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sorry everyone, i am now all-in on cringe, ive seen helluva boss.

demondicker at your service

Well I've spent the last three hours using leather salvaged from the upholstery of my aunt's couch to make Mayhem a custom harness. Mayhem gets it because I don't know what I'm doing and is the most tolerant of fitting, out of the three cats. Lots of experimental sewing and foiling and patterns!

hellenhighwater

I shaved a liiiiittle bit of extra material off around the collar, but as you can tell, it's quite soft and she's just got a lot of fluff.

bunjywunjy

How big was the largest recorded pig ever?

the record holder for largest domestic pig was Big Bill from Jackson, Tennessee at 2,552 pounds in 1933!

he was also five feet tall at the shoulder. this thing was the size of a small cow.

unfortunately, he was TOO big and had to be put down after he broke a leg because he couldn't support his own weight. modern domestic breeds have largely moved away from this maximum weight model and are more geared towards leaner pigs that don't risk injury from their own size.

bunjywunjy

tldr:

samsketchbook

MINNESOTANS!

I will be doing a LIVE READING of my new book CREAMTHING IN HIS GOLDEN YEAR on FRIDAY JUNE 5th in Minneapolis! (I may read some excerpts from other work as well.)

at EAGLES CLUB 34

2507 E 25th St, Minneapolis, MN

Door at 7, show at 8

There will be a Q+A and signing afterward, as well as a merch table with the book and more.

This is my first live reading where you'll actually be able to buy the book! very exciting!

samsketchbook

a few hours til my reading! I hope to see you there :)

glavilio

Stupid Tiger, illus. G.A.V. Traugot (via barius)

mlarayoukai

age regression omorashi saw

valtsv

i'm like a fujoshi but for dead people

valtsv

if you could see the thread i'm hanging on by you would not say these things to me

yyymmmrrr

finished endwalker. i am very normal about him

33v0

zagzie

this is the best tag I’ve ever gotten in my notifs actually

reynard61

Let's ambush mama! 😼

voidthing

happy month, fellow slurs.

maturebeefformick

slothful-rabbit

I laughed so fucking hard at this

paint-lady

ishowdespair-deactivated2026012

when the curse is lifted

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