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MY THOUGHTS on Episode Three
Ooooh Victorian era Lokius?
OB MY BABY
B15 MY WIFE
CASEY SWEETHEART
…I really have to pee, but I can’t pause this
Fuck it I’m going to pee
Oooh old timey marvel theme
I really want those Loki trading cards I saw at Target today…
RAVONNA MY BELOVED
I hate her but I love her
MINUTES?!
what is Miss Minutes up to?
Minutes is kinda funny
Timely was a… candlemaker?
OUROBOROS WROTE THAT GUIDEBOOK
why the ominous music? Mid season interesting stuff?
OB!!!
Baby it’s alright you’re doing great you’re so smart I’m so proud of you
I’m so happy that he’s important
Haha memories
Horsey!
Wait
Loki and a horse
Oh no
OMG THEYRE SO CUTE TOGETHER IN THEIR VICTORIAN GETUP
Mobius is so excited about the World’s Fair it’s adorable
Why is the ghost clock haunting the midway what the hell is happening
I would’ve been happier if Loki had enjoyed the Cracker Jack
AWWW HE NOTICED THE POPCORN ON MOBIUS’S CHIN THATS SO CUTE
Uh oh Norse stuff
HA HE AINT EVEN UP THERE
HES SO CUTE WITH HIS BOYFRIEND
Loki do you miss your family
Is it just me or did Ravonna look that lady up and down
You just wanna drink with Loki, Mobius. 
Loki looks so anxious
HE GRABBED HIM IM DEAD
is that the loom?
Why is Timely so awkward
Loki looks so scared…
Uh oh
Does this mean that Ouroboros created the loom and Timely stole it?
Timely is so much like me tbh
He’s neurodivergent I can tell
Oh god he’s actually awesome 
I wanna put him in my pocket 
LOKIUS TOUCHES
why did they touch Ravonna 
This is a scam
He’s got a stutter… that’s lovely :)
He’s gonna bolt with the money isn’t he
You don’t wanna do that big man
Uh oh he just poofed him away
This is awkward
Oh he’s chasing him
I’m actually rooting for timely ngl
Why does this feel like an old silent film… 
You can call people on the tempads?!
WHY IS SYLVIE HERE
SYLVIE STOP IT
I WOULD ROOT FOR YOU SYLVIE BUT 
yeah Loki tell her
Is Ravonna a Lokius hater?
SYLVIE DONT
yeah listen to Loki
But Renslayer didn’t work with the TVA there
Sylvie you poor thing
This is going nowhere just throw someone off the Ferris wheel
Oh this feels like the first finale
OH GOD MINUTES
yeah Syl 
A TANDEM BIKE THIS IS AMAZING
is it weird that I kinda ship Renslayer and Timely?
Smooch you idiots!
MINUTES IS KINDA CUTE
VICTOR IS A CUTIE
WE MUST PROTECT HIM AT ALL TIMES
is Miss minutes jealous?
THE WIZARD GENTLEMAN
HIS BUTLER-
that’s not-
I wanna keep Victor in my pocket 
KACHOW
LOKI IS NOT SOMEONE YOU WANNA FUCK WITH
*saxaphone music*
HES ACKNOWLEDGING OUROBOROS! IM SO HAPPY RIGHT NOW
PAPER FLOWER PAPER FLOWER PAPER FLOWER
MARRY THIS MAN
this makes very little sense but I’m ok with it.
WHO DROPPED HER?!
MINUTES?!?!?!
MISS MINUTES YOU BITCH
I don’t like this version of miss minutes
Miss minutes sounds weird right now. I don’t like the look of it. The sound of it. 
That tone of voice 
OH GOD THIS IS BAD AGAIN
Does Miss Minutes think she’s HWR’s lover?
WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE
I DONT LIKE THIS AT ALL
WHAT IS HAPPENING IM CONFUSED
WHAT IN THE FRESH HELL
KEVIN YOU HAVE A LOT TO ANSWER FOR
Ravonna please she was being manipulative
MOMMY- SORRY 
Von?!
Mobius sweetie
WHAT DID HE DO?!
Loki is about to lose his shit on Ravonna for being mean to his boyfriend
SYLVIE MY BABYGIRL
WAIT DONT DO IT BABYGIRL
Loki don’t you dare be in love 
Sylvie stab me instead
Sylvie listen to Victor please
Victor babyboy 
Sylvie stop it
OH THAT LOOK OF HURT ON HER FACE
YES BABYGIRL
IF THEY MAKE MOBIUS IN LOVE WITH RAVONNA I SWEAR TO GOD
oh two hot women battling it out in going to 
OH GOD THE-
OH JESUS SYLVIE STOP BEING HOT
OH GOD
MINUTES STOP IT
MINUTES NO
WHAT IN THE FRESH HELL WAS THAT?!
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coyoteprince · 7 months
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more of an open question but what are some fun worldbuilding things you can think of off the top of your head? I want to hear more owo
Sorry for this novel
Waite has a grey (the kind that looks white) mare named Seraphim, who will make a minor appearance in comic. She's based on a Suffolk punch and Narragansett pacer.
All horses within Widderwood story have a dorsal stripe, no matter if theyre earthly or fae or whatever breed.
Likewise, almost every fae within Widderwood have ear tufts
Degare got his hat in a trade for sex from a Darlington priest, though it is a farmer's planter hat. His shoe style is also called a winklepicker.
Every person's soul is represented by a flame and each person has their own lantern (or lamp, or candle holder...) in Sandman's garden. From a design point, his garden has two principals: the light must always be a flame (no electric light), and time doesn't matter so modern lanterns are okay to depict, but only in this space.
Widderwood is technically steampunk, but I don't think it's going to be super obvious in comic unless you look super closely? Time rules are also funky: I've delayed invention of something yet moved up other things. It technically takes place during the 1880's, but plenty Edwardian and even modern day things pop up. No cars, but gramophones will soon be released. Coal is starting to die off in use and steam and some electricity are quickly becoming king. Prosthetics & aides are heavily decorated and become a hot tool to customize and be proud of. Women wear pants (though high society finds this disturbing) and can own land. Queerness & gay marriage isn't outlawed but its pretty weird to traditionals and queer identity is refered to as "the third sex" as is historical for that period. Those sorts of things
Primary community of Darlington is Caucasian, Black, and Native American, but all manner of people pass through thanks to the nearby port city
What is equivalent to the americas in Widderwood is made up of "territories", which I've been leaving vague because I cannot manage to care about building political empires, I just want two dogs to kiss. Either way, Darlington is ruled by English-equivalent, but original England-equivalent got overthrowed and wiped off the map. Southern state-equivalent, Eastern Canada-equivalent and some of the plains are under similar but different self-governing rule. Much of the western territories are aboriginal-ruled and the entire continent is much smaller than our world. These territories are all mostly on good terms with each other because this is just background flavoring. I'm trying to figure out a naming system for these territories or if it even matters since this story is pretty contained.
My partner bought me a vintage prosthetic leg from a firehazard of a thrift store just so I can use it as reference for Simon's false leg. It literally floats about the house in different spots and we just call it "Simon's leg"
Speaking of Simon, partner also bought me a Victorian book all about prosthetics which surprisingly is very empathetic and includes sentiments from actual disabled people of the time. I used this book to help me figure out what exact style of prosthetic Simon has, as well as his injury. His amputation took place mid calf and despite some mobility issues and how he looks, he's decently strong and has good endurance.
Waite is an Aries with pisces moon & taurus rising, Degare Gemini with scorpio & leo, Simon is Capricorn but idk his moon and rising. I don't give much thought to astrology but I think using it to build character personalities is very fun.
Widderwood mermaids are a combination of selkies and mermaids. They have front & back flippers and inhabit the same role as selkies in that there's many stories of marrying humans and their spouse stealing their skins.
Nuckelaaves are essentially slenderman to fae and no one knows what exactly they are
Darlington is known for their abundance of daisy wheels as a symbol of protection, which comes directly from my colonial cemetery special interest. They often top the margins of colonial tablet graves and have been historically used as a protective symbol against magic worldwide. In my personal practice, I've reclaimed them and they act as my main "religious" symbol, much in the way a cross or pentacle works, and despite the fact they were once used against witches
Darlington & Sullivan Forest geography is set in fantasy Massachusettes with influence from the entire region of New England and forests in Northern Georgia. Locations & buildings in the story will be based on a variety of locations I've visited and documented in person including: Salem Witch House, Bulloch Hall, Root House of Marietta, Atlanta History Museum Gardens & internal exhibits, and Allen County Historical Society & House Museum (the most important museum in my life and the reason why I am the way that I am today). I'm still picking the cemeteries I want to base on, but will likely be a mix of a cemetery I accidentally ran into outside of Salem and a variety of local Georgia + Ohio cemeteries from my childhood. I am hoping to visit Colonial Williamsburg as well as Historic Westville as further reference for town scenes. Yes I am really that intense that I've traveled states wide just to gather research for my gay dog boy webcomic
I have much more I could give, but I need to be careful with what I share to avoid spoiling all my work.
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l0veisadoingword · 2 years
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TAB is such a fucking lame episode. The way it tries to be a feminist call to arms, saying very little else besides "victorians hated women !! Thank god for suffragetes! Girl power!" The way its claiming some fucking moral highground for?? What; thinking women should be able to vote??
Its like theyre arguing "we should respect women more than the Victorians!!" (Pretty low fucking bar but ok), while they simultaneously pulled one of the most massive "fuck you, your experiences are NOT valid and you are crazy theres nothing going on here youre just perverted and want to see two hot guys bang" queerbaits to their majority female fanbase. Its just so fucking tepid. If you ever want to see cringe performative feminism just watch the abominable bride
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sasayego · 4 months
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hi!! could i get a batfam matchup? platonic if possible, i'm a minor :0
i'm 5'3, slightly chubby. I have a busty pear body shape, and fine sepia skin (#8e624b). I have a 4B curly afro. I look around 15.
I use it/she/they pronouns. I identify as sapphic, heavily leaning to women. I don't mind feminine descriptors (Ms., lady, girlfriend, queen, etc.) I enjoy drawing and reading. I adore weirdcore, oddcore, traumacore and all things broken. I'm in a abusive family, and flinch very easily. I dress in a moll goth, grunge type of fashion. I enjoy large sweaters and hoodies as well as very wide jeans. I mostly thrift.
I'm a Pisces sun, Libra moon, Scorpio Rising. INFP leaning ENFP. I'm usually quite bubbly at the begging, but tend to become quieter and deeper as I find out more about a person. I heavily enjoy deep conversations. I enjoy indie rock and alternative - my favorite artists are Mitski and Penelope Scott. I have Maladaptive Daydreaming Disorder, most likely DPDR (not sure though) and ADHD. I struggle with Intrusive Thoughts and compulsive lying. I'm very suicidal, but not in a violent way. I used to be. Now i just want to float away.
I enjoy writing poetry and Victorian-style letters. One of my favorite authors are Osamu Dazai and Neil Gaiman. I'm a little insecure about my personality and stomach. I have daddy issues and crippling mommy issues.
I'm looking for someone to listen and understands me. I want them to be nice and gentle. I need them to relate to my trauma and be a bit broken themselves. I want someone who can drive us in the middle of the night to buy ourselves coffee without a word. i want them to sit and watch a movie in silence. i just need them to be here, knowing they understand. i dont need them to say much. i want to sleep on the sofa while theyre in the kitchen, knowing im safe.
CASSIE CAIN
you two are gonna be besties i can see it. cassie doesn't speak much but she'd communicate with you in ways that aren't speaking. little written notes around the house, flowers to encourage you when you feel down
cassie is an absolute beast when it comes to working out, but she'd also understand that all bodies are worth loving! the way you look doesn't affect the way that you deserve to be loved
also she has definitely read gaiman and dazai. she'd probably annotate a lot of dazai books for you. a lot of notes about villon's wife about how she could let her husband treat her like this
she's a quiet person and enjoys peace and would enjoy your bubbly attitude at first glance, but would adore even your quieter personality
poetry and victorian style letters? hell yes!
cassie is an absolute unit but she can control herself. in no way would she ever even do anything that you're uncomfortable with and wouldn't try to push your boundaries. she wouldn't even make sharp movements
there'd be a lot of quietness between the both of you. i'm thinking you two, a new york skyline up in a skyhigh apartment in the middle of the night, sitting on the couch and doing your own thing but you're sitting next together and it's just the two of you in. a quiet heaven
as she is quiet, she'd also be a big listener. your number one fan and would always try to hype you up in the way that she can
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antiloreolympus · 2 years
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10 Anti LO Asks
1. people also need to get frustration with LO isn't because people don't like RS (though she isn't exactly free from critique)  it's because she's just another privileged white woman who is handed everything on a golden platter while she does increasingly more subpar work, meanwhile other webtoon creators have to work twice as hard while they get ignored and neglected by WT. She's just another example of privileged mediocrity getting all the rewards while rest get scraps at very best.
2. Not an LO critique per-say but I hate how webtoons will always make sure to promote it and pretend theyre still easygoing team as if they're not the same company who neglected the B&R so much they want to quit art all together, cancelled BOTH comics by the roommate assassin's creator w/ no warning, and are ghosting the creator of #blessed for over 2 years now so they can't continue. But hey, make sure to think they're such a nice company that totally don't care about the cash cow creators only!
3. whats so annoying me is you know if rachel was a greek person that you just know no one would care about LO because no one cares about the opinions of actual greeks less than xenoi. rachel on virtue of being a kiwi gets held up as the ACTUAL expert on greece and its myths meanwhile the actual greeks are silenced and told they should be thankful to HER "keeping the myths alive". its just gross she gets to butcher an ongoing culture's stories all for her profit while she aides in silencing them.
4. i actually got an LO ad while on youtube today and its just?? weird theyre still only using art from 2018?? like idk i get thats when it actually had effort put into it, but it would be really weird to discover it now and see the style just got so much worse/different and the story doesnt align at all with what the ads say it is.
5. ngl i want to see what stupid reasoning rachel makes up to deal with semele and dionysus because it will truly be unhinged if she tries to hashtag girlboss hera as she murders a pregnant women and tortures a baby through his adulthood (personally i think she'll have hxp adopt the baby for whatever reason but then now dionysus has to deal with a mom who would be a better sister and a dad who resents him for not being from his broken balls 💀) guess we'll have to wait and see.
6. IDK to me I don't think people have to justify why they don't like this comic, because I have seen way too many of the fans force people to out their sexual abuse histories and trauma to explain why they're so uncomfortable with it, only to be told by these same fans that doesn't matter and saying they're wrong and basically need to "get over it" because the comic matters more they do. It's so gross to force them to explain their pain only to be told their pain and opinions don't matter anyway.
7. I don't even get why Webtoons keeps trying to acquire new comics from NAVER or Canvas when they only focus on LO, LP, TB, and at best UnO and leave the rest to fend for themselves. No wonder the last few months of "Greenlit" announcements have included either one/two or no picked up Canvas series, and for good reason. Why would they agree to all that work with little pay and no company support? They'll spend at most one instagram post on them meanwhile they just HAVE to make another 30 for LO.
8. To add to the "LO should be taught in schools" thing: literature you read in school (esp high school and college) HAS to be challenging and make you think, so YA of any type often just isn't included bc they're not deep They can still read LO all they want, but it serves zero academic merit and that's fine! They don't need academic approval to enjoy a lowbrow comic! If anything trying to hype it up as something it's not only opens it up to being even more critiqued that it already is!
9. I honestly wish RS had stuck with her Victorian era comic because not only would we not have to deal with LO but I would 100% prefer to read a gothic style comic about sci fi horror and dry sarcasm over this neon colored fanfic of the 2014 tumblr version of greek mythology mixed with her ripping off fifty shades.
10. it's embarrassing how the stans just claim "misogyny!!" when one critiques LO or says its not exactly high art because like? It's pop lit, it's not groundbreaking in any way and frankly pretty devoid in any sort of themes or messages, and that's fine! it has a place for that and a lot of people like it, but it's not misogyny to admit it's not Shakespeare. Yeah, a lot of YA and female stories are pushed aside as "fluff" but LO is NOT being discriminated against for being YA or by a woman.
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realife-mermaid · 3 years
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Reading Log for End of Summer
Counts stayed the same for once lmao, I did Not buy any new books this month or miraculously find yet More books shoved under my bed that I had forgotten about. Also - I MADE MY GOODREADS GOAL EARLY!!!!!
And a reminder that books with a bisexual main character and books written by Indigenous author are all marked!!
The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite - 4.5 stars. This was fun, sweet, and romantic. It dealt a lot with women in STEM - its about a female astronomer who is In Her Feelings after her lover marries a man, and falls in love with a rich widow who decides to become her patroness - but it also surprisingly goes into women in art as well, and never pits the two subjects against each other. Also, the constant question of “what does a marriage really mean?” was incredibly well handled and I loved Lucy and Catherine’s views on marriage, science, and art.
Seraphina by Rachel Hartman - 4 stars. This is a reread because I never read the sequel. I also wanted to see if it held up because it was one of my favorite books in high school and really opened my eyes to allegory in fiction. And it really held up. I think it could have been like 50 pages shorter (so much running around, not enough focus on Seraphina’s connection with other dragons) and also it used the word h*lf br**d 😑 But i liked that it wasn’t a one for one allegory. When I first read it, I remember connecting a lot with the half dragons and being biracial but I also saw a lot of disability, queerness, in addition to the racial and ethnic allegory. Unlike a lot of books though, there actually ARE queer characters, disabled characters, characters of color that are half dragons (and that are fully human) and I liked that. Also Lars and Viridius own my gay ass okay.
Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings by Joy Harjo - 5 stars. This really spoke to me. I listened to the audiobook that she read and it was just brilliant, and it helped me visualize the stories she weaved as she spoke and chanted and sang. It’s about identity, and it centers an Indigenous one because she is Indigenous, but she quotes people like Sandra Cisneros and it feels like it makes clear that she means these questions for everyone. It turns the Indigenous identity into the Every Man. It’s so good.
The Shy Duchess by Amy McCabe - 4 stars. Cute, sweet, and fun. It explored the “fridged wife and child” thing in a way that was actually interesting, and also dealt with how reputations affect us. It actually was a LOT like the first season of Bridgerton lmao I think Amy McCabe should ask for royalties bc some parts were eerily similar.
Perfect on Paper by Sophia Gonzales - 4 stars. So sweet like candy!!! I loved the plot, sort of like a Sex Education thing where the main character gives relationship advice anonymously for a fee. Darcy was a great protagonist and I loved how unabashedly queer this book was. I took a star off though bc I hated Darcy’s best friend and nothing really happened there and bc I wish, seeing as it was about the specific issues bisexuals face, it had gone more deeply into those issues.
The Princess Saves Herself in This One by Amanda Lovelace - 2.5 stars. There’s substance but no real form. In the vein of Rupi Kaur, it’s just a lot of hitting enter at random words instead of actually attempting to give the poem proper flow, proper word choice, good prose. I’m sort of confused as to why this was so highly recommended actually.
Phantompains by Therese Estacion - 4 stars. The style of poetry isn’t my favorite (lots of repetition) but the poems were still striking. There’s on “there’s an amputee under the magnolia tree” that is really good and a poem where she compares her disabled body to Filipino lore her grandmother taught us and they were amazing. But be warned, the poems are about the author nearly dying, and in the process getting both her legs amputated and her ovaries taken out, and her dealing with the aftermath. It’s very good but really blunt and brutal in describing her trauma.
Theirs for the Night by Katee Roberts - 4 stars. Steamy. Just full of fun, typical romance stuff - a dethroned crown prince from a fake European country is hiding out in America with his bodyguard/boyfriend and just happen up a down on her luck, fussy young woman who’s down for a threesome, except they all catch feelings - but with very good writing and some pretty good characterization set up in this novella for the main series. Also it was surprise MMF AND IM SO HAPPY.
One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston - 5 stars. I was hesitant to read this bc RWRB is just a book about white guilt and I was sure this would be the same BUT it was amazing! Romantic, fun, witty, and just full of warmth. The found families, the romance, the grappling with last trauma, and it also pulled off a True Love’s Kiss better than Disney could ever DREAM of.
Neon Gods by Katee Roberts - 4 stars. Listened to this audiobook. I liked the girls voice better, she was very expressive, the guy was a bit cheesy. But - this was super good. Not only is it kinky, but there’s clear safe words, boundaries, Hades all but busts out the BDSM checklist to check through Persephone’s yes’ and no’s. AND THEYRE BOTH BISEXUAL. It’s a modern retelling of the myth and the world building to explain how it’s modern is really original. ALSO this was the book I finished my reading goal on!!!!
Forever Theirs by Katee Roberts - 4 stars. Parts of it dragged a bit bc everyone was busy being melodramatic but I still really liked it, and the characters, and how they dealt with the relationship, and I liked a lot of the supporting characters as well.
Desperate Measures by Katee Roberts - 4 stars. On the one hand, the way the author has a really clear idea of how BDSM and power dynamics work is just REALLY compelling and I adored the ending so much. On the other hand, this didn’t actually feel like an erotic retelling of Aladdin, with the exception of Jasmine. It was just erotica with Arab characters who happened to share the names. And while I’m not complaining about an erotic/romance book with non white leads - ESPECIALLY given how Jasmine and Jafar aren’t orientalized since everybody is fucking in this book lmao - it didn’t really live up to its branding in that regard.
Return of the Viscount by Gayle Callen - 2 stars. *Dr. Doofenschmirtz voice* Boy if I had a nickel for every time I was thoroughly enjoying a regency era romance book and then all of a sudden a main character rapes someone and it’s treated like a youthful mistake instead of a heinous crime, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice.
Never Seduce A Scot by Maya Banks - 5 stars. I think the fix to my recent issue with regency/Victorian/Georgian era historical novels is to only read ones where one of the heroes is disabled. In this, the deaf (and believed to ~daft~) daughter of a Scottish laird is forced by the king to marry the laird of a rival clan. Saddled with what he believes to be a wife he can never truly be married to, Graham takes Eveline to his home and tries to care for her, but Eveline wants to make the best of their marriage. It’s romantic, laugh out loud funny, sweet, and also deals A LOT with the different ways ableism affects people. I enjoyed this immensely and I highly recommend it.
IRL by Tommy Pico - 4 stars. There’s this line that goes “My homeland was taken over by brawny English and yet I’m still single!” And it is very indicative of this poetry novel. It’s funny, taking the concepts of colonialism and genocide and imperialism and interrogating them on a personal level from the POV of a city native. Also I just love Tommy Pico’s narration!
Surrender to the Earl by Gayle Callen - 5 stars. So much better than the first book. This one is about a blind widow who enters into a fake engagement with a soldier who served with her late husband in order to get away from her controlling family. There’s so many points where this could have taken the easy way out - not had the hero examine his controlling behavior, had the sisters be catty, and on and on but it always did a good job really digging into the complexity of every situation. Also, it was Wonderfully romantic.
New Books Read: 15
Rereads: 1
Total Counts: 17/97; 24/188
Goodreads Goal: 56/49 💙💜💖💙💜💖💙💜💖💙💜💖💙💜💖
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losewtrevs · 7 years
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Orgasmic intend: how vibrators have become ambitious tech produces
The vibrators long, slow progress from taboo to mainstream( and maybe even cool) has been all about figuring out what exactly ladies want
Consider the humble vibrator. Fabricated as a medical invention in the 19 th century, it has gone on to become a Mad Men plot line, a Sex and the City tie-in, a celebrity talking object and a feminist cause.
Not only are vibrators not invisible, theyre hardly even avoidable. New vibrators are unveiled to the amazed public at TechCrunch meetings. They are refreshed on Gizmodo. They comprise valid talking extents for personalities, including Barbara Walters.( Walters reputation hers selfie, Alicia Silverstone endorses eco-friendly vibrators, Beyonces is reportedly gold-plated and Maggie Gyllenhaal claims an incredible accumulation .) High-end fellowships marketplace them as luxury makes. One 2012 inspect found that 52. 5% of women expended them, whether alone or with a partner, and that women who exploited vibrators were actually more likely to take care of their sexual health by going to the gynecologist for regular quizs.
Its odd to admit this, but vibrators may have gone road beyond not being disgraceful. They may simply be cool.
Its been a strange road to this spot. For one thing: vibrators, despite their generally positive connotations today, were not invented out of some alone benevolent desire to give women orgasms.
The electrical vibrator was actually devised by a British physician in the 1880 s to treat apprehensive conditions of various kinds in both men and women, remarks Lynn Comella, affiliate prof of gender issues and virility learns at the University of Nevada, whos currently completing a book on the subject.
Specifically, vibrators were used in plowing hysteria: physicians imparted manual genital rubs to disorderly wives, with the goals and targets of drawing on hysterical paroxysm. The vibrator was a quicker road to bring on that particular and apparently medically inexplicable fit. Today, marriage scarcely find any of this inspirational; hysteria diagnosis could include coerced institutionalization and clitoridectomies, along with the manual managements. And even the massages themselves were often not undertaken by choice.
But, despite the oppressiveness of the hysteria terror and the strange sex separate consciousness of Victorians ladies seemed to pick up on what the machines are particularly doing. And advertisers started quietly signaling their better, more recreational use in ads.
Vibrators were marketed initially as medical machines and beautiful and health inventions, Comella mentions. Although their sexual helps were known, advertisers in the early 20 th century were flirtatious, using coded expression to both hint at and mask their sexual gives.
The Vibra Touch massager, in the 1970 s. Photo: Archive
For lesson, in the 1908 advertisement for the Bebout vibrator , which territory somewhere between New Age relaxation tape and religious belief, we are informed that the Bebout is soothing, soothing, stimulating and refreshing. Devised by a woman who knows the status of women requires. All quality pulsates and shakes with life.( This soon takes a turn into the vampiric, when we are informed that the most perfect maiden is she whose blood thumps and oscillates in unison with the natural law of being .)
Oscillating blood aside, well into the 20 th century, vibrators have been sold disguised as something other than sex toys as weight-loss devices( as pointed out in the Mad Men episode where Peggy Olsen determines some succor from the burdens of has become a running gal) or as personal massagers, like VibraTouch, whose 1970 s container demo a woman blithely exercising it to her shoulder.
So when did it become acceptable to refer to vibrators as sexuality toys? Or to refer to them at all?
The answer comes through the convergence of three important historical forces-out: feminism, LGBT rights and television.
In the late 1960 s and 1970 s, feminists began to polemic gentlemen received gumption about happenings like the vaginal orgasm( then presumably preferable to the clitoral hodgepodge ). The rising homosexual rights crusade, with its pushed forward increased visibility and dignity, too meant that more parties speak to me sex, and defining what they required out of sex, while disproving pity. Copulation educators like Betty Dodson began to advocate for masturbation often, as in Dodsons case, with vibrators; she produced( ahem) hands-on seminars as a health and needed road for women to get to know their own bodies and advantages.
It was at around this time that feminist sexuality plaything accumulations Eves Garden in New York, Good Vibrations in San Francisco and the bi-coastal phenomenon of Babeland began to spring up, with welcome, well-lit media and highly trained and instructive staff, as behaviors for women to get beyond shopping in unpleasant or male-dominated venues like your standard porn accumulation. The attempt was often spearheaded by faggot wives, and it eventually began to change is not simply how fornication toys were sold, but how they were made.
You had retailers that were trying to cater to a less skeevy market, but the products were pretty much the same, enunciates fornication instructor and correspondent Lux Alptraum. You had lesbians and feminists starting to make their own sexuality toys. When we think about two women having fornication, theres more likely to be toys.
Alptraum points to firms like Tantus, which was founded in 1997 and was instrumental in popularise the medically safe silicone over favourite soft PVC plastics that had been linked to endocrine disruption and cancer.
Women-friendly sex shops likewise played a significant role in putting requires on an industry not frequently known for producing quality products, adds Comella. Good Tremors, for example, offered clients assurances and were not afraid to send defective makes back to makes.
With less stigma, there was more pressure for vibrators to be well-made, health and effective. And, though vibrators are traditionally focused on clitoral or vaginal stimulation, vibrators focused on prostate foreplay have been on the increases as well, which is helpful in getting the whole gender identity spectrum in on specific actions.
And then there was Tv. Which may have been the one thing to push the whole discussion over the edge, and into the public eye, once and for all.
Carrie Bradshaw mulling her vibrator in Copulation and the City. Image: Screengrab
It was only really in 1999 that[ sexuality toys] began to gain some respectability in the mainstream, replies Filip Sedic, founder and CEO of high-end sex plaything firm LELO. That was largely thanks to an occurrence of Sex and the City, which peculiarity a rabbit-style vibrator. That occurrence, in which Charlotte was so enamored by her sexuality toy that her friends had to stage policy interventions, generated a sudden increased number of interest in personal solace commodities.
Increase is putting it mildly. At that time, Sex and the City dominated the dead centre of the cultural exchange; it effectively popularized everything from shoe labels to specific cocktails. But demand for the Rabbit Pearl, which provided clitoral and vaginal stimulation simultaneously, was riotous. In 1999, UK store Ann Summers tells it sold over one million rabbit vibes alone.
And thus, it was upon us: the first fame vibrator. The Rabbit was so trendy that is not simply was it more than acceptable to know what it was, you could actually was acknowledged by owning one.
Which more or less raises us up to the present day. By now, vibrators are not only a recognized industry, they allure major technological knack.
By 2008, wives were considered to be the hottest proliferation market in the adult manufacture, Comella adds. What you began to see were sex doll fellowships founded by mechanical technologists and motif institution grads who were really interested in raising minds about shape and serve and, importantly, lifestyle branding, to the forefront of the novelty sector.
Sedic, for example, has a background in smartphones, and his companys vibrators have a particularly stylish, minimalistic, future-by-Stanley-Kubrick looking that unavoidably prompts one of a sexy iPhone. Alptraum also points to the rise of independent designers.
There are three parts that have aggressively sped up innovation, she replies. One of them is weakening stigma. MIT technologists can say this is a viable job.[ Factor] two is 3D publish. You can now more readily prototype, more cheaply prototype. And three is crowdfunding. People with new ideas and a 3D printer can now get something reached.
With big budgets and easier manufacturing rises more the investigations and progress Sedic says that LELOs in-house decorators work with CAD, 3D pose, clay, grove, you name it and with research and change attains opportunities of the products to work in new ways.
LELOs Ora, which won the Cannes Lions award for product design in 2014, is a clitoral vibrator to take in order to simulate the sentiments of oral sex.( The upgraded Ora 2 pattern was exhausted last-place June .) Meanwhile, the Womanizer, which has gotten rave refreshes everywhere from O Magazine to Autostraddle, “ve been working on” the principle of suction.
The tone of copulation dolls across the industry is improving generally, and thats very heartening, Sedic suggests. But there can be common missteps that we try to avoid. For lesson, we try not to gender LELO produces except where its more or less unavoidable, and we are attempting to induce predicts for particular purpose but without dictating how they should be used because everyone awareness are different. Its a fine course.
That supposed: just because you can buy a $12,000 24 -karat gold vibrator does not inevitably mean you have to. At least not on your first try. Alptraum recommends to purchase a cheap missile vibe pattern( a Doc Johnson Silver Bullet is frequently available for less than $10 from online outlets) before anything else, simply to figure out what the hell are you like. After that, its genuinely topics of personal pick: Theres a vibrator thats altogether worth noting to some people, but not worth it to me, because our figures are different, she replies.
But, if you withdraw, thats what the entire record of the vibrators long, slow procession to the mainstream has been about: figuring out what you, personally, miss. If we can say nothing else about the state of the vibrator in 2015, its that you now have a whole lot of options.
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Indigenous surfing rides high: ‘The ocean is my people’s totem’
Otis Carey, Soli Bailey and a new generation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander surfers are challenging for the top and embracing country traditions
Otis Carey cant really tell you when he started surfing but his connection to the sea is clearly ingrained. I was two days old when I first touched saltwater, he says. Recently signed to Billabong on a deal that combines his love of surfing with his passion for contemporary Aboriginal art, he is part of a new generation of Indigenous Australians who have taken to the water to celebrate connections to country and culture, and to stake a claim to Indigenous lands and survival.
Exciting and unpredictable in the water, Carey is a great surfer by any standard. But with every session, he is conscious of the fact that he represents his people and culture. On each of his boards, he paints an Aboriginal flag as a small homage to his heritage. And when he scored the March cover of Tracks magazine, that flag, roughly drawn on the underside of his board, was front and centre.
With roots in the Gumbaynggirr and Bundjalung clans of present-day New South Wales, Careys connection to the sea runs deep. My peoples totem is the ocean, so its a very spiritual place for me, he says.
As a child, surfing helped Carey cope with the harsh realities of racism in Australia. Its really easy to get into trouble as an Indigenous kid. Youre surrounded by a lot of non-Indigenous people who say a lot of mean things to you because youre different, Carey says. Surfing kept me out of trouble and away from negative things. The ocean is so positive and has a lot of healing elements.
Indeed, while Indigenous communities continue to bear the burden of Australias legacy of colonialism and the continued pressures of racial inequality, surfing has emerged as a way to empower Indigenous youth along Australias coastlines.
I think a lot of people can relate to the cleansing feeling that you get as soon as you jump in the water, says Yorta Yorta surfer Cormach Evans. Still in his wetsuit, Evans dries off after his heat at the Woorrangalook Victorian Koorie Surf Titles, a family-oriented competition run by Surfing Victoria.
Evans learned to surf as a 12-year-old, through Surfing Victorias Indigenous Aquatics program. At the time, the program was run by volunteers, but these days, Surfing Victoria employs two full-time Aboriginal staff members and Evans has grown into a regular on the Indigenous competition circuit. Throughout the year, he participates in events such as Woorrangalook, as well as higher-performance competitions such as Wandiyali in Newcastle and the Australian Indigenous Surfing Titles at Bells Beach.
Now, Evans is a health worker at the Wathaurong Aboriginal Co-operative. Passionate about confronting the intergenerational trauma that contributes to Indigenous health issues, Evans incorporates surfing as a tool in his counselling work. Looking out at the water, he says, I think for Indigenous people, when they jump into the ocean, its a feeling of being connected to culture and feeling a sense of belonging when that first wave washes over you.
Destiny Murphy, left, competing at the at the Woorrangalook surfing competition in Victoria. Photograph: Surfing Victoria
Naomi Murphy, a Waka Waka woman based in Traralgon, agrees. She brought her daughter Destiny and niece Coco to compete in Woorrangalooks under-10 division. As a community worker at the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Corporation, Murphy has been involved with Surfing Victorias Indigenous program for seven years.
I usually bring a busload of girls from East Gippsland to participate in this event, she says, Surfing has so many benefits. Building confidence, learning new skills. All of those things are important because we have such high rates of incarceration among our youth.
This year, Murphy was unable to secure funding to bring other children from her community. Several other community groups are absent for the same reason. With roughly 75 participants, Woorrangalook is significantly smaller than in previous years, partly because Surfing Victoria now holds regional competitions around the state, but also because resources are increasingly difficult to come by.
Murphy is frustrated by the scarcity of funding. Theyre building a new youth Supermax prison, she says. Why dont you strip it right back and get those kids before they get to that point? Prevention is always better than a cure.
Surfing Victoria has itself lost $100,000 in funding this year, and may lose another $50,000 in the near future. Still, the organisation remains committed to the program. We see the merit in it, says Indigenous surfing officer Jordie Campbell, who grew up in the program before joining the staff. Were going to keep doing it for as long as the community wants it.
Indigenous surfing events are less about competition, and more about fostering connections between saltwater mobs coastal Indigenous nations that have relied on the ocean for countless generations. Koorie competitions are like family gatherings, says Carey. And its true, Woorrangalook is a multi-generational event, a chance for youth to learn from their elders.
Womens open winner Amber Harrison came to the event to compete along with her little sister and her father. Harrison sees surfing as a way to honour her ancestors. I can see middens at most of the beaches I surf at. Middens are old shell piles from when Aboriginals used to go out to get food like abalone, she explains. The middens are visible reminders that Harrisons people have long been tied to the sea. Seeing those makes me feel connected to the past and what we can change in the future.
Soli Bailey in action in A Corua, Galicia, Spain, last year. Photograph: NurPhoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images
With more and more kids like Harrison finding their place in the ocean, the future looks bright for Indigenous surfing in Australia. And as the sport takes hold among saltwater mobs, there are, in fact, a handful of Indigenous surfers making their mark on the wider industry.
The Indigenous surfing world is abuzz with talk of Soli Bailey, an up-and-coming Indigenous surfer who won the Volcom Pipe Pro in Hawaii just a few weeks ago.
Bailey took home the Australian Indigenous surf title in 2015, and has been steadily making a name for himself in the World Surf Leagues Qualifying Series. This year may finally be his chance to compete in the Championship Tour. Though all eyes are on him now, hes watched the Indigenous surf community grow alongside his own career.
I think youll find that the next five years will be the best five years in Indigenous surfing history, Bailey says.
Otis Carey shares Baileys excitement. It just comes down to talent, he says, with the easy confidence of a real natural. Weve been supporting each other so much, and it pushed us to the point where people have to acknowledge us.
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Neha Dhupia’s curious love for voluminous vintage gowns, and they’re not always flattering
Neha Dhupia is clearly obsessed with vintage fashion trends. Don’t you think so? (Source: Neha Dhupia/Twitter)
With just a handful of roles in the last two years, Neha Dhupia has been almost out of sight from the big screen. However, the actress is quite active when it comes to the social circuit. From attending parties to making public appearances and with the recent revelations of stars on her show #NoFilterNeha, she has been in the spotlight. After the audio chat show, she is all set to don the hat as the judge in the new season of the reality show “Chhote Miyan” and is also working on the second season of #NoFilterNeha.
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When it comes to red carpet appearances, though, Dhupia has shown a rather quirky penchant for voluminous vintage ball gowns. Her attires have a slight influence from the Victorian era, when women often opted for a tight corset over a bodice or chemisette along with a skirt embellished with embroidered designs, hoop skirt or just a bustle in beautiful gowns. Not just that, the look also has a resemblance with the European fashion in the 1860s and the oversized fashion trend of the 1920s in the United States.
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Check out her unconventional choices below:
Astounding in a classic monochromatic Shantanu and Nikhil creation, Neha Dhupia dazzled in a sheer ball gown. With her hair tied up in a messy bun, she looked ethereal with smoky eyes, dark maroon lip shade and nail paint. The actress also complemented the look with a solid solitaire.
At the Filmfare Awards 2017, Dhupia took organic cotton and linen to the red carpet in monochromes. Wearing a parachute organic cotton shirt with a giant pussy bow and black pinstripe linen skirt from the Chola Label, she took a gamble for her public appearance and called for a lot of attention. The actress accessorised the look with long layered neck piece and pearl studs from her own vintage collection.
Dhupia initially gave us a peek into her future wardrobe choices at the IIFA 2016 with this white H&M gown, which looked like a cross between a nun’s uniform and matron’s outfit and that front bouffant hairdo didn’t help at all.
Good or bad, the actress’ sartorial choices are definitely grabbing a lot of attention!
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Orgasmic intend: how vibrators have become ambitious tech produces
The vibrators long, slow progress from taboo to mainstream( and maybe even cool) has been all about figuring out what exactly ladies want
Consider the humble vibrator. Fabricated as a medical invention in the 19 th century, it has gone on to become a Mad Men plot line, a Sex and the City tie-in, a celebrity talking object and a feminist cause.
Not only are vibrators not invisible, theyre hardly even avoidable. New vibrators are unveiled to the amazed public at TechCrunch meetings. They are refreshed on Gizmodo. They comprise valid talking extents for personalities, including Barbara Walters.( Walters reputation hers selfie, Alicia Silverstone endorses eco-friendly vibrators, Beyonces is reportedly gold-plated and Maggie Gyllenhaal claims an incredible accumulation .) High-end fellowships marketplace them as luxury makes. One 2012 inspect found that 52. 5% of women expended them, whether alone or with a partner, and that women who exploited vibrators were actually more likely to take care of their sexual health by going to the gynecologist for regular quizs.
Its odd to admit this, but vibrators may have gone road beyond not being disgraceful. They may simply be cool.
Its been a strange road to this spot. For one thing: vibrators, despite their generally positive connotations today, were not invented out of some alone benevolent desire to give women orgasms.
The electrical vibrator was actually devised by a British physician in the 1880 s to treat apprehensive conditions of various kinds in both men and women, remarks Lynn Comella, affiliate prof of gender issues and virility learns at the University of Nevada, whos currently completing a book on the subject.
Specifically, vibrators were used in plowing hysteria: physicians imparted manual genital rubs to disorderly wives, with the goals and targets of drawing on hysterical paroxysm. The vibrator was a quicker road to bring on that particular and apparently medically inexplicable fit. Today, marriage scarcely find any of this inspirational; hysteria diagnosis could include coerced institutionalization and clitoridectomies, along with the manual managements. And even the massages themselves were often not undertaken by choice.
But, despite the oppressiveness of the hysteria terror and the strange sex separate consciousness of Victorians ladies seemed to pick up on what the machines are particularly doing. And advertisers started quietly signaling their better, more recreational use in ads.
Vibrators were marketed initially as medical machines and beautiful and health inventions, Comella mentions. Although their sexual helps were known, advertisers in the early 20 th century were flirtatious, using coded expression to both hint at and mask their sexual gives.
The Vibra Touch massager, in the 1970 s. Photo: Archive
For lesson, in the 1908 advertisement for the Bebout vibrator , which territory somewhere between New Age relaxation tape and religious belief, we are informed that the Bebout is soothing, soothing, stimulating and refreshing. Devised by a woman who knows the status of women requires. All quality pulsates and shakes with life.( This soon takes a turn into the vampiric, when we are informed that the most perfect maiden is she whose blood thumps and oscillates in unison with the natural law of being .)
Oscillating blood aside, well into the 20 th century, vibrators have been sold disguised as something other than sex toys as weight-loss devices( as pointed out in the Mad Men episode where Peggy Olsen determines some succor from the burdens of has become a running gal) or as personal massagers, like VibraTouch, whose 1970 s container demo a woman blithely exercising it to her shoulder.
So when did it become acceptable to refer to vibrators as sexuality toys? Or to refer to them at all?
The answer comes through the convergence of three important historical forces-out: feminism, LGBT rights and television.
In the late 1960 s and 1970 s, feminists began to polemic gentlemen received gumption about happenings like the vaginal orgasm( then presumably preferable to the clitoral hodgepodge ). The rising homosexual rights crusade, with its pushed forward increased visibility and dignity, too meant that more parties speak to me sex, and defining what they required out of sex, while disproving pity. Copulation educators like Betty Dodson began to advocate for masturbation often, as in Dodsons case, with vibrators; she produced( ahem) hands-on seminars as a health and needed road for women to get to know their own bodies and advantages.
It was at around this time that feminist sexuality plaything accumulations Eves Garden in New York, Good Vibrations in San Francisco and the bi-coastal phenomenon of Babeland began to spring up, with welcome, well-lit media and highly trained and instructive staff, as behaviors for women to get beyond shopping in unpleasant or male-dominated venues like your standard porn accumulation. The attempt was often spearheaded by faggot wives, and it eventually began to change is not simply how fornication toys were sold, but how they were made.
You had retailers that were trying to cater to a less skeevy market, but the products were pretty much the same, enunciates fornication instructor and correspondent Lux Alptraum. You had lesbians and feminists starting to make their own sexuality toys. When we think about two women having fornication, theres more likely to be toys.
Alptraum points to firms like Tantus, which was founded in 1997 and was instrumental in popularise the medically safe silicone over favourite soft PVC plastics that had been linked to endocrine disruption and cancer.
Women-friendly sex shops likewise played a significant role in putting requires on an industry not frequently known for producing quality products, adds Comella. Good Tremors, for example, offered clients assurances and were not afraid to send defective makes back to makes.
With less stigma, there was more pressure for vibrators to be well-made, health and effective. And, though vibrators are traditionally focused on clitoral or vaginal stimulation, vibrators focused on prostate foreplay have been on the increases as well, which is helpful in getting the whole gender identity spectrum in on specific actions.
And then there was Tv. Which may have been the one thing to push the whole discussion over the edge, and into the public eye, once and for all.
Carrie Bradshaw mulling her vibrator in Copulation and the City. Image: Screengrab
It was only really in 1999 that[ sexuality toys] began to gain some respectability in the mainstream, replies Filip Sedic, founder and CEO of high-end sex plaything firm LELO. That was largely thanks to an occurrence of Sex and the City, which peculiarity a rabbit-style vibrator. That occurrence, in which Charlotte was so enamored by her sexuality toy that her friends had to stage policy interventions, generated a sudden increased number of interest in personal solace commodities.
Increase is putting it mildly. At that time, Sex and the City dominated the dead centre of the cultural exchange; it effectively popularized everything from shoe labels to specific cocktails. But demand for the Rabbit Pearl, which provided clitoral and vaginal stimulation simultaneously, was riotous. In 1999, UK store Ann Summers tells it sold over one million rabbit vibes alone.
And thus, it was upon us: the first fame vibrator. The Rabbit was so trendy that is not simply was it more than acceptable to know what it was, you could actually was acknowledged by owning one.
Which more or less raises us up to the present day. By now, vibrators are not only a recognized industry, they allure major technological knack.
By 2008, wives were considered to be the hottest proliferation market in the adult manufacture, Comella adds. What you began to see were sex doll fellowships founded by mechanical technologists and motif institution grads who were really interested in raising minds about shape and serve and, importantly, lifestyle branding, to the forefront of the novelty sector.
Sedic, for example, has a background in smartphones, and his companys vibrators have a particularly stylish, minimalistic, future-by-Stanley-Kubrick looking that unavoidably prompts one of a sexy iPhone. Alptraum also points to the rise of independent designers.
There are three parts that have aggressively sped up innovation, she replies. One of them is weakening stigma. MIT technologists can say this is a viable job.[ Factor] two is 3D publish. You can now more readily prototype, more cheaply prototype. And three is crowdfunding. People with new ideas and a 3D printer can now get something reached.
With big budgets and easier manufacturing rises more the investigations and progress Sedic says that LELOs in-house decorators work with CAD, 3D pose, clay, grove, you name it and with research and change attains opportunities of the products to work in new ways.
LELOs Ora, which won the Cannes Lions award for product design in 2014, is a clitoral vibrator to take in order to simulate the sentiments of oral sex.( The upgraded Ora 2 pattern was exhausted last-place June .) Meanwhile, the Womanizer, which has gotten rave refreshes everywhere from O Magazine to Autostraddle, “ve been working on” the principle of suction.
The tone of copulation dolls across the industry is improving generally, and thats very heartening, Sedic suggests. But there can be common missteps that we try to avoid. For lesson, we try not to gender LELO produces except where its more or less unavoidable, and we are attempting to induce predicts for particular purpose but without dictating how they should be used because everyone awareness are different. Its a fine course.
That supposed: just because you can buy a $12,000 24 -karat gold vibrator does not inevitably mean you have to. At least not on your first try. Alptraum recommends to purchase a cheap missile vibe pattern( a Doc Johnson Silver Bullet is frequently available for less than $10 from online outlets) before anything else, simply to figure out what the hell are you like. After that, its genuinely topics of personal pick: Theres a vibrator thats altogether worth noting to some people, but not worth it to me, because our figures are different, she replies.
But, if you withdraw, thats what the entire record of the vibrators long, slow procession to the mainstream has been about: figuring out what you, personally, miss. If we can say nothing else about the state of the vibrator in 2015, its that you now have a whole lot of options.
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