" If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross.
Where’s it made? Who brought it here? How much were they paid? Who makes it? Is it made in separate parts and put together? How much were they all paid to do this? Where do they get the materials? Who paid for that? Who brings it there? How much were they paid? Who streamlined the base materials? How much were they paid? Who gathered the base materials? Where? How much were they paid? Is it good for them? Is it good for us? Is it good for the land? Is it necessary? Is it biodegradable? How much does it hurt? Do I need it? Do I even want it?
autism means you have a disability that affects your neurology not that youre into fandom culture and wear ugly clothes and like i dont think a lot of you people know that
And while we’re at it, I DON’T think trauma “is stored in the hips.”
I think in the modern “developed world,” computerization, the nature of a lot of low-wage up on through middle/upper middle class jobs, and a real reliance on public and private road or rail transit with less walkable cities, has led to a lot of people spending a lot of time everyday either sitting down or standing stationary rather than moving around with more varied activity throughout the day.
And I think if you mix woo jargon and emotional or psychological prompting (i.e., leading the witness) into your secularized (or not!*) religious/quasi-religious/formerly-religious exercise practice in a 100⁰F room right before you force a muscle insertion point into fascia release, emotionally constipated people are going to fucking cry about it.
But they all have stiff and tight hips. People got trauma and they got stiff hips because they have a 90 minute commute over potholes 2x a day after having to sit at a fuckass desk or stand behind a register for 8 hours. Unless the (emotional) “trauma” in your hips is “wage slavery,” they’re not related!
*And to prove the Orientalist cultishness of Western yoga of it all, are the musclehead gym rats talking about trauma in their hips when they’re doing hip thrusts, split squats, using the abductor/adductor machines, or foam rolling their legs? Are the “Pilates princesses” talking about weeping, but at only pelvic work? The folks at Barre classes? Zumba? Hell, I’ve damn near thrown up in physical therapy, do you think that’s a common refrain for PT/OT? That it’s just the hips? Do you think your hypermobile buddies have less trauma than you?
There are plenty of traumatized people who do well with physical activities that ground themselves in and remind them of their physical experience and existence with their own bodies. That’s great. Very happy for them. But it’s not a universal experience rooted in any kind of scientific fact!
I know that for expensive things, people will sometimes say stuff like, “Would you like this without the logo? Would you like it if you saw 250 other people with it? Would you want it if it was free/a gift with purchase/easily attainable, or is its price/rarity making it desirable?”
And those are often valid questions to ask.
But consider this: sometimes the logo or typography is really good?
I don’t need Arc'teryx! But I like dinosaurs! So, yeah, I bought the bag for the dead bird on it! I like LV’s monogram and always have! Not everybody’s monogram, but I like theirs! Sometimes I want a shiny triangle on some shit, and Prada’s got my back when Amazon or Lululemon or whoever does not! So sue me!
And RE: things like Birkins and the price/exclusivity vs. attainability factor… you underestimate my power, I’ve genuinely liked the briefcase purse, old-lady top handle bag, doctor bag silhouette my whole life, and I have bought it for $17 at the thrift!
Some things truly are a FOMO, popularity contest, wanting to understand the hype, rapid trend cycle type of phenomenon… and some of us just coincidentally happen to have expensive taste, or taste that aligns with something popular or highly visible. Both of those things can exist in one person!
I know that for expensive things, people will sometimes say stuff like, “Would you like this without the logo? Would you like it if you saw 250 other people with it? Would you want it if it was free/a gift with purchase/easily attainable, or is its price/rarity making it desirable?”
And those are often valid questions to ask.
But consider this: sometimes the logo or typography is really good?
I don’t need Arc'teryx! But I like dinosaurs! So, yeah, I bought the bag for the dead bird on it! I like LV’s monogram and always have! Not everybody’s monogram, but I like theirs! Sometimes I want a shiny triangle on some shit, and Prada’s got my back when Amazon or Lululemon or whoever does not! So sue me!
Tipu’s Tiger, a life-size, working mechanical organ. That happens to be shaped like a tiger eating a man. When cranked, you can hear the tiger growling happily as the man wails in agony. The tiger automaton was made for Tipu Sultan, ruler of Mysore in South India from 1782-1799.
Just saw this Millennial influencer talk about wanting to be able to wear “earring stacks,” so I was like… okay, what’s stopping you… she only had a single lobe piercing, so she was going to get pierced. Fine, whatever.
Then she was bracing for how painful it would be (at a piercing studio… never been in the piercing gun or DIY trenches), she got TWO PAIRS OF LOBE STUD HOLES at once (jumping from a total of one earring per ear to three earrings per ear in one day… sis is going to feel like she got a monster cold in like 12 hours just from the immune system jolt 😂), and THEN was like, “Oh, but I want it to look chic and not Millennial cheesy, do you think I can pull it off?!”
…Ma'am.
If you are going from true normiecore Protestantpilled to multiple piercings in one day– in an amount EYE would certainly still find “normie,” but you do you lol– and you’re worrying about looking “cheesy” or “cringe”… You should not have sat down in that piercing/tattoo parlor chair and wasted them people’s time, I’m sorry, lol.
Like this sort of thing was a plot point in The Babysitter’s Club novels, and I remember reading those books and thinking they were too old at 13 to be that dramatic about mall kiosk piercings.
And I know we’re not a “cool” generation or nothing, but this was a heretofore unplumbed pocket of corniness it never would have even occurred to me existed for one of my close age peers born in the 1900s. We’re really too old for that now. Please be serious!
Actually, I just realized I’ve got the fewest body mods out of my entire immediate family lmfao, I’M THE SQUARE ONE IN MY BLOODLINE…
I stand by everything I said + tbh it should be all the more embarrassing that I’m the one (correctly) calling somebody a nerd for handwringing about fucking lobe piercings, but yeah, all my sisters and both my parents (both on the borderline between Gen X & Boomer) either have more piercings than me, more tattoos than me, or both.
I like to keep lists like these short; I'm not on this website to beef with strangers online, and it's easier for everyone to unfollow, block, or move the hell on. If someone is on this list, just know that they're here for a reason, and went above and beyond to bend over backwards for the express purpose of tearing ass.
