#guy standing

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DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY | 1934 dir. Mitchell Leisen

[gatutor]

Frances Drake-Tom Brown-Guy Standing "I´d give my life" 1936, de Edwin L. Marin.

[blixabargelds]

plz say more about clegan cnc for the wip ask game

CW implied past noncon (NOT between them)

hii it's potentially unsafe, definitely insane, uhh consensual? complicated! they don't know what they're doing or what a safeword is! but their dicks are hard and they be moaning soo.... gale wants to put up a fight now because he couldn't risk doing so in the stalag insert upside-down smile emoji here x

“Bucky-” “Tell me to stop again.” Gale swallows. He tests the strength of John’s hold. He isn’t going easy.  “Stop,” he says, quiet suddenly, and hoarse.  John pulls out of his body just a little. For an awful moment Gale thinks he’s actually stopping, before he changes his approach, fucks back in. Gale traps a groan behind his teeth.  “Say it again.” He can’t quite breathe. He’s rock hard, leaking precum onto his stomach in a silvery smear.  “Stop,” he croaks, shifting his wrists, John holding onto them harder in response. He pulls back out, the drag hot, slick and long, the angle stretching Gale out and making him sweat. John thrusts back in. Gale moans loud. “Jesus, fuck, please, stop-” John frees one of Gale’s wrists, and clamps a hand over his mouth.  “I will this time,” John whispers. “Just ask.”  Gale tries. The words are inaudible, swallowed by the work-rough skin of John’s big palm. “Goddamn,” John smiles down at him. “Well ain’t that just too bad?”

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Death Takes a Holiday (1934) Mitchell Leisen

April 7th 2024

[aintthatakick]

- I had hoped to make your last evening, uh...

[coopmillandmarch]

"Volunteers en route to their first meeting, here are five of fourteen Paramount players who tendered their services to Adolph Zukor, as Honorary Captains of the various sales districts during the company’s Silver Jubilee in his honor. Left to right, Shirley Ross, Sir Guy Standing, Dorothy Lamour, Ray Milland and Eleanore Whitney." 1936

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35C3 - The Precariat: A Disruptive Class for Disruptive Times.

“The combination of the ongoing technological revolution, globalisation and what are usually called 'neo-liberal' economic policies has generated a global system of rentier capitalism in which property rights have supplanted free market principles and in which a new global class structure has taken shape.

The 20th century income distribution system has broken down irretrievably, and a new mass class, the precariat has been growing dramatically fast in every part of the world. 

What are the deeper reasons for these developments?

 How does an ecologically sustainable strategy look like?

Is it possible to restore a balanced market economy in which inequalities and insecurities will lessen and in which the drift to populist and even neo-fascist politics will be reversed?

 This talk will try to provide answers.“

[criticalinvert]

The precariat experiences the four A’s – anger , anomie, anxiety and alienation. The anger stems from frustration at the seemingly blocked avenues for advancing a meaningful life and from a sense of relative deprivation. Some would call that envy, but to be surrounded and constantly bombarded with the trappings of material success and the celebrity culture is bound to induce seething resentment. The precariat feels frustrated not only because a lifetime of flexi-jobs beckons, with all the insecurities that come with them, but also because those jobs involve no construction of trusting relationships built up in meaningful structures or networks. The precariat also has no ladders of mobility to climb, leaving people hovering between deeper self-exploitation and disengagement. […] Ever since at least the work of Emile Durkheim, we have understood that anomie is a feeling of passivity born of despair. This is surely intensified by the prospect of artless, career-less jobs. Anomie comes from a listlessness associated with sustained defeat, compounded by the condemnation lobbed at many in the precariat by politicians and middle-class commentators castigating them as lazy, directionless, undeserving, socially irresponsible or worse. For welfare claimants to be told that ‘talking therapies’ are the way forward is patronising and easily seen as such by those exhorted to opt for them. The precariat lives with anxiety – chronic insecurity associated not only with teetering on the edge, knowing that one mistake or one piece of bad luck could tip the balance between modest dignity and being a bag lady, but also with a fear of losing what they possess even while feeling cheated by not having more. People are insecure in the mind and stressed, at the same time ‘underemployed’ and ‘overemployed’. They are alienated from their labour and work, and are anomic, uncertain and desperate in their behaviour. People who fear losing what they have are constantly frustrated. They will be angry but usually passively so. The precariatised mind is fed by fear and is motivated by fear. Alienation arises from knowing that what one is doing is not for one’s own purpose or for what one could respect or appreciate; it is simply done for others, at their behest. This has been regarded as a defining feature of the proletariat. But those in the precariat experience several special injections, including a feeling of being fooled – told they should be grateful and ‘happy’ that they are in jobs and should be ‘positive’. They are told to be happy and cannot see why. They experience what Bryceson (2010) has called ‘failed occupationality’, which can only have an adverse psychological effect. People in such circumstances are likely to experience social disapproval and a profound lack of purpose. And lack of occupation creates an ethical vacuum.

Standing, Guy. (2011). The Precariat: The Dangerous New Class