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[clotheshorsepodcast]

🎼🎼🎼 On the Tenth Day of Slow Gifting, my cat Brenda said to me...DON'T FORGET THE PACKAGING!

Of course you knew I was going to bring up wrapping paper, gift bags, boxes, and all of the trims. Because I'm obsessed with packaging waste! And that includes all of the gift wrapping. I know it's what inside the packaging that counts...but to be fair, I also love an aesthetically pleasing gift presentation.

🎁 The theme of #SlowGifting is rethinking our approaches to everything gift-related, and that includes how we present them.

🎁 I did a bunch of reading about more sustainable gift wrapping options, ranging from a little weird (like "put it in a bucket") to extra dramatic ("wrap it in a rug"). Whatever you choose to do, consider the extended life of the wrapping/box/"vessel."

🎁 Wrapping paper and bows tend to have a short life that goes a little something like: buy-->wrap-->unwrap-->trash. Think about the materials (trees, oil, coatings, colors) that go into making that wrapping, the trucks that transported it around from factory to warehouse to store, and even the packaging that the packaging is packaged in. Whoa!

🎁 Let's break that cycle of "near-future garbage" and remember that nothing is disposable, not even wrapping paper and packaging.

[captyns]

yard ain't gonna work itself // for kiijkasa on bksy

[daniela--anna]

Miniature di Mara Swelt

[cipheramnesia]

Scoops your meal off the table and swallows it whole in one bite.

[thegayneapigs]

“I chew on everything.” - Leo

[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

[terresauvage]

Emily Pangnerk Illuitok

Birds Nesting in Cliffs, c.2007

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Born in 1943, Illuitok was an Inuit master sculptor from Kugaaruk. She created detailed, delicate ivory/bone carvings that mostly represented hunting or nature scenes. Illuitok often worked with found materials that she then shaped into works of art. She passed away in 2012.

The above work shows birds nesting and is made of whale bone and ivory. Notice the little detail on the bottom right of a polar bear hunting some seals.

[setulose]

I'm also like begging every perisex person on here to remember intersex people exist. If you're talking about people with a specific sex characteristic please just say "people with [specific sex characteristic]". Nothing makes you look stupider than saying "afabs" when you mean "people with uteruses" or saying "men and pre-op transfems" when you mean "people with testes". There is already a vested social interest in oppressing intersex people please do not contribute to making them invisible.

[setulose]

To that end. Stop saying things like "no one is performing surgery on children" in response to transphobes claiming that doctors are mutilating trans kids. It's true that it's rare for perisex trans minors to request gender affirming surgical procedures and be approved. But cosmetic surgical procedures are absolutely performed on intersex children, often infants, without their knowledge or consent. Because the argument these people are making with the "doctors mutilating kids" thing is NOT actually about children's medical rights, as they would love everyone to believe. It is about forcing children through any means necessary to conform to a binary sex model.

[karrakazz]

Ive been saying this for years. You need to understand blue eyeshadow to understand anything at all. Today, blue eyeshadow is regarded as a "choice." Its either trendy or tacky or outdated, depending on the shade and style of application. But for about 30 years in the late 20th century, maybe the 50s through the 80s, blue eyeshadow was regarded as subtle, conservative, middle-of-the-road. Feminine. A "correct" shade to use. Brown or beige eyeshadow was the new thing, too subtle and casual to look like a "full face" of makeup. My grandmother (an enthusiastically conventional woman) has only ever worn blue eyeshadow.

The last 10 or 15 years have seen a real takeover of neutrals, beiges and grays and whites, in consumer goods and interior design. We've all seen the car color chart. Other people smarter than me have discussed the reasons for this, the caution brought on by economic instability. Nobody wants to paint their walls green because their home isnt a place to get comfortable, its an investment that will need to be made palatable for a new buyer (and why give yourself the extra task of repainting when youll have so much else to do when you move).

Neutral overload (and "clean design," with its lack of ornamentation) is aimed at creating a consistent, timeless, elegant look. Its adherents dont understand that this is also a trend. This subtle, conservative, middle-of-the-road design choice will look tacky and ostentatious someday. And necause you value timelessness, this will embarrass you.

[willgrahamscock]

what I think will happen if I message my mutuals

[moldbreakfast]

the image was making me really sad so i drew the little guy being taken care of

[r4bbitmorgue]

To be loved is to be changed

[covid-safer-hotties]

[onlytiktoks]

[lezbadeez]

Holy mother of curb theory those are GOOD

See what happens when we do things for disabled people? We get shot like this that's just better for *everyone* AND accommodates for wheelchair users

[muffinlance]

The hoodies are $59. That is straight up a normal hoodie price that is AMAZING

Creating adaptive clothing and accessories designed to bring joy and confidence while increasing your quality of life. Discover products to

[ordinarytalk]

Also noting that this line has a lot of clothing that works for people who need easy chest access or have limited upper body mobility, like if you are recovering from surgery or doing chemo

[brightlotusmoon]

[theyshapedlikefriends]

Kākāpō by Banmof

[mimisillythesecond]

[filthyprotozoan]

astonishing how good it can feel to get some chores done sometimes. you’ll be sitting there like damn i am some type of horrid little smeagol like creature who should be crushed to death. but then you do some laundry and you’re like wrow. im actually gods most fuckable soldier.

[mothmire]

That one particular bts picture made me sob, that’s his real dad right here 🥹

[byjove]

during the Victorian occultism movement I would have been the guy who giggled all the way through seances

[thestereotypebuster]

Arthur Conan Doyle subtly, but very firmly kicking you under the table.

[byjove]

man was 6’1” and built like a brick shithouse if he looked at me sideways I’d collapse like an aluminum can

[aeoliantectrix]

Mans was WHAT

[byjove]

here’s a picture of him standing next to Harry Houdini, who was 5’6”

[gay-debord]

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[javert]

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i feel like we have lost the plot here completely. there are a great many disabilities that make people incapable of learning to write (or use language) at all

[no-sharks-on-the-sun]

a disability is a thing that you get diagnosed with so you can post about it online. if it actually disables you that's probably something else

[defectivegembrain]

[ID: a screenshotted post reading: "Useless addition but also there is. No disability excuse for being unable to write.]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#Off the top of my head. Parkinson’s. cerebral palsy. paralysis#just to name the first few#amputation/lack of limb. many developmental disorders. carpal tunnel. previous wrist injuries. spinal problems. nerve issues.#like…

A minor concussion can make it painful and dangerous to read or write for weeks, months or, if you're REALLY unlucky, permanently. You can tap your head on the edge of a cabinet door while standing up too quickly and be unable to write. Losing literacy due to disability (or never being able to gain it in the first place) is extremely common.