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[thepeacockangel]

So After Googling To Find More Chinese Detective Novels To Read

I have noticed something REALLY weird. There are all these articles like "THE CCP HATES DETECTIVE STORIES BECAUSE THEY'RE CAPITALIST OR WHATEVER" and then like looking at Chinese TV programming and it's like "Detective show! Detective show! Detective show!" and I'm like... why the fuck would you lie about that?

Like you know I am no apologist for auth-coms but what the fuck? Why would you lie about that?

#China #communism #politics #detective stories #propoganda

[thepeacockangel]

What Many People Don't Understand

Is just how good Chinese detective stories are.

Like that is a culture that has been refining the detective story for centuries and it shows.

#detective stories #detectives #gong'an #judge dee #mystery #chinese literature

[thepeacockangel]

I think... so like as I have said rock n' rollness and coolness are subtly different things, and like Lou Reed is cooler than Iggy Pop and Iggy Pop is more rock n' roll than Lou Reed, and I think Rock n' Rollness like probably maxes out in your 20s, but coolness actually maxes out later in life... because it takes time and effort to really refine your taste and also to really stop giving a shit.

#coolness #rock n' roll

[thepeacockangel]

Timeline of Marital Commitment (Universal, not at all personal)

meet -> date -> Start doing initiatic ritual magic together -> become primaries -> move in together -> acquire several babies -> engagement -> marriage -> several more babies -> consider selling the duplicates in your record collection

#records #humor #marriage #vinyl #vinyl records

[thepeacockangel]

If the Supreme court rules it would be allowable for a president to have a political rival assassinated Joe Biden has the opportunity to do something really funny.

(To be clear I do not like or approve of Joe Biden)

#politics #humor

[thepeacockangel]

One of my bad takes is that if you're going to be a Christian you should generally abide by the theology of your denomination

and not both claim Christianity and then also be weird and heretical in the least logically consistent way possible.

(unless you're doing folk magic)

but like Protestants should not be doing sympathetic magic ass shit like unity candles and sand ceremonies at their weddings

Catholics should actually confess all their shit when they go to confession and not be like "Well I did buy this pagan idol to worship for sex reasons, but I feel weird about fully embracing it because then I might be damned" because my good bitch unless you confess properly you are damned.

Like either do it or don't.

(That said if you have an internally consistent theology of your own on moral grounds, like those weird Baptists who were like "Gay unmarried couples can live together before marriage because gay marriage isn't legal yet so they're married in the eyes of the Lord" before gay marriage was legalized in the US are fine)

And you can always form your own weird denomination... I just want your theology to be internally consistent.

#me #hot takes #bad takes #theology

[thepeacockangel]

Unity Candles, Sand Ceremonies and Other Wedding Shit of That Nature

Should be banned in most Protestant ceremonies. It's sympathetic magic. We all know it's sympathetic magic and it's not my fault your stupid theology doesn't allow for any meaningful ritual. Convert if you don't like it. And if you're a member of a smells and bells branch of Protestantism then you shouldn't need that corny shit because you already get to have ritual which can be theologically meaningful in the system of meaning you exist within.

#hot takes #weddings #theology #protestantism #unity candle

[thepeacockangel]

It is an unconscionable violation of my gay rights

that the right-wing has forced me into a position where I actually have to express my belief that badly dressed queers deserve to exist and not be denied access to community or medical care, because society should have progressed to a point where I should be able to express the sentiment that those overalls merit execution without anyone taking the idea seriously.

#hot takes #lgbtq

[thepeacockangel]

The Fetist: A weird Gay Pink film, pretty fun, very like murder-homos, very weird S&M, would watch again

wait guys. reblog this and tell me what the last movie you watched was. bonus points if you add a short review <333

[thepeacockangel]

I hate having to maintain a social media presence for work

It's so exhausting pretending to be a woman, but c'est la vie. Anyway consider joining me here, I've been having good luck there for awhile: https://www.sextpanther.com/apply?id=64126

#sw #life #prodomme

[thepeacockangel]

The Truth Is They Might Be Giants

Are much cooler than a large segment of their audience and that's deeply sad.

#they might be giants

[thepeacockangel]

I am arguing with a client about Cuba (he loves Miami and thinks Cuba is awful)

and a guy on youtube about the Wampanoag political and agricultural systems and he's accusing me of being anti-white because I think they're better than the English monarchy.

God the American educational system is bad.

#me #politics

[thepeacockangel]

Incidentally, just to clarify, the fact that they give zero fucks does not make them charming or pleasant, they're rude because they've never had any reason to be polite a lot of the time, and most of them are indeed actually assholes with a lot of unexamined prejudices

The "Old Money" Aesthetic

The social media "old money" aesthetic is so ridiculously new money it's hilarious to me. Actual old money aesthetic is being full Goblin mode all the time while living in basically a palace. You wear great grandma's Hermes scarf as a bandana while you weed the garden because old money's least favorite activity is having to actually shop for anything. A real old money look are like a stained, misshapen cashmere sweater and dirt caked gum boots. The old money car is like a reliable, four wheel drive hatchback that is absolutely caked in mud and dog hair. Old money aesthetic is letting your 10 giant hounds chew the leg off a priceless antique writing desk and not bothering to have it repaired until you need to write something because you literally have never given a shit. Old money aesthetic is having no fear of death because you've literally never thought about it. You will go fistfight a gorilla because you are bored. You have never had to worry about anything ever or consider what anyone thought of you and so you're just... fully doing whatever. You are busy breeding a new species of begonia and are profoundly inbred but in a weirdly strapping hearty way.

I'm from that world peripherally and like... people don't understand that never having to consider what anyone else thought about you or about anything really profoundly psychologically affects you in weird ways.

One story that illustrates this is my ex-husband's family was friends with a very old Earl, and the new money section of the family was showing off their daughter to the town worthies, and she was at law school and the Earl was there reading a newspaper, and someone asked the girl "Do you have a boyfriend at university?" and she was like "Oh goodness no!" and the Earl puts down his paper and says "Well, I did, he ran off with the butler, his wife was furious, of course it could never have worked between them being from different classes and all" and that's what old money's like. Incidentally that was a man in his 80s, and this was like ten years ago so... you can imagine when that was

[thepeacockangel]

My Proposed Program For Legalizing Sex Work That SWERFs Cannot Argue With

Sex work is perfectly legal. Paying for sex is perfectly legal. The only additional thing is that sex workers are empowered by law to execute clients if they feel like it, no questions asked, just gotta show evidence they were your john and you can walk.

I think this would vastly improve society. If you'd prefer the Nordic model to this, why?

Actually, this should possibly apply to all employee/boss relationships.

#humor #sex work

[thepeacockangel]

Also it kinda... makes people who are being victimized be like "Well they're not a total monster so they can't be abusive" which is... bad actually also

[thepeacockangel]

I enjoy it as a meme, and think there are aspects of it that have some correlation to seasonal birth patterns and shit, but I don't think the planets are the mechanism of action. The stars are a clock that strikes at the hour, but not the mechanism by which day turns to night (in this metaphor, obviously they are the mechanism by which day turns to night in reality, but I don't think they're the cause of destiny or whatever)

a lot of queer people i know in real life are either into or open to talking about astrology but online i think ive noticed a lot more people who dislike astrology and im super curious to see if that holds up.

please reblog for sample size and elaborate in the tags if you want!

[thepeacockangel]

I Really Miss When Hipster Was a Word For A Cultural Type Rather Than A Time Specific Subculture

Like a catch-all word for "artsy type". Bohemian has become a word for culturally appropriative hippie. Alternative feels weird because that seems like it belongs perhaps more to the Mall Goth than the New Yorker in the grubby apartment with the record collection of Disco obscurities and weird French shit, or the person who knows all about the Situationists (which is not to say the latter are superior to Mall Goths but like... they're different people, they are different milieus) but like... there used to be a word for that, and maybe I'm wrong but now it kind of feels like there isn't? Like people who are nerds but about art? Avantgarde appreciators?

Or is it that this cultural type has all but vanished with intensifying gentrification?

#hipsters #bohemians