My subs have those barcode tattoos, but it’s not some kind of slavery play like it often is…
See we’re got a complicated poly free-use situation going on with lots of extended polycule members who may drop in and want to borrow a sub or three for a scene or a month.
So we designed our system around the non-kinky institution that most closely resembles our situation, where we’ve got a bunch of individual “resources” that need to be loaned out to verified patrons and tracked so we can tell where our items are, when they are supposed to be back, if they’re late to be returned, and put holds on them.
So we’re using a library management program.
You just go to the circulation desk, scan your polycule card, then the subs you want to check out. It’s a simple and efficient solution!
We’re still having some teething problems with late returns, though. And it’s trickier than we expected to fill out the item description pages. How exactly do you categorize a bisexual transmasc painslut with a thing for puppy play into the Dewey decimal system? Still, the work continues.
A little advice from someone studying extremist groups: if you’re in a social media environment where the daily ubiquitous message is that you have no hope of any kind of future and you can’t possibly achieve anything without a violent overthrow of society, you’re being radicalized, and not in the good way.
If the solution to your problems sounds like “we need a blank slate” it’s a lie. There are no blank slates, and the closest approximation people can generally imagine is “burn it all down and let God/fate/history sort it out”.
That’s not problem solving. It’s barely catharsis, in practice. It doesn’t just create more problems than it solves, it destroys more solutions than it creates.
Put the apocalypse down, and back away slowly.
Real solutions to complex, systemic problems are not so easily reduced to “us good, them evil; kill them.”
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Voting as Fire Extinguisher
When the haunted house catches fire: a moment of indecision.
The house was, after all, built on bones, and blood, and bad intentions.
Everyone who enters the house feels that overwhelming dread, the evil that perhaps only fire can purge.
are you saying that prodigy and arguably the greatest lyricist alive Kendrick Lamar of To Pimp A Butterfly fame was able to publicly humiliate pop rapper and child predator Drake? im shocked.
alright actually i was dismissing this because i dont really keep up with celebrity beef so most of it goes over my head but after listening kendrick did just release the most scathing diss track in rap history (not an exaggeration, i am speaking entirely non-hyperbolically when i say this).
and, to be clear since kendrick has released several diss tracks in a row over the course of the past few days, i am referring to Meet the Grahams, a song not directed at drake, but is instead Kendrick speaking slowly, softly, and sadly towards Drake’s family members over a somber piano about how him being a terrible person has fucked up their lives while also revealing some incredibly direct and personal sexual misconduct allegations in the portion addressed to his mother, Sandra.
this is, like, historically important to rap music and it’s kind of astonishing.
update:
i think it’s important to recognize Meet the Grahams not as a piece of a dunking campaign, but as a sincerely heartbreaking and terrifyingly stark glimpse into the life of someone who has had predatory, vile behaviors enabled and had enough power to ignore anyone trying to get to him. i don’t know that i’m capable of putting it into words, but this one feels a bit too important and sincere to treat as a “drake’s funeral” anthem, even in an ironic tone.
that is reserved for the OTHER diss track that he released in the SAME DAY which has a much bouncier and “point and laugh” tone, which will have you going “OOOOOOOOOH MY GOOOOOOOOOD” in the first 90 seconds, regardless of whether or not you know anything about the beef.
that’s this one:
okay FINAL thing i’ll say on this:
i think it’s extraordinarily impressive how sophisticated Kendrick’s execution of this PITCH PERFECT social execution has been, and i don’t even think it’s over. to quote youtuber Scru Face Jean here, “[Kendrick is] making it too culturally cool to not like Drake right now,” and like. i guess all this is to say, i think it’s important to emphasize how major this accomplishment is on a, like, societal level.
to put it into perspective, i saw somebody comment “the beef has finally breached containment” in the tags, and i think that an excellent visual metaphor for what Kendrick’s done is, very simply, ripples in the water. to emphasize his point, using his long experience in battle rap and his generational mind for putting societal issues into art (they’re going to be talking about him for decades after he’s dead, he’s that kind of important), he crafted a split multimedia diss LP with such precision that it’s created an explosion across mainstreams of media.
he reached into the brain of the zeitgeist and rewrote Drake’s public image into exactly what he wanted it to be. even if it’s all game (im pretty sure it’s definitely not, but if it is) it’s GOOD FUCKING GAME.
“why give a seal legs/external ears?” not a seal (though really obviously based off of one), he’s a speciating werewolf from a sea ice type habitat
“qallupilluit/selkie/other mythological creature?” no, bargain basement dnd werewolf reskin
“crabeater teeth!” yeah kinda, but actually there’s a whole group of seals with lobed teeth you should check them out! my favourite seals are leopard seals and the overall long sleek body shape (minus legs) was more inspired by them.
“i want to pet him” he’s a grown man who hates being touched. he has a phd and teeth like a greenwood saw blade
also I like it when my art has erotic and weird undertones too, yes this boy is in a bikini while his skeleton shows yes he wears his boobs proud yes I want to BITE him!!!!!!!!!!!!
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