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gwydion* Liberal Party Wins Canadian election! Congratulations Canada on pulling out of your conservative downward spiral! Let's hope England and Australia find a way out as people are literally dying as a result of Conservative policies in both places.
* "Gun violence taking alarming toll on children:"
* "Direct democracy eyed as way around NRA lobby on California gun laws:"
* "Donald Trump States a Fact:"
* "Blacklash 2016: The Unblackening - Donald Trump vs. Jeb Bush on 9/11:"
* "Blacklash 2016: The Unblackening - Hypothetical Heroics:"
* My Rocky Horror as Queer History Rant:
Picture the Fall of 1986. The Plague was destroying everything and everyone good and beautiful and the bomb could kill us all any minute. My little sister ha been in the ICU of one hospital or another since February and my parents and Grandmother were doiwn in Baltimore with her so they could be there if she died before an organ turned up for transplant., so I was alone up North with a year of driving under my belt and a lover who had an older friend who was playing RiffRaff on south Street.
I was a teenager responsible enough that my parents trusted me to live alone for weeks at a time, driving myself to and from school and work. I was absolutely not allowed to drive around Philly at night. My Mother would have had a stroke if she knew I was smuggling a boy (he snuck out through his window old school style) out to a Midnight Showing on South Street, which was a traditionally counter culture place and very Punk rock and thus terrifying to her.
As irritating as it was to have an adult man repeatedly stick his hand in my crotch, the movie itself was like a window out of hell to someplace better. It was a promise that if my non-binary ass could hang on another couple years I could get the fuck out of a city where roving bands of cops used to group kick gay people for sport. If I could just hang on, somewhere there would be a place where my flamboyant ass could find people like me to be different with. Rocky horror said I wasn’t alone, that it would be okay if I could just hang on.
You can’t tell me that isn’t important and beautiful.
Yes, the language has evolved since then. Yes, it is problematic as hell around consent. Yes, there are some serious problems with some of the audience calls that were floating around in the ‘80′s and ‘90′s which is when I was going to see it. (I still watch it every year or so at home and do all the chants I remember, which turns out to be quite a lot, really. For some of them, I revert to older calls, because there are some things I will not say, period.) I am not saying this movie is perfect, just that this movie has provided people like me hope in the darkest depths of the horror that is high school for so many queer kids, and as a piece of our history, as art made by a non-binary person that touched so many lives, it is important.
* So yesterday, I had the delightfully textured black scarf. Seriously, I was handling it today and was startled by how soft and interesting it is to my hands). Today apparently a package came from my sister. (We found it after midnight). A complete Soap series DvD and a Mr. Roger's changing sweater mug, so a little odd, but useful. What I really desperately need is for the Alabama relatives to send me a check. Even ten dollars would solve the ebays fees mean I'm going to go negative on my bank account issue. Or if the late payer would actually pay me that would solve it. Sigh. There's been no card or letter from the Uncle that actually likes me yet and I sent him a Halloween card with letter earlier in the month. I hope he's all right. His health is always fragile and there is no guarantee word would reach here if he's had a bad turn. Apparently the Gothmas present opening starts on the 21st, not the twentieth. I'm tempted to start after midnight to make it a present a day starting with my Birthday.
* Two Lumps Do Let the Right One In: http://www.twolumps.net/d/20151019.html
* Delightful spoiler filled Crimson Peak squeeing: http://cleolinda.livejournal.com/1095767.html
* Organizations helping with the refugee crisis: http://captainofalltheships.tumblr.com/post/128790538169/an-updated-list-of-organizations-to-donate-to-help
* A list of LGBTQA Charities to donate money to instead of seeing the racist Stonewall Movie that decided to portray a black trans woman activist as a cis white man. http://awkward0w1.tumblr.com/post/126399233673
* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We desperately need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com
* "Gun violence taking alarming toll on children:"
* "Direct democracy eyed as way around NRA lobby on California gun laws:"
* "Donald Trump States a Fact:"
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* "Blacklash 2016: The Unblackening - Donald Trump vs. Jeb Bush on 9/11:"
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* "Blacklash 2016: The Unblackening - Hypothetical Heroics:"
Get More: Comedy Central,Funny Videos,Funny TV Shows
* My Rocky Horror as Queer History Rant:
Picture the Fall of 1986. The Plague was destroying everything and everyone good and beautiful and the bomb could kill us all any minute. My little sister ha been in the ICU of one hospital or another since February and my parents and Grandmother were doiwn in Baltimore with her so they could be there if she died before an organ turned up for transplant., so I was alone up North with a year of driving under my belt and a lover who had an older friend who was playing RiffRaff on south Street.
I was a teenager responsible enough that my parents trusted me to live alone for weeks at a time, driving myself to and from school and work. I was absolutely not allowed to drive around Philly at night. My Mother would have had a stroke if she knew I was smuggling a boy (he snuck out through his window old school style) out to a Midnight Showing on South Street, which was a traditionally counter culture place and very Punk rock and thus terrifying to her.
As irritating as it was to have an adult man repeatedly stick his hand in my crotch, the movie itself was like a window out of hell to someplace better. It was a promise that if my non-binary ass could hang on another couple years I could get the fuck out of a city where roving bands of cops used to group kick gay people for sport. If I could just hang on, somewhere there would be a place where my flamboyant ass could find people like me to be different with. Rocky horror said I wasn’t alone, that it would be okay if I could just hang on.
You can’t tell me that isn’t important and beautiful.
Yes, the language has evolved since then. Yes, it is problematic as hell around consent. Yes, there are some serious problems with some of the audience calls that were floating around in the ‘80′s and ‘90′s which is when I was going to see it. (I still watch it every year or so at home and do all the chants I remember, which turns out to be quite a lot, really. For some of them, I revert to older calls, because there are some things I will not say, period.) I am not saying this movie is perfect, just that this movie has provided people like me hope in the darkest depths of the horror that is high school for so many queer kids, and as a piece of our history, as art made by a non-binary person that touched so many lives, it is important.
* So yesterday, I had the delightfully textured black scarf. Seriously, I was handling it today and was startled by how soft and interesting it is to my hands). Today apparently a package came from my sister. (We found it after midnight). A complete Soap series DvD and a Mr. Roger's changing sweater mug, so a little odd, but useful. What I really desperately need is for the Alabama relatives to send me a check. Even ten dollars would solve the ebays fees mean I'm going to go negative on my bank account issue. Or if the late payer would actually pay me that would solve it. Sigh. There's been no card or letter from the Uncle that actually likes me yet and I sent him a Halloween card with letter earlier in the month. I hope he's all right. His health is always fragile and there is no guarantee word would reach here if he's had a bad turn. Apparently the Gothmas present opening starts on the 21st, not the twentieth. I'm tempted to start after midnight to make it a present a day starting with my Birthday.
* Two Lumps Do Let the Right One In: http://www.twolumps.net/d/20151019.html
* Delightful spoiler filled Crimson Peak squeeing: http://cleolinda.livejournal.com/1095767.html
* Organizations helping with the refugee crisis: http://captainofalltheships.tumblr.com/post/128790538169/an-updated-list-of-organizations-to-donate-to-help
* A list of LGBTQA Charities to donate money to instead of seeing the racist Stonewall Movie that decided to portray a black trans woman activist as a cis white man. http://awkward0w1.tumblr.com/post/126399233673
* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We desperately need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com
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