing that leather outfit, it was kind of glam. Other than that there were no women in rock bands that I saw until the Runaways who were friends and classmates of ours. At the same time as we were going to Runaways shows all over So. Cal., Patti Smith’s first album came out.
Patti Smith, cover photo for Horses by Robert Mapplethorpe.
Then you’d start to see the girls with short hair, it was great to see women starting bands, starting fights, screaming as loud as the boys, they were just as tough, and I loved it. I mean this butch side did come out with punk that probably couldn’t appear before that as strongly, because of the whole attitude of assertion that was punk, that was what had never been in our lives before. Punk was like a riot after the flower-power hangover. We were finally freed of tie-dye and macrame and just wanted to splatter and crazy color and invent ourselves. Today, I think Karen O. of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs is the woman who most reminds me of the early punk women. Maybe that’s because she’s also an artist and has the same spirit and wild abandon onstage that I remember of the early punk girls.
Trudie, by Ruby Ray
THE WORLD IS WHATEVER YOU WANT TO MAKE OF IT
Q: What is the legacy of punk in your life?
Trudie: Pogoing is good exercise but don’t whip your head around like I used to, you’ll regret that. When people started to call us punks I hated it. Being labeled anything is never nice. But there is no denying that those early couple years were just brilliant and I am so glad to have been a part of that but I drifted away from it as soon as it had a label. I was not interested in punk music really, or I guess that would be hard-core, always hated how the bands started all sounding alike. I liked good songs that were a little different from what I’d heard before, not the same sound. But the energy and life that the scene originally took on is something I wish that my own children can find, hopefully while they’re still young enough to not have any responsibilities so they can have the feeling that the world is whatever they want to make of it. At the time, we all knew something historic was going on though we didn’t really know what it was or what effect punk would have. Of course, I love seeing my kids and their friends doing something fresh, fun and a bit crazy, and just starting bands or making things.
IT MAKES ME SAD WHEN ARTISTS AREN’T AS GOOD AS THEY USED TO BE
Q: What are you listening to now?
Trudie: I like new music, mainly. I get bored by the old, just keeping a few classics on my i-pod. I tend to listen to singer-songwriter things with good lyrics like Elliot Smith, Bright Eyes, Azure Ray, Sleepy Jackson, Carla Bruni, Liz Phair and I like Air. But I also like the Strokes, Interpol, the Dandy Warhols and I love Outcast, Dizzee Rascal, Beck and flamenco music. Also some strange music from Fonal Records in Finland. As for punk music, Green Day are still good. I really don’t listen to much of it though, but sometimes it’s fun to hear an oldie by accident on the car radio, great driving music, things that were NEVER played on the radio back when they were released like the Stooges and Sex Pistols. I don’t see enough concerts, recently saw Marianne Faithful. I’d never been a fan but on a couple songs she was so good that I realized a younger person could not sing those songs as well, with that much emotion. It was great to know age does have it’s value in rock because most people just get worse with age musically. I shouldn’t say that but it makes me sad when artists aren’t as good as they used to be. They should be better, but we all get lazy and lose that feistiness, I suppose. Too bad. Luckily some people stay curious and worthwhile, like Alice.
Q: Do you have any funny or interesting stories to share?
Trudie: I have quite a few in my old diaries. At Allison Anders’ next rock film festival there may be readings of some of them by actors. It’s so funny that this period only lasted like 1 ½ to 2 years, if I hadn’t written things down, it would all be forgotten, coming back like dream fragments once in awhile. One Plunger story was the ice-cream heist. The other 3 Plungers, Hellin Killer, Mary Rat and Trixie Treat were always trying to get jobs at ice cream parlors but never succeeded. One day Mary was looking out the Plunger Pit kitchen window into the alley when she spied an ice cream truck whose driver was in the midst of a restaurant delivery. She alerted the rest of us and we all went out and opened the freezer door and stole armfuls of ice cream cartons before the driver came back from his delivery. Unfortunately out refrigerator immediately broke down and we had all the neighbors in the apartment building storing ice cream for us in their freezers. We never had much food in the place. The Dickies came over and cooked Thanksgiving dinner for us. Leonard was a good cook.
Q: Are there any punk women from the early scene that you feel have not been been adequately recognized?
Trudie: Well I heard Paul Roessler was writing something about Gerber who was a crazy character of the time. I’m sure there are some great stories there with some of them, most of them actually. Chase Holliday, Fayette Hauser, Connie Clarksville, Rover, Nicole Panter, Pleasant, Pandora, Paula, Jade and Zandra, Kira Roessler, Karla Mad-Dog, Backstage Pass was I think the other all- girl band in LA and the first band to play at the Masque, Sheila, Miriam Linna, the Cramps first drummer who let me crash at her apts. in NY, and all the Plungers!
Gerber, by Dawn Wirth. 1977
Q: What is something we should know about you that we probably don’t know?
Trudie: Punk led to hip-hop which was just as amazing a time to me. Near MacArthur Park we opened an all-ages club with Alex called Radio where the kids started that scene in LA. With Ice Tea as the mc and special guests performing every night was full of rap and break dancing by more ground- breaking teens. I also did the graphics, ads and t-shirts there which led to more art jobs. I was in a couple bands over the years, the Boneheads and Alarma! as well as a few shows with Castration Squad! I have three offspring and one is already a man(!) I don’t know if anyone should actually know this but the first time I met Alice we were both wearing Ace Frehley silver stars on our eyes at a Kiss concert!
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