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trying to focus on beautiful things. doll crafts, random fandom, strictly no discourse, ghosts

[birlinterrupted]

my only addition to the proliferation of pride flags is that honestly someone should just start making pride flags that are for the most part inoffensive but then like give the meanings of the stripes like absurdly controversial microcommunity discourse. like "here's my pride flag - the stripes represent all the different types of attraction in the split attraction model, the maroon represents that bisexuality represents being attracted to the two binary genders, the green stands for lesbian bed death, and the stars represent the amount of hypervisibility that trans women use to take up all the space and oppress afab trans people via invisibility and the labrys represents lesbians who are into men (cis men only, obviously). nothing it in represents gay men because they are not oppressed" creating perhaps the most hated object in the queer community and uniting us all

[honorarycassowary]

good job op, the sheer memory of these discourse highlights made me seethe. so of course I made the flag you described.

[birlinterrupted]

okay wow. spread this like wildfire for the people in the back or else you dont care about our community, why is nobody talking about this. the discoursegender flag

[starbright-cobweb]

sucks following/being around the same online people (who you don't really know, but you know them) for years and years, and whenever you roll across their blog they're still crowdfunding for this or that crisis, still on the perpetual brink of life emergency, that's so integral to who they are because society keeps doing its thing, inescapable, like why would thinks have got any better for this person, realistically? still: it's awful, and you then think back and start wondering "how long have I quasi-known this person anyway, it's been a While", trying to quantify the instability in years - which is daft, because life isn't inevitably resolved over time, it can be a haze of onethingafteranother that doesn't stop, and you have to live within it all the same

[starbright-cobweb]

Hello, Sapphire & Steel and Robin of Sherwood fandoms.

Do either of us have a Discord server, or a currently active fandom community space?

If the answer is yes, please let me know so I can link to you.

If no: you could do worse than join Old British Telly, a pan-fandom space to support and build communities for tiny-fandoms of telly past.

[sphinxyvic]

Robin of Sherwood!!!!! That is my favorite version of that legend! Definitely more a Michael Praed than a Jason Connery girl, but I loved it all. I especially love Tuck and John’s lovely relationship! Oh I really need to find a way to play my British DVDs of that series! Bought them hoping to get a universal player but never found one. The DVD set is amazing and has some wonderful BTS extras and commentaries! I will go and look for things on Discord though!

[starbright-cobweb]

Me too, its such a wonderful series. I actually got into it through my parents' LP of the Clannad soundtrack, but when I finally saw the real thing it did not disappoint. Absolutely perfect.

It's a shame that Connery is so miscast, because there's a germ of a great idea in the crossover between S2 and S3 and it just doesn't land. I'm also very into the Sherrif's gleeful pantomime villainy

I love that the show always makes five or ten minutes for the Merry Men to just hang about and chill; and I like Robin's vibe, a little bit culty and messianic. And the costumes are gorgeous, and the otherwordliness.

It'd be lovely to see you on the Discord!

(The RoS episodes are currently viewable on youtube!)

[lestatslestits]

There’s something very holy about the way a song can stop being about whatever it’s about, and start being about who and where you were at the time it meant something to you.

[lestatslestits]

i am humbly asking you to explain that orville peck tag. im so intrigued

I’m happy to explain!

For anyone who needs context, I said that being an Orville Peck fan has made me immune to “kink at pride discourse.” I’m not going to get into the nitty-gritty of what kink at pride constitutes. It seems to mean different things to different people. What I am specifically talking about here is the simple existence of things associated with kink (such as harnessses) at pride events.

Orville Peck has a new mask these days. It’s molded to his face, a perfect fit. It emphasizes his eyes and the shape of his nose.

But before this mask, he wore another style: those masks were soft, flexible leather. They did more to obscure the shape of his face. He made them himself. Which makes sense. He’s said before that his mother was a seamstress, among other things, and that he spent two years studying masks and theory associated with them.

"I studied the Jacques Lecoq mask as a performance and, you know, especially in something called the neutral mask which is something that a lot of actors study with and things like that. And, it basically just works off of the idea that sometimes, putting a mask on reveals a lot more than it conceals. I mean, I would actually encourage people to look into it and research it. It's an extremely fascinating art form. It's actually very telling of who people really are."

Jaques Lecoq was a French acting and movement coach. He had a lot of unique techniques, but the one Orville focused on was his work with masks. From his Wikipedia page:

“His training involved an emphasis on masks, starting with the neutral mask. This neutral mask is symmetrical, the brows are soft, and the mouth is made to look ready to perform any action. Lecoq believed that this mask allowed his students to be open when performing and to fully let the world affect their bodies. This is because the mask is made to seem as if it has no past and no previous knowledge of how the world works. This is supposed to allow students to live in a state of unknowing in their performance. The aim was that the neutral mask can aid an awareness of physical mannerisms as they get greatly emphasized to an audience whilst wearing the mask.”

He has also talked openly about what masks mean to him.

“I love masks. I come from a culture where masks are really prevalent—used in ritual and performance. I think that masks enhance a personality and reveal things about a person you would never know otherwise. People get hung up on mine because they think I'm trying to fabricate a mystery or hide, but it's not about any of those things.”

“I don’t think of myself as anonymous at all. It’s what I needed to do to make the kind of art that I wanted to make. This is just an expression of who I am deep in my heart. And it allows me to be completely exposed and sincere. I guess that’s kind of the irony of what I do.”

He has compared his masks to Dolly Parton’s wigs, Johnny Cash’s “Man in Black” persona, and Porter Wagoner’s Nudie Suits.

"I grew up loving country and western stars like Dolly Parton, Johnny Cash and Merle Haggard—people that built a whole legend about themselves, and it wasn't just about music. It was sincerity, but it was also storytelling and performance. So that's what I wanted to do.”

He also makes it clear that the masks are a type of drag.

But in spite of his openness about the masks and their meaning, a lot of early reviews begged to differ.

Not EVERY review called his mask a bondage mask. But a lot did. Often right after reminding the reader that Orville Peck is gay.

Reading those early reviews is one of the things that made it click for me that everything queer people do will be sexualized. And not just sexualized, placed under the label of kink.

Orville Peck doesn’t get explicit, but he has also never shied away from expressing his sexuality, or sexuality in general. He talks openly about being gay. The music video for his first single, “Dead of Night,” was filmed in the Chicken Ranch Brothel in Nevada. In “Blush,” a song on his new album, Bronco, he says, “I don’t miss you that much, but, baby, watching you blush, some of us we just gotta ride. Some of us, we gotta saddle up and ride.”

If the mask was meant to be sexual, I think we would know. But he is a queer artist who uses his mask as a display of identity and of vulnerability. That kind of thing is pretty much always going to get sexualized. No pride celebration, no matter how tame, how vanilla, ever stood a chance.

[lestatslestits]

I have a statement that I think might piss people off because I’m right. So hear me out.

Cats the Musical isn’t—it isn’t not folk horror.

[mistoffeleees]

please go on

[lestatslestits]

I would love to!

So basically, folk horror is a subgenre of horror that focuses largely on folklore and ritual. That’s a VERY loose definition, because folk horror can cover a broad range of things and sometimes leeches into other aesthetics and subgenres. I’m using Adam Scovell’s basic guidelines for what constitutes folk horror when I talk about it in relation to Cats.

Disclaimer: I’m not saying this to support an “edgy” reading of Cats, anymore than what I feel the text provides for open interpretation. I find Cats to be ultimately a very joyful, positive show. I’m more arguing that it structurally fits the definition of folk horror and CAN be interpreted through a specifically folklore/folk horror/urban wyrd lens, and I find it interesting that these concepts CAN be used to interpret something that can also ultimately be considered quite positive.

Further disclaimer that I am, by no means, a folk horror expert, and I’m mostly interpreting the work of far more educated people. Check out Celluloid Wickerman and Folk Horror Revival for more comprehensive analysis of folk horror and what defines it.

Now. Folk horror generally focuses on British stories, which works well since Cats is based on a British text, adapted for stage by a British creative team, originally for a British audience. Folk horror extends beyond Britain into pretty much every culture, but may look much different within other cultures—which is more of a side note than part of my argument here. Suffice it to say, British folk horror is the most recognizable folk horror.

Adam Scovell has suggested that folk horror is typically comprised of four basic elements, linked in order:

Landscape

Isolation

Skewed Moral Beliefs

Happening/Summoning

Some people define folk horror as being inherently rural. I like Folk Horror Revival’s definition of “landscape” as also referring to cultural beliefs, often rural, carried into new or more urban areas, or the history of a place coming forward as a source of horror. At that point, folk horror often overlaps with urban wyrd, which deals more with these horror elements in urban spaces.

Cats takes place within an urban area, but is also mostly confined to the sidelines of that area. In “Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats” we are told that Jellicle Cats have existed throughout time AND as a part of human religion and folklore, but we see that the Jellicles have currently reclaimed an urban space (a junkyard) as their own, and that they observe their own folk traditions there, in many cases removing themselves from more mainstream urban life with humans in order to do so. Boom. Landscape.

Isolation and skewed moral beliefs typically refers to an outside observer or observers being exposed to an insular group whose way of life is very different from their own. In the case of folk horror there’s typically an assumption that the differences is in some way malevolent, although I prefer to think of it as what we would, in the language of tropes, refer to as “blue and orange morality.” In other words, a morality or way of life that is so removed from an observer’s own that, benign or otherwise, it is pretty much impossible to understand or pin down using our version of morality. In horror terms, examples include the main characters of The Wickerman, Midsommar, or Harvest Home being exposed to insular traditions. In more benign or morally neutral examples, think of fae logic, or possibly some of the planets visited in Star Trek—humans may be completely unable to understand the morality, but that doesn’t make it inherently inferior or worse. The culture of the Jellicle Cats is clearly the skewed moral belief/blue and orange morality element. But who is being isolated? Well, we are. The Jellicles provide the definition of what a Jellicle Cat IS to “a man over there, with a look of surprise, as much as to say, ‘well, now, how about that?’’’ Old Deuteronomy performs “The Ad-dressing of Cats” to the audience. The inclusion of the audience is SO fundamental to Cats that the film had to use Victoria as an audience stand-in for the structure of the story to make any kind of sense (and it didn’t work). WE are characters in Cats. If there is any true horror in the story, it’s in the fact that if we DO find the Jellicle Ball alarming, we are powerless observers.

The Happening/Summoning is an event at the end of the story that either invokes a supernatural event or entity, and/or leads to ritual violence or sacrifice. The folklore can be “real” within the universe, or fictional—oftentimes the line may be blurred, sometimes it doesn’t really matter. What matters is that a typically diegetic set of folkloric beliefs drives the story to its conclusion. In the case of Cats, the Jellicle Choice is a real—and ultimately positively portrayed—ritual. But regardless of the relief of Cats subverting the mostly typical cruelty of folk horror, the Jellicle Ball still fits within the framework of Happening/Summoning.

There is definitely an argument to be made that that folk horror demands a certain aesthetic and atmosphere, and that this precludes Cats, as this structure, or one like it, CAN be found in non folk horror projects. But certainly, Cats fits the structure itself and, in my opinion, can absolutely be defined as folk horror, depending on your interpretation.

Also check out photos from early productions and then look me in the eye and tell me that there wasn’t supposed to be SOMETHING unholy and unsettling about the Jellicles

[thefuzzydave]

[drinkyourjuiceshelby]

[stupidbeecandle]

I lived and worked in a lighthouse at a previous job.  There was a thick line painted in a circle around the shack where the fog signal was kept.  The line represented how close you could get to the fog signal without experiencing physical harm in the form of eardrums shattering or worse.

Even in the house it was LOUD.  Probably the loudest thing I have ever experienced but at a normal, predictable interval.  You would begin to time your sentences with little pauses with the rest of the lighthouse crew so you would talk like this while making your………..HORN…………. tea and then carry on talking because you knew when it would go off.  It rattled the walls and the dishes in our cabinet.

At least one girl had died there. They kept photos of her everywhere “in honor of her sacrifice” because she had decided to take the winter watch alone and died in a storm where bounders the size of mini vans had been lifted out of the ocean and left scattered across the island, to say nothing of the ice chunks.  People weren’t allowed to be alone on the watch after that.

One day a dead moose washed up on shore and it took my entire crew all day but we managed to rig up a line to hang it up to dry because we thought having a moose skeleton in the house would really spice the living room up a bit.  It did.  Weird shit happens when six of you are left alone, like ALONE ALONE, no cell reception, no wifi, just a radio to contact the real world and not a lot of reason to do that.  People don’t go on lighthouse jobs if they want to stay connected, I’ve found.

That said Id do it all again, I really do treasure those days

[glowingghosty]

[mcnerds]

you know you could’ve just said “no they don’t have wifi” and that would’ve answered the question

[stupidbeecandle]

But then you wouldnt have known about the moose

[drag-on-dra-goon]

[adayinthelesbianlife-deactivate]

[cockteautwin-deactivated2022071]

as a trans man, i find it rather odd that so many in this community incessantly attempt to create a wedge between themselves and manhood, thereby “absolving” themselves of its concomitant privileges. it is bioessentialist (and frankly transmisogynist) rhetoric that trans men receive “female socialization” as—if you possess a shred of ideological consistency—this assertion pins trans women as benefactors of “male socialization”, which is patently false.

furthermore, as someone who lives stealth passing in my day to day life offline, i just find it wildly inaccurate to claim that i am not a recipient of male privilege. it reeks of dodging accountability

[cockteautwin-deactivated2022071]

for “transandrophobia” truthers, i sincerely believe the “transandrophobia” is coming from inside the house. you don’t want to be associated with manhood because you have misconstrued manhood as something innately evil, and you’re inadvertently harming trans women and transfeminine people because of this. living socially as a man entails innumerable privileges, this is patriarchy 101, and it is possible to reconcile the privilege you receive as a man with the marginalization you face as a trans one

[cockteautwin-deactivated2022071]

as a trans man, i find it rather odd that so many in this community incessantly attempt to create a wedge between themselves and manhood, thereby “absolving” themselves of its concomitant privileges. it is bioessentialist (and frankly transmisogynist) rhetoric that trans men receive “female socialization” as—if you possess a shred of ideological consistency—this assertion pins trans women as benefactors of “male socialization”, which is patently false.

furthermore, as someone who lives stealth passing in my day to day life offline, i just find it wildly inaccurate to claim that i am not a recipient of male privilege. it reeks of dodging accountability

[cockteautwin-deactivated2022071]

for “transandrophobia” truthers, i sincerely believe the “transandrophobia” is coming from inside the house. you don’t want to be associated with manhood because you have misconstrued manhood as something innately evil, and you’re inadvertently harming trans women and transfeminine people because of this. living socially as a man entails innumerable privileges, this is patriarchy 101, and it is possible to reconcile the privilege you receive as a man with the marginalization you face as a trans one

[starbright-cobweb]

Demon With A Glass Hand

here’s my controversial plant opinions of the day: your garden can be both native and non-native plants. Its fine. It is not evil to plant n

Going to start taking a shot for every "the most progressive thing you can do on environment is: absolutely nothing" take I see; this one is

"what if invasive species were fine?"

by definition, invasive species are a hazard to balanced ecosystems around them - its not just a plant from abroad, it's a plant or creature that will out-compete and decimate an area, with knock on effects throughout the system.

And the thing around native plants and species, specifically, is that they're often rare and vulnerable in their own context - being out-competed by man, by and large. That's why they're important - not some essence of nativeness, but because we're attempting to prevent extinctions.

I am also not a fan of "native species don't matter because rising temperatures don't even mean they'll be best adapted" - accepting climate change as something that's already happened, and so why worry; accepting that extinction is going to occur on an immense level, and so why worry.

I also want to add, with "You don't have to think about what to replace the species with" - generally, nature can do that. Leave a gap and nature will fill it with something - so long as you haven't used a weedkiller (which you shouldn't)

But this post is scattering keywords and sprinkling just enough doubt around to discourage you from a useful and straightforward thing you can do in your space and area. The language around invasive species isn't Great, but this is a practical problem with a tangible solution: you've just got to go out and pull them.

(There's different tactics for different species, and not all of them will be possible for you as an individual to tackle - but some will, and that just means doing the work)

I don't like the way the post talks about a tension between an imagined "unspoilt natural" - and the reality that humans impact their environment; but then goes on to argue that environmentalists should not proactively impact their environment by pulling troublesome plants. This post conceives of working with the landscape as a going backwards rather than as a forwards.

"Oh, the problem is capitalism btw. Our infrastructure and livelihoods depend on creating environments where invasives thrive and natives cannot." - but OP doesn't really explain how this is; sounds satisfying though. I think it's just incorrect. The out-of-placeness of invasive species are those who unluckily found a perfect niche in an unprepared ecosystem.

And also "Individuals can help on a very small scale by planting their yards in an environmentally friendly way but if a highway project and new industrial center is going in down the street… nothing is going to help the local environment except lobbying and supporting conservation organizations" that's not a terrible conclusion, but have you noticed that a highway project has...nothing to do with invasive species? I'm also not wild about people opposing direct action - pulling weeds - with something as passive as "lobbying" or "supporting charity organisations".

the second post raises some interesting questions, but these refer to rewilding. Rewilding is separate to action on invasive species. "What point do we rewild to?" is a conversation for any such rewilding project to have, and it should include both trained ecologists and locals. But invasive species will just wipe out anything its in competition with. There's not some vague xenophobic moralising going on; Giant African Land Snails will demolish native snails, Himalayan Balsam causes floods, Japanese Knotweed make houses unsafe to live in, and the presence of Grey Squirrels means the absence of Red Ones.

& as ever, I'm uncomfy with this vague gesture towards "caring about the environment is actually more racist" at the end. Invasive species are intertwined with colonialism: generally, colonisers bringing some shit to a place they are colonising, or taking something home (often to sell for profit). Its not "ignoring indigenous issues" to feel like the possums (brought in from abroad, endangering New Zealand trees and birds) are a problem, and IMO it's a bit sinister to be throwing this in there.

tl;dr - OP is a call for inaction deploying various strategies to raise a sense of uncertainty and anxiety on the topic, but doesn't seem to understand what an invasive species is. Also, community projects targeting invasive species are a straightforward way to do something useful if your mobility/dexterity is ok.

[heedra]

i think that unless you have experienced life while being actually dead broke or near it at least once, its hard to really grasp at how, in many places but in america in particular, ‘having money’ is the access card that allows you to participate, materially, in being fully human. even in non-crisis situations, situations where a paycheck is on the way, you have enough of some kind of food to make it, and you aren’t in any danger of losing shelter, even if you hardly spend any money when you do have it, the state of being completely without money is a state of  being hyperaware, constantly, of how much smaller your world is all of a sudden and how many basic aspects of mobility and enrichment are off limits to you. its profoundly psychologically agitating to self worth and well-being even sans the trauma of worse states of deprivation, and i don’t think a lot of people who have lived comfortably without this experience understand that there’s a critical difference between ‘having less money’ and ‘having no money’ when talking about related issues.

[quoms]

Plastic Recycling Doesn’t Work and Will Never Work

If the plastics industry is following the tobacco industry’s playbook, it may never admit to the failure of plastics recycling.

Americans support recycling. We do too. But although some materials can be effectively recycled and safely made from recycled content, plastics cannot. Plastic recycling does not work and will never work. The United States in 2021 had a dismal recycling rate of about 5 percent for post-consumer plastic waste, down from a high of 9.5 percent in 2014, when the U.S. exported millions of tons of plastic waste to China and counted it as recycled—even though much of it wasn’t.

Recycling in general can be an effective way to reclaim natural material resources. The U.S.’s high recycling rate of paper, 68 percent, proves this point. The problem with recycling plastic lies not with the concept or process but with the material itself.

The first problem is that there are thousands of different plastics, each with its own composition and characteristics. They all include different chemical additives and colorants that cannot be recycled together, making it impossible to sort the trillions of pieces of plastics into separate types for processing. For example, polyethylene terephthalate (PET#1) bottles cannot be recycled with PET#1 clamshells, which are a different PET#1 material, and green PET#1 bottles cannot be recycled with clear PET#1 bottles (which is why South Korea has outlawed colored PET#1 bottles.) High-density polyethylene (HDPE#2), polyvinyl chloride (PVC#3), low-density polyethylene (LDPE#4), polypropylene (PP#5), and polystyrene (PS#6) all must be separated for recycling.

Just one fast-food meal can involve many different types of single-use plastic, including PET#1, HDPE#2, LDPE#4, PP#5, and PS#6 cups, lids, clamshells, trays, bags, and cutlery, which cannot be recycled together. This is one of several reasons why plastic fast-food service items cannot be legitimately claimed as recyclable in the U.S.

Another problem is that the reprocessing of plastic waste—when possible at all—is wasteful. Plastic is flammable, and the risk of fires at plastic-recycling facilities affects neighboring communities—many of which are located in low-income communities or communities of color.

Unlike metal and glass, plastics are not inert. Plastic products can include toxic additives and absorb chemicals, and are generally collected in curbside bins filled with possibly dangerous materials such as plastic pesticide containers. According to a report published by the Canadian government, toxicity risks in recycled plastic prohibit “the vast majority of plastic products and packaging produced” from being recycled into food-grade packaging.

Yet another problem is that plastic recycling is simply not economical. Recycled plastic costs more than new plastic because collecting, sorting, transporting, and reprocessing plastic waste is exorbitantly expensive. The petrochemical industry is rapidly expanding, which will further lower the cost of new plastic.

Despite this stark failure, the plastics industry has waged a decades-long campaign to perpetuate the myth that the material is recyclable. This campaign is reminiscent of the tobacco industry’s efforts to convince smokers that filtered cigarettes are healthier than unfiltered cigarettes.

[bi-women-confess]

“China produces more rainbow flags than anyone. My nightmare is there is a factory with nearly slave labor, forced to live within the factory complex and get up every morning and have to churn out more and more rainbow tchotchkes.” He says he didn’t create the rainbow flag in order for others to profit off of “rainbow junk”.

He is horrified by some of the things he has seen. He says, “Walking down Castro Street, I can’t pay my rent, but I see rainbow dildos in the shop windows and rainbow keychains, rainbow rings, rainbow candles and so on.” He said it is similar to when the best music ends up as elevator music. He is gratified that the power of the rainbow caught on as rings, but that power can be diluted by over-commercialization.”

-Gilbert Baker, creator of the Pride Flag

[starbright-cobweb]

Attempts to critique consumer culture are dogpile magnets nowadays, a sort of compassionate "we can't wholly help our choices in a life and set of systems vastly beyond our control" which then gets popularised as "every consumer choice I make is actually radical"

(girlboss anticapitalism? Its the same energy as "this thing I am doing is feminist because I, a woman, am doing it")

When I decided to get one, I felt strongly about making my own pride flag. Mine is all 2nd hand cloths from the community shop, mostly pillowcases. Making your own pride flag is great. Its a beginner-level project, just rectangles and maths and french seams.

but more important is the feeling of knowing that you can opt out, actually; there's no "late stage capitalism" making you buy cruel stuff - there are other options, and this one feels powerful, the meditative act of making a flag is slow, and laboured, time to reflect on what else you want to make and create.

[internet-sentences]

Part of a professional education is being groomed to be okay with things. Mainstream economics grooms people into believing insane wealth inequality is fine, law students love to pontificate about how eager they’d be to defend Nazis. If you suggest to the professors hey maybe what you’re encouraging us to do isn’t morally okay the way you claim it is they frequently respond in weirdly emotional and hostile ways. I got an A in Ethics for Engineers at my defense contractor / DOE lab feeder school for arguing that child labor in impoverished countries was fine from a utilitarian perspective if the resulting economic benefit outweighed the harm done to the child.

[internet-sentences]

Part of the metagame of existing in meritocracy is tailoring your opinion and behaviors to the person who casts judgment. Engineering students make fun of the classes taught by women who talk about feminism and pass around stock feminist-coded essays to slightly change for the guaranteed A. This can cause ideological confusion but more importantly I think it teaches people to treat ethics and ideologies as abstract argumentative tools that can be dropped or switched out as needed

[evilsoup]

Gaining acceptance into graduate school or medical school and achieving a PhD or MD and becoming a psychologist or psychiatrist means jumping through many hoops, all of which require much behavioral and attentional compliance to authorities, even to those authorities that one lacks respect for. The selection and socialization of mental health professionals tends to breed out many anti-authoritarians. Having steered the higher-education terrain for a decade of my life, I know that degrees and credentials are primarily badges of compliance. Those with extended schooling have lived for many years in a world where one routinely conforms to the demands of authorities. Thus for many MDs and PhDs, people different from them who reject this attentional and behavioral compliance appear to be from another world—a diagnosable one. I have found that most psychologists, psychiatrists, and other mental health professionals are not only extraordinarily compliant with authorities but also unaware of the magnitude of their obedience. And it also has become clear to me that the anti-authoritarianism of their patients creates enormous anxiety for these professionals, and their anxiety fuels diagnoses and treatments. In graduate school, I discovered that all it took to be labeled as having “issues with authority” was to not kiss up to a director of clinical training whose personality was a combination of Donald Trump, Newt Gingrich, and Howard Cosell. When I was told by some faculty that I had “issues with authority,” I had mixed feelings about being so labeled. On the one hand, I found it quite amusing, because among the working-class kids whom I had grown up with, I was considered relatively compliant with authorities. After all, I had done my homework, studied, and received good grades. However, while my new “issues with authority” label made me grin because I was now being seen as a “bad boy,” it also very much concerned me about just what kind of a profession that I had entered. Specifically, if somebody such as myself was being labeled with “issues with authority,” what were they calling the kids I grew up with who paid attention to many things that they cared about but didn’t care enough about school to comply there? Well, the answer soon became clear.

Why Anti-Authoritarians are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill

In Bruce Levine's career he as spoken with hundreds of people diagnosed with ODD & ADHD. An astonishing number of these people are also anti

[stagemanagerssaygo]

The BBC is releasing over 16,000 sound effects for free download

The BBC is releasing over 16,000 sound effects for free download

The BBC have released their incredible, expansive library of bizarre and obscure sound effects, all available for free download.

[wearemage]

THIS will be sooo good for my soundboard. Those online sessions are about to become even better :D

First music, then voice modifiers… Now this. Perfect.

Also, I’m pretty sure it can be used for a lot of other activities.

[musicalhell]

Yay, no more Soundbible!

[the-pun-jukebox]

Yellowstone National Park share a massive catalogue of ambient sounds

Yellowstone National Park are in possession of a treasure trove of ambient samples which they've released into public domain for your sampli

[stagemanagerssaygo]

The direct link: https://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/photosmultimedia/soundlibrary.htm

[patentlyabsurdrpgideas]

For any content creators who’d like it!

[cinemapphic]

LET’S GROOVE! an ode to unsettling dance scenes