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annihilate-this-week · 1 year

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“My friends are girls wrapped in boys.”

I bought Sonic Youth’s Bad Moon Rising on vinyl sometime in the mid 90s — I think in 1994 when I was working on the paint crew for Charlottesville City Schools between semesters. I got really obsessed with it, pretty much fell in love with every song. I wrote a whole piece about it a decade or so ago, which you can read HERE if you’re ok with the fact that it predates my transition and may reflect some poor understandings I had of myself and the world at the time.

Anyway.

One song from Bad Moon Rising that really stuck with me is “Society Is A Hole,” which is either the second or third song on side one depending on whether you really buy that “Intro” should be a separate track from “Brave Men Run” (I am a skeptic on this question). It starts with a tape loop of the locked groove that ends side four of Lou Reed’s experimental noise album Metal Machine Music. The loop runs throughout the song, rising and falling in volume depending on what else is going on. The whole thing has a particularly uncanny ambience that appealed to me. I remember walking down Richmond’s infamous Monument Avenue, decades before they took the statues down, in the middle of the night with “Society Is A Hole” blasting in my headphones, feeling like I was vibrating on its frequency.

Thurston Moore’s enigmatic lyrics might mean a lot of things, and I’m sure any interpretation I could give them would be different from his own. But there were lines in the song that leaped out at me, burned themselves into my brain forever, to the point where now I sort of hear them without really HEARING them, you know?

But so anyway. I’ve been reading Kim Gordon’s memoir, Girl In A Band, lately. It’s really good, and has led me to pull some of my old Sonic Youth records back out (by which I mean “find them on Apple Music and add them to my library,” what did you think I meant?). Since Bad Moon Rising is still my favorite Sonic Youth album ever, it’s gotten several plays this week.

And this morning, listening to it doing dishes, I suddenly heard that bolded line at the top of this post in a whole new way. It’s from “Society Is A Hole,” of course, and I always liked it, but my interpretation of it was vague. I don’t think I could have told you what it MEANT, really. Today, suddenly, it hit me like a thunderclap: this line is about closeted trans girls.

Well, OK, not to Thurston Moore, I’m sure. But I think that’s why it always stuck with me. On some level I identified with being a girl wrapped in boy, as if my birth-assigned gender was some restrictive foil wrapper enclosing me all my life, like one of those pieces of Easter chocolate with a picture of a bunny painted on the outside.

I don’t think I could really see how much this idea related to me, particularly at the time of my life when I first got Bad Moon Rising, until I pulled that wrapper off once and for all. Which is a very difficult thing to do, especially when society has everything invested in keeping you in there. But it is at least a nice thought, to think that on some subconscious level, I saw echoes of the truth of myself in the world long before I’d gotten to a place where I could admit it to myself.

#transgender #trans girl #living inside a trans body #sonic youth #bad moon rising #society is a hole

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spilladabalia · 1 year

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Sonic Youth - Society Is A Hole

#sonic youth #society is a hole #thurston moore #kim gordon #lee ranaldo #bob bert #noise rock #punk #punk rock #bad moon rising #1985 #Youtube

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k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9 · 7 days

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Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun

#Soundgarden #Superunknown #Black Hole Sun #Full-length #Release date:#March 8th #1994 #Genre:#Stoner/Heavy Metal #Grunge #Themes:#Society #People #Inner struggles #Life #USA

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flyingtacoturtle11 · 26 days

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That human urge to travel universes somehow and murder Neil Perry’s dad in cold blood

#so quirky #hahaha #but fr #HE CAN GO DIR IN A HOLE #neil perry #todd anderson #dead poets society

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grumpysunfish · 5 days

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Hm. There's this strange idea that reputation does not matter and anybody who cares about it are losers bowing down to the ruling class (and well, that is a part of it) instead of the very real thing that has dire consequences (see: wei wuxian and jin guangyao)

"What will happen to Yunmeng Jiang had they stood with Wei Wuxian and the Wens" is not an open and shut case and maybe all they were going to lose is opportunities for advancements (which by the way is a very serious deal for a war torn region and a sect struggling to find their foothold) but also, it is a very real possibility that they fall with Wei Wuxian.

And hm, there is selfishness in wanting to protect your own over everybody else which jiang cheng is very much guilty of. (Although i'd argue that there is lot of nuance here) But he is also somebody who's motivations are rarely about himself, would put his people above his wants and needs and well being, and would rather eat his own foot than ask anybody to put up/stay with him. Including Wei Wuxian, the guy who supposedly he feels he is owed by. And you know, there's selflessness in that

#Brought to you by... I Am More Calm Now #Anyways #Reputation is a very real thing that makes or breaks causes #And not caring about it is... wildly individualistic #'Polite society' may be a weapon of the ruling class. But there is a reason why it's a weapon #With consequences that isn't just becoming a social pariah #jiang cheng #meta analysis #mdzs #This is the final one before I go back into my usual fandom hole #Unless I decided to ignore my tbr to reread mdzs to properly participate in fandom #uuuuuugh

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chewwypepsicola · 1 year

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yo chewwy. do you have a King Orange design?

yes i do actually!! i started this reference a while ago its from like october or november, his outfit is way too fancy for how (likely) depresed this guy was haha, i also have this other wip for what i think his current outfit could look like! i wanna give him a full wardrobe when i have the time :)

#fun fact for the king outfit sketch #on top it has a note that says “guy that is going to k himself”#im sorry but there is no way KO wasnt planning on going down w the ship with that black hole plan #both purple and KO go to therapy when they are back at their stick society #WIP! but okay to rt!#i mean rb #my bad #avm purple #avm king orange #avm mango #im only calling him mango no mango tango i dont like the tango part #ene does art #ene answers #animation vs minecraft #avm

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shadowinthetreesbutcooler · 6 months

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red team are FULLY going feral im so here for it, cellbit vouching for cannibalism and getting excited, baghera wanting to build a dirt shack and everyone wanting to crawl into a cave and chase people through the woods

#qsmp #qsmp liveblogging #end of the event the other two teams are gonna have interpersonal conflicts to worry about #meanwhile red are having trouble being reintroduced to their own society because they went completely rabid #if they do get all the eggs back chayanne and tallulah watching their dad burrow even further into the wall and snarl and hiss at people as #they approach #missa's avoiding own home at first not just for fear of being a burden on his husband and family now but bc he hasnt had his rabies shot #cellbit gets EVEN WORSE somehow and roier dives down the rabbit hole with him not because purgatory made him feral but bc it made him #bloodthirsty and he loves his husband ESPECIALLY at his worst #leo gets back and doesnt notice a change at first bc her dad always barks at ppl and wants to hunt bbh for sport but the eating ppl is new.#if pomme finds out her mother nearly gave up on saving her shes distraught until she sees the state of baghera #living in a dirt shack and eating human flesh #charlie gets back to eggxile with a new craving for human flesh and a new distrust for codeflippa bc hes said it out loud now and knows in #his heart its not her but how can he let go when he has nothing but her and the other cannibal freaks he trauma bonded with in purgatory #jaiden would be more upset about cellbit killing fed workers but by the end of the 2 weeks she gets him a little now. shed never turn on th #federation ofc but she gets it a little bit.#and differences aside green and red have all bonded now over a shared murderous rage towards bbh lmao #pac is afraid not only of cellbit but all of red now. too afraid to leave the lab.#you get the jist its 2am im going to bed lmao #(lying)#qsmp spoilers

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hopefullystillliving · 10 months

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You ever get lulled into a false sense of security during the first two thirds of a kid's movie that's good with a serious plot but mostly a pretty fun time, only to have the entire final third tear your heart out, chew it up and spit it out, crush it into even finer paste beneath its heel, and add the fine powder your ribs have been turned into by the sledgehammer it whammed you with as a seasoning?

Anyway Nimona was great, 10/10 would recommend, I was crying on and off for what probably totaled 20 minutes of tears.

#hopeful rambling #nimona #cw graphic #i think that's probably the right tag for that description #anyway yes im a little late to the train but i was waiting until i could watch it with my dearest #my takeaway is that they should put a content warning on it for trans people especially bc you will feel punched in the face #that allegory sure can trans.#i think i related to it in a different way than most people #bc being genderqueer yeah nimona going im not a girl im just myself hit home but im not *trans*#so i think i actually ended up projecting onto balistar as someone who deeply loves a trans person (different ways obviously)#being told 'yes you can rejoin the society you betrayed you aren't like *her* you arent a monster everything can go back to what it was #you can be one of the good guys if you reject the freaks'#but they betrayed you first and the good guys aren't good and how things were is worse actually than saying i love you i see you im with you #to the freaks and the monsters who will accept who you are unlike the society that never will always keeping you to an impossible standard #of never being yourself #so yeah the religious/societal prejudice trauma was very felt at some points #and i grieved for nimona not because she was me but because she was my dearest and she was a friend #and she was a thousand people i will never know who decided it was better to die as yourself than be killed as someone you aren't #and didn't have a person to say im sorry. i see you.#anyway. yeah im still crying. altered my brain chemistry is mild i think it rearranged my organs punched a hole in my chest and i thanked it #nimona spoilers

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unhinged-nymph · 3 months

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There was something so right about them bickering and flirting while bathed in bi lighting

#listen I’m just making observations #also they look???? insane???? like so fucking cute I want to eat them up????#and Rhett really had to make a completely unecessary joke about putting his parts in link’s hole #and then gives him that look in the first pic #like ok lol sure #jfc #rhink #rhett and link #mythical society #behind the mythicality #the most fun game ever played on gmm #bi lighting lol

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aspiringwarriorlibrarian · 10 months

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"The climate has changed in the past" a) not on this scale and b) because of it thousands of people died, civilizations collapsed, species were wiped out and it took centuries to claw back from it with some things being irrevocably lost. I'm sorry that you think you'll be the one to make it out but frankly if the house is burning down the last thing people want to hear is "don't worry, fires have happened before".

#people have such a screwed version of odds #no you are statistically not gonna be the one who holes up in walmart and restarts society #you're gonna be one of the zombies

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fellhellion · 8 months

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i don't personally agree with the perspective that "miguel NEEDS to partially correct about canon events, otherwise he's a villain" because like. setting aside the issue of possibly naturalising the irl choices writers made (e.g. fridging gwen) through the concept of 'canon events', to me defining miguel's morality comes down to two questions:

What is Miguel's intent when pursuing his goal? <- it's unambigiously heroic. he desires to save people. and -

Can I plausibly understand how he has come to the belief system (and therefore goal) he has? Yes. I can understand why, when viewing the things he did (universal patterns of suffering between spidermen & the trauma of that dimension collapse), he came to the conclusion he did.

Keep in mind the other bits of information we and the characters are working with are:

Anomalies seem to affect the world they're in (Vulture appears to affect the Guggenheim's structure w glitches)

They're also in danger of dying if they don't have a stabaliser like the watch

But say for the sake of argument Miguel is completely wrong about breaking canon and doing so would not endanger anyone and the alt dimension collapsed for reasons utterly out of Miguel's knowledge or control. That still doesn't negate the heroic intent he operated by nor his desire to save people.

What "How much or little is Miguel correct?" affects is how tragic it makes Miguel's guilt and the moral concessions he feels that guilt about. Whether you would argue for it being needlessly tragic or bleak is another conversation entirely but how correct he is about what damage canon events cause doesn't actually change the fact he operated on sincerely good and heroic intentions.. And I think atsv already sets up that last point in an understandable manner.

#long post #tunes talks spiderverse #she came. she never shut up about miguel. she posted fdshfkshdfjsd #the reason i outline the knowledge of what seems to be the unquestionable consequences of anomalies in alt worlds #is so you can understand why miguel occum razor's miles changing canon as the reason theres a black hole under pav's world #we've already been shown it's possible for anomalies to affect the stability of a world (this seems to be a quiet change from itsv) and #spot firing up a baby collider and using his powers didnt open up a black hole under 1610 new york (as far as we know)#so if youre already predisposed to believing fucking w canon will cause harm i can understand WHY even if i think hes not correct #miguel and spider society assumes miles' action causes that unravelling. ESP when taken in conjunction w miguel believing his own world #jumping caused an unravelling and he applies that same fearful reasoning to whats happening here #i dont think hes correct but i understand WHY he came to conclusion he did esp when u keep in mind the kind of doublebind #miguel is IN already when it comes to being terrified hes got it wrong all over again but also being terrified of the stakes HE LITERALLY #THINKS HE EXPERIENCED (and he DID experience that trauma. even if it turns out it happened for a reason that wasnt his fault or even #related to him being in that dimension at all)

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mummer · 1 year

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barry being obsessed with going all YourFaveIsProblematic on 'great men' as a way to justify himself because if they could do bad things and still be regarded as great then so can he. he’s “doing” the “work” of “bettering himself” and berating sally for being drunk because it “sets a bad example” and hiding guns behind live laugh love decor. He’s literally putting on a wholesomecore front lol, he’s play acting as a ted lasso type and using lib therapy language which is indistinguishable from when he’s using evangelical language which is all utterly meaningless and he uses it as a violence. Ha ha ha

#he’s so fucking evil lol #meanwhile his child is experiencing Room #barry #barry spoilers #it’s endlessly funny to me that he managed to trick half the audience into actually thinking any of his efforts to be a better person were #real or meaningful in any capacity. it doesnt work. world’s a black hole sorry like what did we expect #it’s so fucking patriarchy bro like it’s so fucking fathers #he’s a sitcom dad!#and the great men thing is so. Yeah. YEAH. This society does valorize violent men lmfao #it’s almost like this world was built on violence and as much as we like to pretend we abhor it it’s baked into the structures of our lives #it’s a systemic problem you cant just change. There will always be an angry man in your house #of course he can still be the hero! literally nothing in the world has ever proven otherwise!!!

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rastronomicals · 8 months

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