Beer and milk are two of the earliest agricultural products so statistically at least one person in the ancient world must have tried a White Gilgamesh
The kids on TikTok think that just because he was a classic country singer, Johnny Cash was conservative??? My babies he covered a Nine Inch Nails song in his seventies.
Classic country singers (the majority of which came from poor roots) were always talking about how much The Man sucked because they were taking money from poor rural folk. You’re gonna tell me that’s conservative?? Get outta here.
I think many people have a fundamentally wrong idea of how CNC play is supposed to work.
To fit the season we are in I’ll describe CNC as the haunted house of kinky play.
In a haunted house the point is to be surprised and scared. You don’t know what is going to await you in each room and we suspend belief for a bit to pretend that these monsters are real, there is some real danger.
But under that is an agreement we make when we enter the haunted house. The actors won’t hurt us, the gore and monsters aren’t real. The people inside are going to try to scare you but if they see you aren’t having a good time they will back off.
It’s the same with CNC play. It’s something that should be done with someone you know well and who knows you even better.
It’s a blanket of consent that allows the submissive to lose themselves in the experience. To not have to constantly be checked in on over and over by their dom because their dom already knows their limits well, and how hard to push them, and can read very well when they stop having a good time and stop.
It’s a chance to explore scenarios where you wouldn’t actually want to be in. It’s the fun of someone pretending to kidnap you but you know deep down you are safe. It’s the fun of playing with multiple partners like you are being overcome against your will but the whole group is in on your limits and desires and is facilitating that for you.
CNC is never supposed to be to abuse someone. Or have an opportunity to hurt someone without their consent. It’s play, a show, an experience that’s a bit deeper and more involved than your ordinary sexual encounters. But it’s always for the enjoyment of both the dom and sub to fulfill their fantasies in a way that is always safe and consensual.
To other people, you’re the special, unlockable character that they worked and worked to finally get- and when they do they’re so happy because they got the game just so they could find you.
Me listening to a "medieval version" of a modern song that has multiple melodic and harmonic lines, knowing that polyphony did not become a prominent musical texture until the renaissance era
when i have a crush i dont kick my feet or twirl my hair instead i am in my kitchen at 3am pacing in circles with my hands clasped behind my back like a middle-aged divorced detective haunted by a cold case he just cant crack
a japanese guy who made a bunch of creepy pasta videos a long time ago (you’ve probably seen Youtube666, he made that) is playing through minecraft for the first time and he’s not using any guides or anything other than the in-game guidebook and he’s fucking. doing it in such a buddhist way.
like, he’s so patient and detached from all of the stuff he’s gotten.
in the newest episode he destroyed 14566 blocks of bridge and blew up his original house just because he learned about xyz coordinates by accidentally pressing F5 and he wanted his house to be at the X:0 coordinate.
also look at this quarry. it’s his 5th quarry.
look at this absolute fucking massive hole.
and it’s not like “HELLOOOOO EVERYBODY WHAT IS UP, TODAY WE’RE GONNA BE PLAYING MIIIIIINECRAAAAFT” he’s just like. a quiet 30 year old japanese man who speaks very precisely and politely. and he even does his own english captions which are overlayed on the video and he uses emoticons like (0u0)/