i will never be over MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name) by Lil Nas X and i don't think anyone ever should be. the song is explicitly and unapologetically about gay sex. the video is him as adam and eve getting kicked out of the garden of eden. he's killed by a butt plug. he ascends to heaven but decides to pole dance down to hell instead to give satan a lap dance and then kills him and becomes the king of hell in his place. he plays satan also. it was number 1 on the charts and it was being listened to and hitting the top ten if not number 1 on spotify for like every country in the world. he was 21 he's black he's queer it's camp as hell. for a week there i felt like i was living in a dream
LISTEN. attention trafficshipping community I have a song that Each And Everyone of you has to listen to, no matter what ship. will be even more cool if someone in your ship won the life series but that's not a requirement. just fucking TRUST ME. LISTEN
NOW, WE'RE SO YOUNG BUT WE'RE PROBABLY GONNA DIE / IT'S SO FUN, WE'RE SO GOOD AT SELLING LIES / WE LOOK SO GOOD AND WE NEVER EVEN TRY / GET YOUR MONEY FROM A TRUST FUND, DO IT ALL THE TIME!
Memories that I still keep in the back of my mind regarding crossover skills between sports...the wall climbing place I used to go to (I go to a new one now) had a parkour set, with a web rope and gymnastics blocks and soft landing pads. I am not good at parkour but I liked flopping around on the landing pads and throwing myself at the blocks and swinging on the bars.
When I was there, a guy was trying to land a forward cartwheel & flip and he would get almost all the way there and then eat shit (it was very funny to watch,) and one of the reasons he kept eating shit was because he'd keep his head ? In a weird spot? I'm not entirely sure how to describe it, but I looked at it and it just. Clicked in my head that he wasn't spot-picking.
So in ballet when you do turns you pick a spot as you are turning and then whip your head around and hit that same looking spot. It allows neater turns and better balance.
And he'd tried, I'm not kidding, like, twenty or thirty times by this point. And every time he'd done it I'd seen him do the head thing. Not tuck in. Not spot.
So I was like. Hey. I know I can't do what you're doing, and I don't know if this is your actual problem, but I think maybe this technique from my dance lessons may help you get fully through your somersault?
And like. He didn't have to trust me. I was like 20! But he did pull his head in and spotted, and flipped (and landed!) and whenever I think about that I think about the crossover in skills between different sports, in getting one skill that makes you better at something so entirely unrelated and how sometimes you don't even realise that something you've learnt somewhere else helps you with this new thing. Which I just think is so cool! And so fun! And how many other physical skills do people have and learn that exist in crossover? Did this ballet technique help him land better in the future too? It fascinates and delights me. New things influenced by old knowledge.
Anyway knowing about the teenage mutant ninja turtles just helped me identify a fraud case at work. 🫡✌️
Decided to listen to an absolute banger and found what is probably the single most brilliant fucking SV burn and funniest comment I've ever bothered to read
"oh my god party junkie is SUCH a SEXUAL and HORNY son-" deadballP had to get a cease and desist letter from Crypton Future Media to tone down the lyrics of his early songs because of how insanely sexual they were.
"Did you know in 1972 a song was made to mimic what english sounds like to non-english-speakers?"
Us, who speak english but also have a fucking sensory processing disorder and/or are autistic, with weird empathy: "We mean, we didn't know that, but also this is also what english sounds like to english speakers with an audio processing disorder too, is there a way to commiserate with y'all without this becoming Weird(tm)?"