Bab3 Lincoln

 

[icaseybaybee]

[fuckyeahreligionpigeon]

[segamascott]

[jehovahhthickness]

Lmaoooooooo period. It be like that

[miseducatedmelanicmuse]

[bigtittygothmom666]

[monster2003]

I’m putting in my too weak notice.

[remanence-of-love]

[vexheart]

This

[beardedmrbean]

[wiionme]

[astrangerhybrid]

[depsidase]

[brightlotusmoon]

We've Lost the Spaces That Foster Friendship

We keep offering individual fixes for loneliness while ignoring the disappearance of the spaces where adults once built real relationships.

Sociologists of friendship have long shown that close ties rarely form because someone sets out to “make friends.” They form through repeated exposure, shared activity, and gradual self-disclosure. You show up and see and talk to the same people. Then, you reveal a little more of yourself each time and so trust accumulates. That is how social capital is built.

What struck me was not that a kink community could generate friendship. It was that it had preserved something many mainstream spaces have lost: structured, recurring, interest-based, in-person interaction among adults.

It would be easy to assume that the more someone invests in a stigmatized subculture, the narrower their world becomes. That isn’t what we found. The people most active in in-person BDSM spaces were somewhat more likely to also participate in other hobby and interest-based groups. So, community didn’t appear to replace other ties. If anything, it coexisted with, and perhaps reinforced, broader social engagement.

[evilartificer]

[ozempicofficial]

[headspace-hotel]

My brother got me the Foster translation of the Epic of Gilgamesh for Christmas, and I’ve been reading it and I will be “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA” until further notice. Thank you for understanding

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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaAaaAaaaaahh

[headspace-hotel]

I will write more at length later, but for now I will say. Gilgamesh and Enkidu are not gay as in “there is homoerotic subtext,” Gilgamesh and Enkidu are gay as in “they are explicitly, in the text, Gayly In Romantic Love, as in the word ‘Husband’ is used.”

There is a scene in this version where, after Gilgamesh and Enkidu meet, where Gilgamesh goes to his mother Ninsun to tell her about him and Ninsun responds to Gilgamesh (in a fragmentary section) that he is a hairy wild man that has no family, and Enkidu collapses and bursts into tears. As I said it’s fragmentary but the interpretation seems to be that she thinks Enkidu won’t make a suitable partner for him.

This edition contains a related poem, “Gilgamesh, Enkidu and the Netherworld,” where Enkidu is summoned from the realm of the dead by Gilgamesh

(there’s a manuscript that directly continues their story with Enkidu alive from here, which suggests that Gilgamesh rescued Enkidu alive from the netherworld in the minds of some Sumerians. But there are lot of parallel timelines and different versions of the stories with them.)

Anyway, that poem contains, well, this:

Gilgamesh and Enkidu had gay sex. This fact is not ambiguous

[light-koe-pinsky]

are you familiar with ¨destripando la historia¨?

[headspace-hotel]

This is the best thing i’ve ever seen

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I’m glad this post is getting notes again very happy

[headspace-hotel]

@magsintherain excellent question! I would have to dig deeply and do more research for a full understanding of the answer; what DID ancient sumerians generally see to be “the” story of Gilgamesh?…would they disagree on it?…was the poem we understand as THE epic of Gilgamesh seen as more reliable or more authoritative about the story…?

But I can say that the distinction between “canon” and “fanfic” is a modern invention. Arguably, “fanfic” is closer to how storytelling worked for most of human history.

The term “canon” is derived from the Christian tradition to describe works that are considered divinely inspired and/or sanctioned by the church, distinguishing them from other extra-canonical writings. It is interesting to note that in this original sense, “canon” isn’t a self-evident reality, it is something that had to be created to suppress the proliferation of different understandings of the same story.

Lots to consider and ponder upon.

[featherfangart]

No Love Is Wasted

I made a desperate little sound when I realized I haven't posted this one here yet.

[quasieli]

[Image description: A digital drawing of two gauntlets, one silver and the other black with gold detail, set against a black background. The gauntlets are back to back with the tips of their pointer fingers gently locked with the other's. The gauntlets are surrounded by green foliage and white flowers, and are wrapped up by a red ribbon with darker red text along it reading "No love however brief is wasted". End description.]