#i was so obsessed with them in middle school

[thedickcavettshow]

Can you tell us a little more about Joan Baez's girlfriend Kimmie? I'm curious about who she was and you seem to be the expert

Hiiii sorry this took so long to answer lol. Turns out I have a lot to say on this subject. Kimmie is a fascinating person and has lived a pretty wild life.

I'll just preface this by saying firstly I'm not an expert, I've just done a lot of research out of curiosity. Secondly, there is an absolute TON of misinformation out there about Kimmie, so everything that I'll tell you is stuff I learned from quotes directly from Joan, Kimmie, and other people they knew. The majority of this information is coming from Joan's memoir And a Voice to Sing With (1987) and Kimmie's interviews in the book Pearl: The Obsessions and Passions of Janis Joplin by Ellis Amburn (1992).

Joan Baez met Kim Chappell in the early 60s, when Kim was 17 years old and just freshly graduated from high school. Kim was a California surfer girl and Joan describes her by saying she "blew in, fresh, tan, skittery, ragged, shy, rebellious" and describes having sex with her as being "superb and utterly natural".

in 1962 Joan bought Kim a motorcycle and they rented a house together and they both adopted Doberman pinscher puppies. They often appeared in public together pretending to just be platonic friends, and Joan brought Kim along with her on tour, and Kim served as Joan's assistant and took care of her records. Kim also wrote some songs for her. They broke up after Kim trashed their bedroom because she got jealous of Joan's interest in a man she met on tour, but they remained friends after breaking up and Kim continued to work as Joan's assistant for a while. The time they spent together was positive, definitely one of the most pleasant of Joan's relationships, and Joan has said that being together taught her a lot about herself and about love and sex. Kim said of Joan in 1992 "Joan Baez was my first lover and brought me out and I still haven't recovered from that woman".

In the mid 60s, Kim became a heavy drug user, and in 1965 at a party with Jerry Garcia she took a little too much acid and climbed to the roof with an axe and began chopping the roof apart, then got onto her motorcycle (the one Joan bought her) and drove 120 mph to Joan’s house, climbed in through a window, and passed out in the middle of Joan’s living room. Joan called Kim's mother and they brought Kim to the hospital, and unfortunately that event pretty much ended their friendship.

While in the hospital, Kim was introduced to heroin, and immediately became very addicted. After being released from the hospital, Kim met a woman named Peggy Casetra (a name that is probably familiar/infamous to anyone who knows a bit about Janis Joplin) and they fell very much in love with each other. Peggy owned a boutique in San Francisco called Mnasidika (Sappho reference) and was also a heavy drug user.

Kim met Janis Joplin backstage at a show at the very beginning of Janis' career, and Janis was instantly attracted to her and pursued her. Since Kim and Peggy were not monogamous, Kim accepted her advances, although she felt that Janis would get along better with Peggy and decided to introduce them the next day. Both Kim and Peggy became close friends with Janis, and Janis was extremely enamored with them specifically because of Kim's relationship with Joan Baez. Janis and Peggy became lovers, and Janis’ friend Sunshine Nichols says "When Janis described Peggy to me, the first thing she said was, 'Well, Peggy's lover was involved with Joan Baez.'" The fact that she dated Joan was one of the first things Kim had told Janis when they first met. Apparently she got a kick out of telling people about it. Peggy and Kim were still together during the entire time that Peggy was seeing Janis, which at first Kim was fine with, but Janis eventually came to wanting Peggy to leave Kim for her and that soured the friendship between Kim and Janis slightly.

Kim and Peggy did not break up, even though they had a lot of issues with their relationship, which were not all caused by Janis. Kim was apparently a terrible driver, which really angered Peggy and they fought about driving which frequently escaladed into full-on fistfights. Kim was always driving way too fast and at one point she drove straight through a brand new $1500 fence. The fact that they were both extremely addicted to heroin obviously didn't help. They both did a lot of stupid stuff while high. This is a quote from Kim about a time she broke several of her ribs in the late 60s because she was trying to go to the bathroom late at night but was so high that she ended up on the second floor balcony instead: "I sat down on what I thought was the toilet, but it was thin air and I fell off the second-story porch, landing in a forked sapling. It was easily a ten- or twelve-foot drop. I lay there in the tree, stone naked, and I remember seeing stars and saying to myself, 'Oh, what a beautiful night!' Then I passed out."

Even though they had their issues Kim and Peggy were very openly and proudly a lesbian couple, so everyone around them knew about it. They spoke about being gay pretty openly, and they had a classic butch/femme dynamic (Kim was butch) that they made no attempt to conceal. The members of Janis' band and the other people she worked with strongly disapproved of them, and Albert Grossman, Janis’ manager (and Bob Dylan’s), tried very hard to keep the two of them away from Janis, because he felt that they were a bad influence on her and didn’t want her to get involved with “the gay thing”. Obviously he was not successful with this. Unfortunately their openness about being gay had a pretty negative effect on the two of them after Janis’ death.

After Janis' death, a lot of the people Kim and Peggy knew blamed them because they already had negative feelings about them and they were a pretty easy target. This was exacerbated in 1973 when Going Down With Janis, a "biography" about Janis' life written by a ghostwriter named Dan Knapp under Peggy's name was published. Peggy had agreed to let Knapp write a biography about Janis and had told him many stories about their time together, but Knapp took those stories and twisted them into something unrecognizable that just existed to shock and scandalize readers. Going Down With Janis did garner a bit of a cult following for being notoriously depraved and shocking, but unfortunately it's mostly made up. The book was essentially just Knapp's degrading sex fantasies about Janis written as though they were true facts and written from Peggy’s perspective. When the book was released, Peggy was horrified by its contents because she loved Janis and had only told Knapp positive stories about their time together. The book painted Peggy and Kim as Janis’ abusers and implicitly blamed them for Janis’ death.

After the book was published, Kim and Peggy faced enormous backlash from pretty much everyone they knew which led to Kim almost being murdered in an attempt at revenge. One night in the mid 70s while Kim, Peggy, and some friends were at a lesbian bar in Los Angeles called Bacchanal-70, Janis' former heroin dealer assaulted Kim in the alley behind the bar and stabbed her three times in the chest, puncturing both her lungs, and then left her there to die. Luckily, Kim was able to make it back inside the bar and she was rushed to the hospital. She was in critical condition but she managed to pull through and made a full recovery. She and Peggy split up for good after that.

By the 1990s, Kim managed to get sober after a very long and debilitating addiction that almost killed her many times. She said in 1992, "I finally managed to get clean; though I still enjoy marijuana and a glass of wine with a meal, I'm careful not to abuse."

This is the most recent picture of her that exists in the public, taken in the early 90s. There isn't any information about her since then.

#sorry that this is so long winded and tbh not well written lmao #I just wanted to include all the relevant info about her and. theres a hell of a lot of relevant info about her #joan baez #janis joplin

[whollyjoly]

i just have a feeling / you're better off than you think you are

(song insp.)

#maybe im just obsessed with the idea that buck has thought to himself for so long that maybe he doesnt get to be happy #and now what if he does? what happens then? #fuck i am so obsessed with these two actually #buck deserves something soft!! and tender!! #THEM #and the way tommy looks at him just kills me actually #them #bonus lyrics include: “i think there's a reason / you could even get this far” #“what if the voice in your head is ten years old? / and you've been trying to prove yourself right since middle school?” #“what then? / what then?” #anyways the buck coding KILLS ME #bucktommy #kinkley #tevan #tuck #otp: better ways to get your attention #tommy kinard #evan buckley #911 on abc #911 abc #911 spoilers #em's edits #special shoutout to the clown car my beloveds #mine

[sonknuxadow]

theres multiple reasons i dont like s/urgeamy but one of the things ive seen people do with it that annoys me a bit is the idea that surge and kit are going to become good because surge is gonna fall in love with amy and thats gonna be her only motivation to change.. and im sorry but am i the only one who thinks it would suck so bad for such fun antagonists to instantly switch sides just because one of them was "fixed" by romance and no other reason

#that is not an appealing storyline to me at least not for something like sonic where i dont wanna see canon romance #i DO think it could be interesting if amy being nice to surge and kit is gonna somehow be the start of a redemption arc for them #but not in a romantic way . not in an instant ''well i guess i have to switch sides now because i have a crush on sonics friend'' way #and ive seen some people assume that surge and kit are actually being serious when they come to the restoration as if theyve changed #i definitely dont think this is the case i dont think theyre good guys now #at least not yet it is possible they could calm down one day. but i dont think thats whats going on right now #i dont get why people are so obsessed with shipping amy with everyone anyway #shes just a little guy she should be doing average middle school aged girl activities like playing neopets or whatever #not entering serious romantic relationships . come on #especially considering most of her friends are a bit older than her #also the constant ''haha surge stole sonics girlfriend'' posts are getting on my nerves too #like my reasons for not liking the ship + the fact that the joke has already been made a million times aside. #it just always annoys me seeing amy be reduced to sonics girlfriend when theyre not even dating

[morrigan-sims]

Return of the King

My headphones died with 47 minutes left in RotK, and they take two hours to charge. So how do I occupy my time? Build a Minas Tirith throne room, and also set up a battlefield.

#these are completely unedited sorry. #someday I will edit them and make the color grading match the fight at the Black Gate. Make the sky black and red instead of purple etc. #but today is not that day. #ts4 #the sims 4 #ts4 fantasy #sims 4 fantasy #lotr #return of the king #lord of the rings #fandom sims #I'm sorry to everyone who has had to witness me falling headfirst into a new obsession lmao. #I read the books in middle school and forgot literally everything about them. #so now I'm finally watching the movies and having the time of my fucking life.

[crocuspetals]

twdg x warrior cats 🐱

#twdg #the walking dead game #telltale the walking dead #warrior cats #erin hunter warriors #violet twdg #louis twdg #clementine twdg #aj twdg #art #digital art #procreate #catified #catified art #animalified art #haven’t read a warriors book in years (aka I refuse to because I don’t like what they’ve done with them) #but middle school rhodey was obsessed with them #they’re also the reason why I draw so many cats and as a result can’t really draw humans

[toaster-fire-art]

There's something to be said for shades of gray

(they have consumed my every thought)

#bare with my i'm going through it #my art #toasterfireart #different than the usual but idc #good omens #crowley #aziraphale #ineffable husbands #aziracrow #im unwell #i'm obsessed #a healthy amount but yk #i read the book and i binge watched etc etc #i love them so much #they're so silly #i can't #i would have been a differet person if i chose to read good omens as a kid instead of neverwhere but both are so special to me #i read neverwhere in middle school and i adopted my gender from islington #so now i think angels and go: genderless #and here i am #gay

[bo0zey]

me in 8th grade turning in book reports about a splitting of the mind, the anatomy of a fall, the unholyverse series & the dove keeper

#y’all the GRIP these stories had on me growing up??????? life changing #y’all in middle school i was so obsessed w ASOTM i printed out all the chapters and put them in a binder to read #pretty sure i did the same thing w the unholyverse trilogy lol #my mom was like where tf is all the printer ink n i was like ahaha idkkkk lozlzzz #asotm #a splitting of the mind #taoaf #the anatomy of a fall #mcr fanfiction #frerard #the dove keeper #unholyverse #unholyverse series #unholyverse trilogy #my chemical romance #mcr #my post

[candybatwings]

Finally here’s the McKirk I promised <3 I couldn’t find a ref photo of those fancy shots Bones gives people to make them Not Die so I went from memory so uhh. Maybe just don’t look at that part <3

#I love Metric so much their music is everything <3 #I got to see them in concert last year after being obsessed since middle school #it was so good oh my gosh #artwork #digital art #digital drawing #artists of tumblr #digital artist #my art #star trek fanart #star trek the original series #star trek tos #captain kirk #leonard mccoy #bones mccoy #mckirk #mckirk fanart #Spotify

[greghatecrimes]

If I had a nickel for every time I’ve gotten unfairly invested in a ship that’s canon, heterosexual, and has a woman that’s blonde for at least part of the time and played by Jennifer Morrison, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it’s happened twice.

#chameron are toxic lesbians in my heart but ik the whole world sees them as straight😔 #chameron #captain swan #it’s so hilarious that middle and high school me was OBSESSED with once upon a time and so so so in love with captain swan #and i remember a friend telling me ‘oh jennifer morrison! she was in house before once upon a time! you should watch it!’ #i did not watch it. until literally five years later and after that friendship exploded and ended (for the best) #anyways now i’m here and i’m just so fascinated by chameron #i want to psychoanalyze them #allison cameron #robert chase #emma swan #killian jones #house md #hate crimes md #ouat #once upon a time #jennifer morrison #jesse spencer #colin o’donoghue #an anya original #anya shush

[todayisafridaynight]

seonhee and sawashiro both being associated with purple's the most evil shit in the world now who the fuck am i supposed to put in my purple card holder

#snap chats #sorry guys im one of those girlies who are super into card holders now </3 esp the ones you can customize </3 #highkey i got this cause i wanted to put my school id in it so i didnt have to take my wallet out every time i needed to get in my buildin #BUT ON THE LOWEST OF KEYS I GOT IT TO BE MENTALLY ILL TOO i was obsessed watchin people journal and make cute card holders #i dont get recc'd those vids anymore but i remember watchin em an bein like MAN i wanna do that.... thats so cute.. #on the real i think card holder customizing's healthy for me. it helps me learn to use things i buy LMAO #CAUSE WITH STICKERS AND THE SORT I HOARD THEM AND NEVER USE EM #and i always get buyer's guilt even if it's something small so i just think. i have to learn letting go and things not being perfect is ok #YOU BOUGHT IT SO USE IT like those ishin colognes... like the scent'll fade anyway i should use them while i can... #as much fun and therapeutic I Think as this was tho i cant imagine having a need to get another card holder... tragedy.. #regardless. this card holder's really cute </3 spoilers it's a kuromi one cause i needed more purple in my room i fuckin guess #the stickers were real cute.. also there was a lil baku... hi baku <3 #which leads me back to my problem. '''''''problem''''''' yeah i dont even have a printer here but when i go back to my ma's i wanna be sick #walmart lets you get photos on that GLOSSY PAPER... tempted... anyway no listen to my non problems #cause in my heart i do associate kuromi with seonhee alright it just makes sense. PLUS baku and joon-gi #COUNTERPOINT. HOWEVER. there is no image funnier than slapping a depressed middle aged man who prob has a worryin body count #into a card holder decorated with hearts and sweets and bows with a big ass heart keychain danglin off it. like cmon #big brain move is to print out one pic each of em and just swap em out every other day LOOOL #i just want an excuse to show off the card holder.. i get why people have these now this was fun and cute.... #ok bye i think ive been ill enough tonight #i thought i was gonna finish another comm but ☠️ ill just do them tomorrow morning they wont take long..

[theokusgallery]

I freaking love your au and your latest comic because MAN

I FELT THOSE LAST WORDS AND I WAS LIKE "OH FUCK"

First panel was already a bit unsettling itself - like you get it's just intimate manners as you do as a couple but he felt so possessive already and

Sunny's inner thoughts

I'm sure 100% his abandonment anxiety will increase drastically the more he stays with nick and honestly slay

I mean it's kinda obvious

But like I felt that

Yeah

Nick is unhinged

Nick is crazy

Y'all are gay for him

Good 😵💥

Sunny has soooo many issues. So many of them. He's so vulnerable and he makes himself vulnerable to Nick while still being intimidated by him, it's... Dude's got some problems.

#ive talked about mental illness and nick before but not sunny... #well. only a bit. ive said sunny's autistic #but he's also got other problems-- such as abandonment issues as you said #sunny's very insecure in relationships - partly because he has a very limited experience with them #and partly because he has self image issues. #when you grow up as an undiagnosed autistic kid you tend to be very aware you're different while not knowing how to change it #everyone thinks and says you're weird but you have no idea what's weird about you so you can't even try to fit in #a friend of mine told me once that she thought i was so brave for not being scared of being different in middle school #i wasn't. i wasn't brave. i just had no idea why people thought i was weird #sunny in this au knows how deeply different he is from other people but he doesn't know /what/ makes him different or how to change it #and as a result he just doesn't open up very much. he's very reserved and doesnt talk to many people. he has like two friends total #which also conviently makes him easy for nick to isolate #sunny also has bpd! and he gets deeply attached to people who show him any kind of affection very easily #as i mentioned before he also tends to fall for people who intimidate or scare him -- people he sees as mentally superior to him #his self image is constantly oscilliating between 'im the greatest person to have ever lived' and 'im the worst thing to have ever existed' #he's extremely unstable. he has mood swings. he gets obsessive easily. he seeks out relationships with mostly toxic or older people #he doesn't have a good support system. he's socially anxious and an introvert. he's openly trans. most people think he's weird. #he has no stable sense of self. he has panic attacks. he's both hypervigilant and oblivious to lies and attempts at manipulation #all of this makes him a very easy target for someone like nick. #at least- at /least/-- nick genuinely loves him. #ask #tosteur-gluteal #rant #arsenic #i start talking about psychology and i get lost. my apologies

[bloodinthegutter]

Just popped by to say if these three teamed up in the comics, it would be utter chaos.

#x men first class was my middle school obsession #so was x2 #i miss them #rip fox movies #riptide #janos quested #angel salvadore #azazel #x men first class

[forecast0ctopus]

First, I LOVE YOUR ART STYLE SO FREAKING MUCH!!!! Secound i have a fun question! What inspired your style? Or rather what combination of things inspire your style?

kdhskj thanks so much!! and that is indeed a very fun question! idk how long im gonna talk about this so im putting it under a read more

okay so. i was very (VERY) obsessed with these 2012-2014, which is when i started to do a ton of fanart, and i was heavily influenced by them. very pointy shapey square fingers and all........ learned how to draw hands by drawing in danny phantom style lol. anyways stylistically gravity falls is a bit of an outlier because its very Round but setting/themes are anj bait and it had its claws in me the minute it aired. now i am making you look at my 2012 danny phantom art because its funny

anyways in 2015 i got super invested in ace attorney and had to suddenly learn how to draw Suits and Adult Men (in 2015 the men i drew did not look like adults but god was i trying)

uhhhh then i went to school for animation in 2018 which loosened up my sketching a ton since i used to draw way too stiff haha. drawing the same things thousands of times over and over does that i guess

thanks sm for the question!!

#ask #anon #also idk how to say it but twin peaks also had an incalculable influence on me #which i watched because of gravity falls specifically episode 4 the hand that rocks the mabel where gideon is introduced and the club looks #exactly like the red room from twin peaks #the way i had the entirety of s1e5 the inconveniencing memorized after watching it probably 30 times between its airing and ep6 airing. #also had the entirety of paranorman memorized in 2013 after watching it probably 20 times in two months #i was insufferable in middle school and i am now as well but im a little more self aware haha #anyway gravity falls and psychonauts had me. a summer camp hiking camping setting things on fire kid. in a chokehold #they still do #<333 ace attorney for teaching me how to draw suits which in turn helped me learn how fabric/wrinkles work with movement and poses #sorry i never actually got over being obsessed with any of them so im saying too much lmao

[oxygenbefore1775]

16th century Venetian Republic! Reiner and Jean hollowing out dozens of eggs and filling the eggshells with expensive imported perfumes the night before the Carnevale, all without the knowledge of the other doing the exact same thing

#pls thats so them #reijean #lemme rot in my 16th century lucid dreams a bit longer #i wasnt obsessed with the renaissance venetian culture for the most part of my middle and high school for nothing

[anthropoetics]

sorry if this sounds rude or condescending, and i don’t know your exact situation, but you may be downplaying yourself by thinking all of your old friends have moved on from you. i know reaching out might be hard, but i think the average person would be happy if an old friend reached out to them. after graduating from school people go their separate ways— this is a sad fact of life. but it could be that one or more of your old friends are feeling the same loneliness you are. i’m saying this as someone who is also in the process of getting in touch with old friends, and trying to stay in touch with those going away. i guess this is just a suggestion as a last resort

hi, darling! i actually have reached out multiple times and they did too. however, as i said, they all stayed friends, but me. so, if i hang out with them, it's always awkward, i'm not part of their life anymore so i'm not updated, i don't know their friends, lovers, and what happened for months, years even. so i stay quiet and feel left out. they are very kind people which i shared lots of meaningful and joyful moments, but there's no use in forcing a friendship that has ended.

#and i don't share anything with them besides the fact that we were from middle to high school together #and being in the volleyball team #besides that? we never had anything in common #of course i feel sad about that #i still have thousands of pictures we took all those years up on google drive #and i think i was so obsessed with uploading every single picture we took #because i knew. somehow i knew i'd be the one going separate ways

[ask-dr-kujo]

Doc! I have found my new favorite sea critter... The sepioloidea lineolata/striped pajama squid! IT LOOKS SO SQUISHY! I'M GONNA DIE!

They are really cute

But I raise you

"Opisthoteuthis Adorabilis"

Also called the flapjack octopus

-Jotaro

#jotaro kujo #jojo ask blog #jojos bizarre adventure #ask blog #I WAS OBSESSED WITH THESE LITTLE GUYS IN MIDDLE SCHOOL #love them so much