still figuring this out but Iām a great writer and I post my fiction here - Mostly stuff about love and family
Mar 4, 2024
Related Recs
And I only have one post on there so far which is a personal little ghost story. But as my pineal gland continues to decalcify Iām finding inspiration to create more, starting with a sick but humorous look back on the time my grandfather tried to molest my boyfriend (my mom one of my only subscribers is unironically going to love this one) which some of you may have already read elsewhere under another of my nom de plumesā¦ so if you like the mind of Tate R. Hole and want more longform stories and perhaps some cultural criticism this would be the place to go
Apr 10, 2024
Sorry obligatory self-promo. I have some shorter ones and Iāve recently started posting a serialized story but itās all first-person confessional autobiographical or autofiction writing, exploring the darker side of life with what I hope is acerbic wit š«¶ enjoy reading about ghosts, the time my grandfather tried to sexually proposition my boyfriend, coming of age, and young loveā¦
Feb 4, 2025
I finally locked in and made a substacked (only knew about Substack because of pi.fyi soā¦ thanks!)
Iām not the best writer so itās really intimidating getting onto a platform thatās word heavyā¦ also digitally anxious (being perceived digitally is tough) but I finally decided to just go to help with it and honestly I canāt wait to write more just for fun.
I would like to see more people use it like itās Wordpress or a diary! And if anyone has any substacked recs please let me know. Itās exciting or maybe itās the dopamine rush. šŖ½š¦“šøš
Aug 28, 2024
Top Recs from @babyboybrida
this was the epitome of the Obama administration
Feb 19, 2024
ā¤ļø
Not a rec but a trend I noticed in music.
In Hayes Code Hollywood (puritanical production mandates against things like sex, violence, swearing in movies), there were musical numbers that took otherwise innocuous songs and added eroti./BDSM undertones. we had āDiamonds Are a Girlās Best Friendā from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. The big dance sequence in Minnelliās The Pirate, where a woman is transformed into a donkey/bunny(? I forget) on all fours (I think?) while Gene Kelly gyrates around her in tight, low cut leather (this is crystal clear).
Fast forward (Iām skipping many steps - an amateur at this sort of thing) to the late 2000s/early 2010s. The latent BDSM becomes more explicitly lyrical in songs Like āBad Romanceā and (obviously) āSM.ā However, these songs have erotic purchase - they chart desire ( ā I want your revengeā āChains and whips excite meā) without the context of the body. The instrument and the lyrics let the listener construct titillation/lust.
Then, in the latter 2010s, we get total assaults of the physical experience of pleasure in Songs like āWAPā artists like Cupcakke, etc. so explicit that they undermine eroticism. At the same time, thereās also artists like Carly Rae Jepsen, who wax about yearning in a mystical, spiritual fashion (that im sure Jia Tolentino wrote about somewhere).
still working out why, but I think this change speaks to how rabidly we want sensation (not contemplation) from art but also (bc we get most of our art electronicall) technology and (still Working this one out) religion?
i told my friend about this and he said, āSex Positive Accelerationism.ā
Feb 26, 2024
The following photos are examples. another instance which belongs only to memory: I was teaching kindergarten on the UES at a point in my life which seemed to have no point but one morning I was walking from 86th street where they have enormous lavish dogs who look like they have a 401k and the sun was coruscating like entire streets were orange and I strolled past this Platonic piece of dog shit that was sculpted like a soft serve and the shit had this gleaming halo from the sun and stopped and stared at it for like 5 minutes
This song from the legend of Zelda always plays when I see these: https://youtu.be/qtCWgWUhA8s?si=f13382M560HRzX6B
Feb 4, 2024