Mar 16, 2013

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Fanfic

I woke up wanting to read fan fiction. Sadly all my fandoms are dead. X-Files, Buffy, STTNG, Harry Potter (not dead, but not by bag anymore,) who else? Ideally some Batman but I wouldn’t know where to start.

Het or femslash or particularly interesting slash. Any reccs?

No Supernatural, because I get it but I don’t get it.

What else would work? Mad Men? Game of Thrones? Hm.

Mar 15, 2013

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Call from my mother

  1. Mom: I have to download Turbo Tax and the website says Windows or Mac.
  2. Me: This is on your iMac?
  3. Mom: Yes.
  4. Me: ...
  5. Mom: Which do I download?
  6. Me: You want to know know if you Mac is Windows or Mac?
  7. Mom: Yes.
  8. Me: ...
  9. Mom: Or do I need something else?
  10. Me: Back when I was born was there any commotion in the hospital?
  11. Mom: What?
  12. Me: I mean, is there any question, any question at all if you are my biological mother?
  13. Mom: *frustrated sigh*
  14. Me: Your iMac is a Mac. Use the Mac software, for your Mac.
  15. Mom: Was that so hard?
  16. Me: Harder than you could possibly imagine.
Mar 13, 2013

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words & turds: don't love men who won't dance

wordsandturds:

writingdirty:

wordsandturds:

writingdirty:

wordsandturds:

when i was young(er) my favorite spice girls song was always “if u can’t dance” (if you can’t dance to this, you can’t do nothing for me baby) and now it’s all falling into place. there is nothing more natural than movement. first movement is rocking in the womb; first music is your mother’s…

Unless it’s been drilled into your head that your body isn’t pretty and being graceful is feminine and thus a capital offense. And all body contact is sexualized in your head. And you grew up with music that one didn’t formally “dance” to i.e. punk, hardcore, grunge, etc.

Careful what you call natural.

Sore point from the boy who took ballet and jazz tap as a child and turned into a chubby teenager who was formally put in his place by his peers.

nope, still calling it natural. movement is not “drilled into your head.” the restriction of your body is. and what was there before that happened? molecules that shake. a baby that cries to be rocked back and forth. movement doesn’t need to be learned. the notion that it’s not for you needs to be unlearned.

The whole idea of “natural” is problematic. What is “natural?” It’s bandied about. It’s natural because it happened early in life? Life and your environment do “unnatural” things to us?

Hey, I dance, I’m just not comfortable with it. I get on the floor and shake it, but I am hyperconscious and anxious and hoping I don’t look like an idiot. Still, I’m defending the me from a decade ago who stood against a wall nodding his head because the rest of his body was gripped in fear. I got over that shit (somewhat,) but not everyone did and I’d rather pull that boy onto the dance floor or stand next to him nodding my head too then call their fear unnatural.

It took a long time to break out of that for me and for others and telling someone who is broken that they can’t do what should be natural sounds like bullshit.

All things that people do are within the bounds of nature. There is no act that is unnatural or supernatural. That break people insert that tried to separate humanity and animals/physics/the rest of reality is a copout. It’s using contrived notions in place of words with actual meanings.

the same could be said for literally every word i used in my original post. what is “natural?” what is “instinctive?” what is “pure?” what is “complicated” vs “uncomplicated?” 

i’m not telling “broken” “people” that they “can’t” do what should be “natural.” i’m saying that i’m not going to get into people who don’t care/haven’t learned to get into their own bodies. this reads the same way as my posts that say shit like “don’t love men who think that reverse racism is a thing.” or “don’t love men who won’t take showers with you.” 

i can see why you’re salty about it, but don’t sweat it. sorry i was a bitch, i just really hate it when white men tell me to be “careful.”

I get it and I know you can give salty talk right back. Debate is good and I certainly see what you are saying. Just doing my job standing up for the ones against the wall trying to work up the courage.

And I won’t tell you to be careful. Neither of us will be anyhow.

Mar 12, 2013

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words & turds: don't love men who won't dance

wordsandturds:

writingdirty:

wordsandturds:

when i was young(er) my favorite spice girls song was always “if u can’t dance” (if you can’t dance to this, you can’t do nothing for me baby) and now it’s all falling into place. there is nothing more natural than movement. first movement is rocking in the womb; first music is your mother’s…

Unless it’s been drilled into your head that your body isn’t pretty and being graceful is feminine and thus a capital offense. And all body contact is sexualized in your head. And you grew up with music that one didn’t formally “dance” to i.e. punk, hardcore, grunge, etc.

Careful what you call natural.

Sore point from the boy who took ballet and jazz tap as a child and turned into a chubby teenager who was formally put in his place by his peers.

nope, still calling it natural. movement is not “drilled into your head.” the restriction of your body is. and what was there before that happened? molecules that shake. a baby that cries to be rocked back and forth. movement doesn’t need to be learned. the notion that it’s not for you needs to be unlearned.

The whole idea of “natural” is problematic. What is “natural?” It’s bandied about. It’s natural because it happened early in life? Life and your environment do “unnatural” things to us?

Hey, I dance, I’m just not comfortable with it. I get on the floor and shake it, but I am hyperconscious and anxious and hoping I don’t look like an idiot. Still, I’m defending the me from a decade ago who stood against a wall nodding his head because the rest of his body was gripped in fear. I got over that shit (somewhat,) but not everyone did and I’d rather pull that boy onto the dance floor or stand next to him nodding my head too then call their fear unnatural.

It took a long time to break out of that for me and for others and telling someone who is broken that they can’t do what should be natural sounds like bullshit.

All things that people do are within the bounds of nature. There is no act that is unnatural or supernatural. That break people insert that tried to separate humanity and animals/physics/the rest of reality is a copout. It’s using contrived notions in place of words with actual meanings.

Mar 12, 2013

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words & turds: don't love men who won't dance

wordsandturds:

when i was young(er) my favorite spice girls song was always “if u can’t dance” (if you can’t dance to this, you can’t do nothing for me baby) and now it’s all falling into place. there is nothing more natural than movement. first movement is rocking in the womb; first music is your mother’s…

Unless it’s been drilled into your head that your body isn’t pretty and being graceful is feminine and thus a capital offense. And all body contact is sexualized in your head. And you grew up with music that one didn’t formally “dance” to i.e. punk, hardcore, grunge, etc.

Careful what you call natural.

Sore point from the boy who took ballet and jazz tap as a child and turned into a chubby teenager who was formally put in his place by his peers.

Mar 12, 2013

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I need help. I need fantasies. I need dirty ideas to play with. What’s your goto fantasy when you are in bed, when nothing else will work? When your hand is between your legs and you need to come what do you think of?

Mar 8, 2013

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Today is by far the most "clients from hell" day ever.

  1. Client: We want images for this campaign that are bold and provocative, also very timely.
  2. Me: Ok. Are we talking about setting up shoots or do you have a source?
  3. Client: Well, we don't have a lot of budget, so we are using royalty free images from Getty.
  4. Me: Ok. We can see what we find, what are you looking for?
  5. Client: We want some people in a garage, inventing things, like inventing 3D printing. Also some guys in an office, like, inventing Twitter, specifically! You have to tell that the things they are inventing are going to be billion dollar ideas. Also people on a moon base, like the first people who ever built a moon base! The most important thing is that it can't look staged and the people can't look like they are posing. It can't LOOK like stock photos.
  6. Me: I can take a look, but a lot of those concepts are going to be difficult to create even if you were to do a photo shoot, let alone buying stock footage.
  7. Client: Well, we don't have any budget to buy photos, that's why we are using Royalty Free stuff.
  8. Me: Right, um, but it still costs money. You can get a subscription type-
  9. Client: No, it's free.
  10. Me: Royalty free. Meaning you don't have to pay royalties.
  11. Client: NO! It's (other client interrupts with whispers)
  12. Client: Oh. I see.
  13. Pause
  14. Client: Can you draw?
Mar 6, 2013

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Or use your name.

Or use your name.

(Source: growlithed, via queer--princess-deactivated2013)

Mar 6, 2013

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wordsandturds:

now accepting slow-dance partners

You can step on my toe if I can touch your butt.

(Source: Spotify)

Mar 6, 2013

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BDSM Ideology: “Pansexual”

agevitam:

   Today I came across this comment on Fetlife defining the word “pansexual” (trigger warning for a transphobic slur): 

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Yeah. This. I’ve had a variety of people “praise” me for being far queerer/gayer/whatever than I am. I’ve playfully called myself hetroflexible or what ever, but having grown up with people who actually had to fight for their sexual freedom (and not always win) I am weary of even calling myself bi, just because I make out with/play with dudes once in a while and occasionally wear more than three colors at a time.

I still think the best definition of pansexual is: like straight only served in a deep dish, Chicago style.

Mar 3, 2013

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JUST LIKE THE WHITE WINGED DOVE
Sings a songs
Sounds like she’s singing
Whoo (baby) whoo (baby) whoo

Mar 2, 2013

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This looks like a compilation of all of my girlfriends from 22-30.

This looks like a compilation of all of my girlfriends from 22-30.

(Source: cumoverhere, via curvynerds)

Mar 1, 2013

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Feb 26, 2013

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Opening to the Fantasy Novel I Will Never Finish

(Apparently I like writing about naked girls dressed like animals running through the woods.)

The flickering fire in the center of the tent made the world nothing but hot amber ligh, the sound of crackling embers, and the dense smell of smoke. Kitryn breathed deeply and closed her eyes. She let the smoke, the metallic stench of a fresh kill from the cooking fires outside, and the lingering scent of the river fill her lungs.

Saera slapped her across the face for not looking straight ahead, then smeared a thin line of white under each of Kitryn’s eyes with a war paint made of clay. On Kitryn’s lips she pressed her thumb, wet with fox blood.

“For speed,” Seara whispered.

Another warrior, Kitryn didn’t know her name, came in and threw a handful of dried herbs on the fire. They sizzled and cracked as everything grew thick with sickly sweet incense as the smoke rose up to the hole in the top of the tent.

Kitryn wore the boots she’d been helping to make for almost a month. Kid leather, fitted for her legs, but with room enough to grow. They came to her thighs and it felt strange to have other women lace them for her. It was her seventeenth year. It was the night of her rite of womanhood.

In her seventeenth year an amazon warrior was expected to choose her life path. Art or the fields or raising children or herding or hunting or, like Kitryn, they could choose to be a warrior. No path held any shame, for amazons did them all to the best of their ability and each job was necessary for the community. Each had its own rite, but the warrior’s way was the deadliest.

Saera slipped the gloves onto Kitryn’s arms. They were the same reddish stained goat leather as the boots and came up just above her elbows, but they did not cover her fingers. Saera’s mate Elliza braided Kitryn’s hair and then tied in the final piece of the ceremonial garb; a circlet that could be fastened to her head by braids and knots which held two large stag antlers.

The older warrior, the one Kitryn didn’t know, bent and picked up Kitryn’s spear. Like all warriors, Kitryn spent her apprenticeship making spears. She kept the finest one she’d made for herself. The older warrior examined it.

“You make them heavy. I’ve used the ones you’ve made. I like the extra strength. One can put down a boar with one of your spears,” the woman said handing the spear to Kitryn, “let’s hope you can put down a wolf with one.”

Saera patted Kitryn on the shoulder and she stood up.

“She’s ready, captain,” Saera said the woman. Only then did Kitryn realize that the older warrior was Tamyara, the captain of the guard. It was unusual for her to come to a rite of passage, but not unheard of. It made Kitryn stand taller. It meant that Kitryn was under consideration to be selected as one of the high guards or even a stalker.

With the flap of the tent pushed back the cool air of the end of winter cut into Kitryn. She walked out into the open air in nothing but thigh leather boots, elbow length leather gloves, antlers on her head and a smear of fox blood over her lips, just as all those who wanted to be a warrior did before her. She was to go into the dark heart of the woods and come back with the heart of predator. A wolf, a great bears, or if she was lucky an unlucky male hunter who stumbled into amazon territory.

Victory meant a place among the warriors of the amazon queendom. Failure was supposed to mean dishonor and to chose another path, but in reality it meant death in the cold woods.

Looking back, Kitryn saw Elliza close her arms around Saera, whose eyes had grown wet. They had raised her together and now they let her go to be a woman, a warrior, or if the goddess willed it, a corpse.

Lightning flashed across the sky in blue-white forks and after a few moments thunder cracked loud and rumbling in the distance. In the seconds of illumination the girl’s hips and breasts looked almost obscenely naked in contrast to her covered arms and legs. With the antlers she seemed to be some forest nymph or spirit come to bring a message from the faeries.

Kitryn was thin, but muscular. Her lithe form held the scars and bruises of a life lived in the woods. Hunting, travelling hard and fast and partaking in the little scuffles and playful fights that the amazons loved. Her eyes, highlighted by the white war paint under them, shone brown and fierce.

Another flash of lightning illuminated the girl’s antlers and spear and the captain raised her hand to signal the beginning of the hunt.

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