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i’m ok alone but you’ve got something i need

Started by puckish · 8 months ago

i decided to backpedal - um, skate backward - with my skating practice. i’ve been going to boot camp with the san diego derby dolls off and on, but having trouble there because i’m Just Not Good Enough. so i decided (on the recommendation of a skater who used to live ... Continue reading »

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  • jacicita

    1 year ago

    I saw a reference to the "yo" thing, possibly on Andrew Sullivan's blog, judging from the link you posted? It's interesting in the way that language is always fascinating, but holy toledo is it *loaded*.
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  • puckish

    1 year ago

    heh, it looks like sullivan did discuss it extensively. :D

    mmm, language. i still want to continue that study i was doing on trans-allies' perceptions of trans language that i was doing. but i'm... probably not going to, unless i do it in amsterdam.
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  • cubbie

    1 year ago

    i finally looked at that article just now. so tricky, man!

    your icon font looks just a little like there is an end quote at the end of each line, so i was reading "learn to 'skate' smash the 'state'" which made me giggle a bit.

    i was really critical of juno at first and then once the kimya music started playing, i got all mushy and noncritical, and was recommending it left and right, and then this girl who's recently started coming to quaker meeting, who's a transracial adoptee went and saw it and it really upset her and she sent me this link because she agreed with most of the critique, and i read it and was like, "awwwww, fuck."

    hi, family friendly!
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  • puckish

    1 year ago

    yeah, there were definitely some issues with juno, which i keep trying to blame on the genre, but it's also... the superheavy hyping of it makes it underwhelming for the average viewer, i think, and the indie-yet-material-obsessed-ness (oh wait that yet is almost redundant) of it freaked me out. but i went with gwen and mother, who both liked it, and everyone at the screening i went to seemed to like it - even folks voicing that they hadn't expected to.

    i've also talked to a few folks who can't have babies who cried at it/are avoiding it for that reason.

    i don't know. i went in expecting fluff, and there were less things to cringe at than i had feared, although there was also some *severe* cringing (a few times mentioned in that link). also? the closing part that everyone loves so much? blaaah.

    but it's making kimya's world mostlyhappy, so it's making me mostlyhappy.
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