whats day to day like with a nipple piecing? what is the sensation like in the surrounding skin?
Hi!
It varies depending on personal hormonal levels, but it’s fun to play with if your nipples are feeling sensitive. The healing process is really horrible. But it’s pretty mundane now, no real change in sensation and not irritating.
unfortunately the United States’ position as a global hegemonic superpower and a capitalist nation means that something like narrative cohesiveness is not rewarded, and pretty sparkles and brand recognition are ultimately shameless cash grabs that create a pristine, hollow product devoid of meaning outside of the associative to those that pay attention. the identity crisis of late stage capitalism is that we are so estranged from our own identities that our media doesn’t stand for anything, especially not our own authentic experiences
The 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie is obviously not without its flaws: its production was not only hell for the actors but it was also, frankly, dangerous, and in retrospect it was definitely not the sort of film Nintendo wanted to attach their flagship franchise to. But much more so than the 2023 film the film understood that film and video games are two completely different mediums and that gameplay as it is shown in a video game is mostly a contrivance to grant players agency over the action. You can't make a film about an Italian man jumping on turtles and driving go-karts because jumping on turtles and driving go-karts are simply means of utilizing the language of video games towards telling the story. A video game movie that simply translates the act of gameplay (down to a progression of "levels") into film simply turns the player into a spectator: the interactivity lost the viewer is reduced to a passive recipient for what would undoubtedly be a fun set piece to play but does not serve any major narrative function,
The bank robber on the phone with the hostage negotiator: Please just send the SWAT team in to kill us all